To feel the weather is actually now making me a terrible parent

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Another day pouring with rain and resorting to tv or other long winded draining activities in the house. I’m so fed up. So miserable. It’s May now! I know complaining about it doesn’t make it better but I’ve just had enough. No fresh air again, just like the first 4 months of the year. It’s completely pouring down

Wait, I'm supposed to bath my kids too?

My kids (4y and 18m) love splashing in puddles in the rain. But we've done it so often lately that they are bored of it and don't want to go out in the pissing wet. I don't blame them.

Soft play expensive and you don't get a rest when your child is that young. There is only so much time a toddler will spend looking at books in the library. The park is no good in the rain as all-in-ones don't enable sliding, and the monkey bars are too slippery to grip. Waiting to go out the second it stops raining (for a grand total of 20 minutes) doesn't work when your child is having a nap or eating lunch.

I'm with you, OP. It sucks.

Just chuck them outside with a bottle of bubble bath. Job done.

This. I have an 18mo and we have spend 2 days indoors. I don't get this obsession that they need to be out all the time. It's raining non stop here and I rather deal with my baby indoors than being wet and muddy and battling through the rain to go where exactly?

I got fed up of the rain and booked a week in Mallorca. Here right now, it's great!

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Just do this op

@AllCatsAreAutistic

for bath time we typically tend to be naked and indoors. Where we live that’s how it usually works, at least.

Everyone getting high and mighty saying it’s only rain, wear appropriate clothing etc- yeah, we know. We’ve been doing it on and off for months. There’s not a puddle that hasn’t been splashed in.

This. R4 this morning was suggesting that this has been the wettest October-March in - certainly decades, maybe many decades.

I'd just wait for a break in the rain then get out for a quick walk. It makes a big difference.
Otherwise it's off to the supermarket, swimming pool, library, bus ride, grand parents, friend, playgroup, museum, b&q

Not quite sure why people say no such thing as bad weather

Our netball matches have all been cancelled tonight as it's not safe. No matter what clothes we were, and there's an amber rain warning

Oh but surely you see the value of getting out in the fresh air, you won’t MELT 😂 it’ll be positively JOLLY

@FanofLeaves I will remind myself when I'm lying soggy in a puddle with a broken ankle

This weather is dog shit and anyone who says otherwise is off their heads

Any play cafes or playgroups you can go to? I miss those days when I could go to one of those and we were both happy!

I read something that said the last 18 months have been the wettest on record.

OP I feel you - it’s pissing down here AGAIN, I have a toddler who wants to be in a summer dress and sandals and a baby with a cold, there’s nowhere I want to be less than jumping around in puddles like Peppa bloody Pig. It’s shit at the moment, made worse by the fact that it’s nearly June and it should be nicer - I can tolerate rainy windy shitty weather in winter but in almost summer I feel SAD. It’s fine though because only boring people get bored 🙃

About to walk home in the pissing rain for thirty min, can’t wait to count all the snails 🐌 😃😃😃😃

I rather suspect your version of "loads of sunshine" is different to mine!

Aren't there just. I don't live in the UK. I couldn't live in the UK, simply because of the weather. Here we've had five cloudy days, with rain on two or three of them. I can't remember when we last had a spell of such dull/wet weather. Last week I went out for a walk and saw someone watering their lawn, and in the park they were watering the gardens - and it's nearly winter.

Some of these ideas for spending a rainy day are just mad. If it rains all day here I don't leave the house if I don't have to - why would I expect a child to want to be out playing in the rain if I wouldn't want to do it myself.

I suppose I almost have to admire Brits in their valiant attempts to enjoy what appears to have been a particularly wet and miserable many months!

What a patronising post.

No more patronising than most of the ridiculous posts on here, telling OP that she should be ENJOYING trying to entertain her young child in the rain, bringing him/her up to think that rain is the most marvellous thing, and that one or two days of sunshine should be all anyone should expect, and that it makes up for months of miserable weather.

If you didn't like my post then good, it's made up for all the patronising posts on MN about any other country in the world which isn't the wonderful UK 😂

Wow are you being serious. What do you expect to happen?

I waited all day for a break in the rain (not to take a toddler out thank goodness I’m past that stage) to go and post a card.

Genuinely it didn’t come. It’s been pissing it down all day. The card was wet just going from bag to postbox!

Sympathies OP, 16 months is a hard age to entertain indoors. When they turn 2 they start to busy themselves for hours with play doh or hot wheels or stickers or whatever but a 16 month old will just play with those things for a minute or two before eating them.

Most people don't take their children to parks in the pissing rain with a north wind blowing, even if they have got a puddlesuit on. That's why parks and playgrounds are all empty.

'Wait, I'm supposed to bath my kids too?'

Take a bottle of Matey out into the rain and kill two birds with one stone

Or maybe my weather has been different to your friends 😮

I went for a walk this evening. It took 45 minutes. I am blessed as it was the only time it stopped raining all day. And I saw some deer.

DS's school trousers came home in a bag. I had to rinse them under the water butt they were so caked in mud.

I am glad I don't have a toddler to entertain.