NO Coat

[poplartree]

When I first come across Mumsnet, we were having really bad weather and there was a discussion on MN about children not dressed for the weather. Some people said their children do not wear coats.

My DD is six, seven in April and I constantly battled her to keep her coat, jumpers and shoes on. Now I have given up, most of yesterday afternoon I just let her play out in temperatures that reached a high of 3C dressed in a short sleeved blouse, trousers and white socks, no shoes, no jumpers, no coat!

However what do you parents do when it is raining, do you just let them get wet, do you change their clothes, if so do you carry spare ones.

my only advice - dark socks

carry a coat if you can be arsed

Thanks BoysAreLikeDogs, but I can't, I think buy her a couple of rain ponchos, if she want to wear them fine, if not fine too

I have Vanish for her white socks, doesn't always et the soles white again but it does not matter, they will soon be dirty again anyway.

It also depends how active your DD is too. DS is an absolute rocket with his energy and he never seems to feel the cold. I always make sure I carry a coat with me for him as I never know when he's going to want it, but then, I generally carry a rucksack with me anyway. In warmer weather, I'll take a kagoul with us as it has it's own wee pouch.

Thanks Cymar when playing out she is active when out shopping not so much.

Went to the supermarket yesterday and she was the only one in a short sleeved shirt, although there were other girls in skirts.

Not really a forum for it but as I am posting i thought I ask anyway

Has anyone tried the washing powder the TV ad goes - it is really hard to get white socks clean. Forget the name

Is it not the mother's job to decide whether the child ahould be wearing a coat ? And if so, make the child wear it ?
I don't understand parents who say their child refuses to wear a coat ! Thats why children have parents - because they are too young to make sensible decisions - and the parent is supposed to make them for them !

But if she is comfortable without a coat and jumper should she be wearing a coat?

My daughter never seems to feel the cold outside. At nursery they bundled her into her coat and she ended up in an ambulance after a febrile convulsion in the playground. After that I've always let her decide, she's 5 now and rarely wears a coat. I carry one just in case. I don't really understand Davsmum's pov, just because they are young, does that make them incapable of knowing when they are cold? I think we forget that active children are warmer than us mums who are stood around - How many joggers do you see wearing thick coats, hat and gloves? You don't, because activity makes you warm.

The worst that ca happpen is that they get a bit cold!

I think it depends on the age of the child. Babies and young toddlers, yes of course it's the parent's responsibility to make sure they wear a coat if necessary. But after 3.5/4....I don't see the point of the battle. All people feel hot/cold differently. If a child refuses to wear a coat, I would let them realise the consequences - they get cold (or not!).

My youngest dd is just 4 and she's never cold. If we come out of nursery and it's sunny and she doesn't want to wear her coat, she doesn't! She'll soon want to put it on if she gets cold, which is hardly ever!

Some kids just don't feel the cold.

I never could understand it when people battle to get the children to wear coats if they don't want to (assuming said child is beyond the age of toddler irrationality).

MIL is always because DS1 rarely wears a coat, and wore shorts to school throughout the winter (even in the snow).

But if you are going far from home, always advisable to bring something warm with you, in case there is a change of mind!