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Stripping toddler

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DitaVonCheese · 26/05/2011 15:23

DD is 2.5 and is currently taking all her clothes off because she's "boiling". The heating isn't on, she doesn't seem to have a temperature. Okay, now naked. I have no problems with her being nude and am famous in my family for spending most of my formative years naked Blush so I know it's fairly normal toddler behaviour. I'm just worried about her being COLD! Going to see if I can at least persuade her to wrap herself in a blanket ... Any other tips?!

Should I go and put the heating on?!

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monkoray · 26/05/2011 17:49

Dita your post made me smile.
Why don't you strip down to your undies and see how cold you are. If you start getting cold then DD probably is to and you could put the heating on.

DitaVonCheese · 26/05/2011 20:22

Thing is, I was cool if not outright chilly in my two layers (plus 32 weeks pg, so taking my clothes on and off takes ages Wink). She spent the next half hour on the sofa on an old towel and under a fleecy blanket watching Charlie & Lola on Youtube, then we did some drawing, during which she was intermittently clothed.

I'm really just wondering if I should fight harder to get her to keep her kit on or whether the fact she can't feel the cold is a boon rather than something I should worry about. (Growing up in the north of England in a drafty house, I certainly found my warm blood very helpful.) We can't really afford to put the heating on unnecessarily!

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MoonFaceMamaaaaargh · 27/05/2011 10:20

Dita my ds is only 15m but already prefers to be nekid. He spends alot of the morning and evening nude, i dress him for bed when he falls asleep but then he often wakes up hot to the touch so it often comes off again.

He never seems cold even though i think he might be (i'm pg too). I'm beinging to wonder if we partly "learn" that we feel cold ie's it's modeled by adults. Obviously we do feel it, but i wonder if our natural tolerance for it might be greater than we think? Whatever...

Anyway, i mostly let him get on with it. He has a snuggley poncho i sometimes sneak on to his shoulders as a compromise, maybe that world work for your dd?

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