To think that letting a child get bad sunburn is child abuse?

[laura032004]

Because if you let them burn themselves with say boiling water, eyebrows would be raised. I hate to see kids on the beach (abroad) with bright red shoulders and faces. It's easy enough to get sunsuits and suncream these days, so why don't people use them properly?

I see that I have not done it correctly-however it seems to work.

I was hoping that someone was going to comment on my link-I really don't know what to think about it-anyone think that she is right?

I have heard somewhere that sun creams may be more harmful than covering up (which is pretty commonsense really) but she doesn't actually cite any science re them being actively harmful, does she? And I guess the big question would be, are they more harmful than being burnt?

'It?s time we all woke up and realised that skin cancer isn?t CAUSED by the sun but by what we ingest?whether that ingestion is via the skin through sunscreen poisons or internally via processed foods and OUT of the skin.'

The above is a quote from her blog-she is very definite about it.

She's barking. And understands nothing about science if she thinks skin cancer has nothing to do with the sun. Not only that, she's bloody dangerous if people believe her twaddle.

Next she'll be telling us that it's not smoking that causes lung cancer, it's repressed memories of some such rubbish.

so the correlation between te tinning ozone layer over Aus and NZ and te increase in skin cancer in te European population is due to wat tey eat So why do people get skin cancers on the areas of their bodies that are most commonly exposed to the sun - why wouldn't it be just as common on the bits that rarely see the sun like your bum?

I think that I will stick to the sunscreen because it is difficult to stay out of the sun and teenagers want to look 'cool', not cover up. The sunscreens definitely work because my DS had a day at the beach with friends a couple of years ago and wouldn't take his top off afterwards. In the end he showed me the problem-he had put the cream on his hands and patted them on his chest without rubbing it in, he had white hand marks and the rest of his skin was red!
I was just being devil's advocate with the article-no agreement with it yet.

THanks for linking to that site with the UV-protection swimsuits Laura. I have just been looking at the UV-Swimsuits for girls with the matching hats and I am thinking of getting that for dd. Have never seen a dc wearing anything like that before. Wonder why they didn't make them long-sleeved and long-legged but maybe they would just have been too hot. Just seems to me you may as well go on and protect the lower arm and lower legs too

Does anyone's dc wear this type of thing on holiday?

I think that the problem is that you can get them to wear that sort of swimsuit when they are little but not when they are old enough to want to be stylish.