Hat hatred!!

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DS now nearly 10mo has a loathing of anything on his head....including hood on towel/top/jumper, wooly hats, sunhats...you name it. With the weather being like it has been at the moment I've tried to keep his head covered....but it is impossible. Is there a trick to this? Any words of wisdom?
Or alternatively would factor 50 suncream rubbed into his head be ok? Which i did last weekend. He has a bit of hair....mainly round back of head....but its very fair. WWYD?

I will be watching this thread closely!! Almost 7mo DD won't wear her summer hat. She wore her winter hat but then she wore one almost all the time from birth. She's now been without hat for about a month and with the weather getting warmer I tried the summer hat. She mainly gets frustrated by it or wants to eat it. I have sewn some thin elastic to it and it does delay her getting it off her head but only by about 5 seconds! I am hoping that me repeatedly putting it on will sink in, either that or she'll think it's a game! I asked my mum what she did with us and she laughed and said picked it up, it's what babies do!

DS was an October baby, he did the same - wore a winter hat during his first winter, had a few weeks off and then totally rejected his summer hat. This was last year. I couldn't find a way to keep it on, so I just kept him in the shade as much as possible, still trying with the hat on a daily basis. No hats through the winter just gone, and then miraculously he has just accepted his summer hat and even goes to look for it himself now - he wore it during breakfast this morning (we were inside).

Sorry, that's of no immediate help to you, but just wanted to let you know that it might get better next year when it will be (even) harder to keep your LOs in the shade!

I always get the ones with the Velcro fasteners under the chin

DS, 22 months was a hat resister. What helped was wear a hat myself and make a big deal of it. He is now happy to wear a hat, just like me!

Soon as mine could move her arms, hats were tossed into the road.

I used suncream on the head and kept in buggy with hood up and light blanket draped over to give more shade. And just keep in shade as much as possible in weather like this.

Only trouble with suncream on head is that you have to wash their hair every night. But mine only had a scraping so it wasn't a problem.

H&M have got some for about £2.50 that tie under the chin. DD had rejected all others but seems happy with these. Also one of them is actually stretchy cap with a headscarf attached, looks v cute and might not get in the way of peripheral vision like a hat

DS is nearly 9 month and thinks the 'put hat on pull it off game' is fabulous. If his stamina for this is anything to go by he will run ultra marathons and succeed in any chosen field. The only way his hat stayed on for more that 10 seconds was at the park when he was eating inappropriate flora and fauna.

I found the ones with straps only facilitated self-strangulation.

And to think he is meant to wear glasses too...

I did the suncream in the hair approach - although this made me realise just quite how much hair he now has (although not enough to prevent the sun on his scalp!)

Try to make the association sink in between hat, sunscreen and going outside to do exciting things. This is what got my DS wearing a hat (that, and the fact that his Australian cousins wear them religiously.)

Thanks ladies.
I'll try the association thing...but he may be too young to understand just yet. I've got one which is sort of bandana style and is elasticated round the back...but it's getting a bit too small for him and I can't find any like it (only bigger) in the shops at the mo? But this one is good because once I have got it on he can't see it/feel it to much. So I just have to distract him once its on his head.
I'll try and get something sorted before the next heatwave....he'll probably be 21 by then anyway.