To think I am the worst mother ever ...please come judge me

[KIMItheThreadSlayer]

and feel free to throw rotten fruit and veg.

Despite coating DS2 (age 8) in factor 50 sun block, and getting him to put on a T-shirt after swimming he now has a very red back I have now coated him in after sun and he says it is not hurting but I feel so guilty.

Sun block is in date, water proof, we were only out 4 hours and we are in Cornwall not Jamaica, and I did re-apply it.

Sits in stocks waiting for tomatoes

Put the aftersun in the fridge, will have a good cooling effect if he is still sore.

Bring those tomatoes over here: I have 3 dc's and yet don't not a single bottle of sun cream in the house.

The only reason my dc's haven't been burned to a crisp this summer is because they're dark skinned to start with - put them out in the sun for 20 minutes in the middle of the day and they immediately turn mahogany (even my middle dc, who is blond). I do feel bad about not creaming them up anyway - I know even dark skinned people can get sun damage to their skin.

He is much better now I think he might even have forgiven me

Just think how bad the sunburn would have been if you had not put on any cream?

Its unfortunate, but these things happen.