To think it is far too cold for a toddler to be sat in a stroller with no shoes or socks on?

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Okay so I'm being a judgey mare but in town I saw a toddler in a pushchair with bare feet. Admittedly she didn't seem phased by fact but it was freezing! My own pfb was nicely cooking snug in his cosy toes and this poor child must have been frozen. Brrrrrrrrrr!

Well, considering most toddlers I know remove their own shoes and socks, I doubt the child started that way!

i bet he had shoes and socks but wouldnt wear them!

Have you ever had a toddler that won't keep shoes and socks on ?

ah - well my DS would happily leave the house without his coat/hat/gloves etc

or he will rip them off at the first chance he gets

so, yes it is far too cold but there was probably an epic battle of wills which preceded it

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Oh ladies duct tape works a treat at keeping socks on! I just got that shudder that I get when I see teeny boppers in their itsy bitsy outfits in sub zero temperatures!

it is cold and i put my ds in buggy kaiser footmuff coccn with socks and shoes on and i can guarantee by time we get to school the shoes and sock are off and his bare tootsies are poking out of the top of the cosy toes like some escape artist.

a huge number of children with ASD have issues with shoes and socks.

My DD gets terrible eczema on her hands if they get cold, and she even cries when her hands get cold...but she will NOT keep gloves on, I couldn't actually GET anywhere if I tried to keep them on as I would have to stop every minute and put them back on!!

So...YABU..

my ds1 refuses to wear anything in the house except t-shirt atm
and it is NOT warm in here

Aah yes the whole glove/mittens thing! Ds won't keep mittens on. He sucks them to death then pulls them off with great determination! Often wonder why manufacturers don't make them to come up to their elbows so they are harder to get off!

Sorry, you're judgey. You know nothing about the woman or the child or the length of time for which they were without their socks.

A woman came up to the street to my DH a few days ago saying: "Cold feet! Cold feet!" and motioning at DD's bare feet.

What she doesn't know is that DH had spent more than one hour, literally, putting DD's socks on, then she throws them off, then he puts them on again etc. etc. All the way to Sainsburys and back. When she chucked them off again at the end of the road, he thought "sod it, I'll just dash home -that'll be quicker". So this old bat doesn't have a clue what she is talking about and can just bugger off frankly.

DD now has an all-in-one starfish suit, in which she lies completely immobilised, and cannot find her hands still less her feet. As you can imagine, that's popular.

ShelleyLou's DS (just turned 2) refused to keep his shoes and socks on when we went to watch the town Christmas lights being switched on. It was bloody FREEZING, but still he wouldn't - and iirc she gave up in the end for a while

I remember some old bat lady telling me in the middle of August that my charges feet were too cold and he would probably get pnuemonia.

As I said the toddler wasn't at all bothered so I can imagine had probably won the battle of the socks! I just felt cold for them!

personally think babies/toddler should have socks/shoes on if outside and cold - summer couldnt care if they didnt

also think hats should be worn if very cold - the 2 places heat is lost out of is feet and head

mine run around inside barefeet, on stone floors

im in slippers!!

I used to have a buggy sleeping bag for my DC's. It was brilliant. They couldn't escape it and although they still took shoes and socks off, feet were still covered.

Only went up to about 3 yrs old though, but by htat time mine had stopped removing socks outside.

pmsl

you have a child who will STAY in a cosytoes?

make the most of it while it lasts!

and blonde, well, I agree with you

sadly my children don't

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What is a cosytoes?

The one I had had a drawstring at the neck, so they really couldn't escape. It was a bit like a straightjacket really.

Totally agree with pagwatch, lots of toddlers have massive problems with shoes and socks.

Thankfully both my DCs went through this stage during the summer months.

So yes i do think YABU

my ds1 was like this and i used to get hateful looks...i was all snug as a bug and he was bare footed, rumpled cosytoes, no hat, no gloves and suffering from mild asphyxiation from removing his scarf....i eventually twigged to putting him in thick tights

as he is now 4.5 he does as he is told and is usually warmly wrapped up but yep some little ones are nudists...i remember the following summer it was full nudity and wellies.....for the whole summer