toddlers and sun hats do yours wear one....

[mum2sam]

mine blankly refuses. Ive tried and ive tried but he continues to pull it off. Hes got alot hair and is well due a haircut but as it protects his head ive left it as it is so it protects his head. It just annoyed me the other day when this women made a comment about him not wearing one. Ive make sure he drinks loads, wears sun cream and weve not even been out til late afternoon when its cooler.

mine refuses for me too, but nursery and cm manage to persuade her. probabaly because other children wearing them too. i don't worry too much because she has loads of hair. ignore other parents.

Yes both of mine have always worn a hat. They are 5 and 2.

Tell him David Beckham/Batman/Fireman Sam always wears one when it's this sunny

Batman doesn't really need a sun hat though.

Well he might on his hols ...
OK, point taken! I'm off to Gotham City

no Mine are 15 mnths and nothing works. I'm tempted by superglue! They jsut chuck them into the paddlign pools or whatever, they absoluitely loath hats. dd and ds1 weat them, but they won't copy them.

DS will willing wear a hat and he is 2.9yrs..however it is 7mth dd I have problems with as she yanks them off and throws them.

yes but until recently DS2 needed some major distraction while you put it on!

ds is usually good at wearing his hat but on the occasions that he has taken it off and refused to put it on again I have had success in getting him to wear his dad's sunhat!! It falls down over his eyes but he enjoys dressing up so thinks it's hilarious. Have you tried wearing a hat yourself as they often like to copy at this age?

Yes. I've always insisted that DD wears one unless she is in full shade because she is a very pale skinned, blue eyed fine-haired red-head, the worst combo for burning. She wears it in the paddling pool at home or the pool/sea on holiday, too.

I have the opposite problem with DS (2.1) he won't take his off - he has sweat pouring down him sometimes but insists on wearing his hat indoors, in the car etc. and has masses of hair so it gets all wet and tangled.

He loves dressing up type hats etc too though.

great name, Betty!

Her old one was wayyyyyyyyyyy better, ninah. I'm still mourning the loss of that one, Betty

-I prefer this one !

oh no
I shall be racking what's left of my brains, now
Is the yyyy a clue
I've been off here too long

WHO are you???!!!

I think DSs usually wore them and BabyDragon (5 monts) seems happy enough to wear one at the moment.

I wasn't anyone you'd probably recognise TBH -just had a name that conjured odd images in peoples minds

oh OK! well, like this one

It made me pmsl whenever I read it.

I'll put you out of your misery -it was Hornbag (if you ever watched Kath and Kim you'll understand).

!

last summer the only hat dd3, age 15 months, would wear was her bike helmet. she did look a bit weird on the beach but it did the job.

this year she will wear a normal sunhat, though she's not wild about them.

DD wears a hat daily. She does take it on and off all the time, but does have a bit of a hat fetish (and a sock fetish too) insisting on wearing 1 or sometimes 2 hats indoors.
She's been wearing a hat daily since she was born so is quite used to it now (we live in Oz where everyone wears hats all the time)

all the time - but here in AUs it is manadtory when they are in kindy/day care or school - no hat no play.

I found with dd1 who really was not a hat lover - get a larger hat that still shaded her face but it did not feel like it was on iyswim - that worked as well as jsut perservering - hat on, hat on etc when they chuck it.

Even the toddler got over her aversion to hats - again a looser fitting one with a chin strap seems to do the job.

They ask to put them on. Guess the fact that they wear them all year round means it has become second nature to them