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!

Tights would surely confound the sock removers? That said I can quite see that for the sake of a couple of minutes you wouldn't bother. My DS gave up escaping the buggysnuggle when I tied it up high and zipped it up to his armpits! In combination with a thick coat so he can't get at his armpits it works wonders . I need a tights equivalent for gloves though. I can't make him keep them on and his poor fingers get all red with the cold.

My cousin's kids rush out into the snow in bare feet and play until they're blue.

lol I remember an identical thread from last winter, or was it the winter before?

This is why I make my boy wear woolly tights.

DD2 can stretch the foot of tights so that it is at least 20cm beyond the end of her toes. With her teeth, so it's all soggy, cold and disgusting.

She'd be better off in bare feet.

They are not going to die if they get a bit chilly. They are also not going to melt if they get a bit wet, or dissolve if they get a bit muddy.

What do people do in countries that get seriously cold? I mean you couldn't take a toddler out in -20C with bare feet or fingers?

If you can suggest a way that I can make my toddler keep on her socks/shoes/hats/blankets/gloves/coats. Then IU will make sure that sh eis warm and snug everytime I leave the house.

omg - my dd3 will not wear shoes and so I imagine if I lived in the UK where it does get very cold I would be judged by people who have nothing better to do with their time.

Pagwatch- Love it just love it. What did she do?

thebrain dd2 can remove her tights while sitting in her buggy it takes her longer than with socks but she can still do it, tights under trousers work but she screams hysterically when she realises that she cannot get them off.

The whoever was pushing the buggy was probably oblivious to the fact that the child had lobbed the shoes and socks out.

My children (6 yo) still go around in bare feet all the time. I don't know where they got that idea from (MadamDeathstare hides her own bare feet under desk chair).

its a tricky one, I think you cant really judge as we dont know the full facts.

I had to take my lo with a temp of over 40 to primary care one night and I had him in his pjyamas and put a dressing gown on him, there was ice on the floor it was that cold, but the doctor told me not to put the d/gown back on him, it was freezing, he said you want to get his temp down.

perhaps the lo was poorly.

Also like pagwatch said my ds hates having his shoes on (asd) he has a ritual of taking his shoes and socks off wherever we go, even supermarkets and hes 4. Just sits in middle of Asda and takes them off

I must be the fucking messiah .

Eeee I hope not with that language

Today, I took th etwins out for first time in their brand new snowsuits and it s the first time we have not had shoe/sock/mitten removal issues. 1-0 to me, I reckon!

Was it me you saw? I get judgey looks all the time, but there isn't much I can do about it.

Ds is 20mths, and takes great delight in removing his shoes and socks and lobbing them onto the pavement with a little cry of "wooooo!". He is oblivious to cold. He can also remove said shoes and socks in under 30 seconds. How do you suggest I get anything done if I spend my entire journey round the shops replacing his shoes? He'll learn eventually, but until then, please stop judging random strangers, because toddlers can be annoying despite your best efforts!

YABU.

wonders how many hats/socks we have lost off the pushchair...sunhats too...
Gloves never stay on long enough to get out the house in the first place.

i reckon, if she had no shoes or socks on, that it was her decision

dd wanted to wear her dress in bed last night

whaddaya do?

Try shoo shoos - ds is always losing his socks but I bought him some shoo shoos and so far he hasn't managed to get them off!
I don't have a cosy toes I have a couple of thick blankets but always end up running them over with the buggy when ds pulls it off!!

I am sure some kids are not dressed by their parents, that would make me upset to see

However I suspect everyone is right
She took them off herself

mine have both done this from the word go. I nearly lamped an old lady one time for tutting at me.

It really annoys me when you get looks from other people in the street because they disapprove of the way your child is dressed/behaving.

99% of parents will have had some struggle with their child constantly taking shoes and socks off and throwing them out the pushchair. It is too cold but short of superglueing the garments to the child's body, there's not a lot you can do!

My DS used to refuse to sleep under a blanket for months. He would get cold at night - all we could do is make sure his room was warm. Eventually he discovered the benefit of snuggling up underneath the blanket. However he still insists on getting rid of the shoes and socks when we are out and about.

I refuse to enter into a battle with him. I'll tell him his feet will get very cold and that it would be a better idea to keep them on, but until he realises this himself there's no point in fighting with him.

And an imaginary two fingers up to all those people who stare at me in the street with disapproving looks. I'd love to see them try!

Rant over.

well OP would have thought me the most neglectful mother on the school run last week. Was pouing with raind and dd2 was in buggy. When we left the house we had a raincover,umbrella, hat and coat on..by time I was at the school she had broken the raincover so it was completely useless, refused to have her hood up, hat on or umbrella and was screaming while I tried to hold brollie over her.

dd is quadraplegic and still manages to remove socks hat and gloves. Its a toddler super power