At what point do you give up, shrug your shoulders and let them get on with not wearing coats in this weather?

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My dd (12.6) and her best friend (13 in a few days) have just gone shopping in town. Both wearing vest style tops, waterfall thin cardigan things, big scarf and knee-length boots. Both declined my advice to put on coats. Its freezing with howling gales and rain. Gah I wish she was 6 again with cutsey plaits and me choosing her clothes. Is it always like this?

There are places in Alaska where you don't step out the door in winter without wearing loads over your nose; to breathe the air directly would freeze your lungs instantly (quick death). So I can understand DandyDan's heart attack argument in that context.

I give mine 2 x slow release 500 vit C ,and also zinc .
PFB - moi ?

DD 14 actually asked to have money to buy a coat for school as she was cold hence gave her money, she bought something totally useless in the winter months, a canvass/denim type coat, which I am sure did not cost £20.00 as it came from Primark, She certainly will not be going to get anymore money to buy another one.

LOL I got screwed out of £25 too for a coat for school which is not weather proof and doesn't fit properly over her blazer. Still it was better than the £45 she originally wanted.

I've given up fighting on this one. My 9yr old is the same. At least he will now wear his leather jacket which is slightly better than nothing.

That said, I drove past his school today and there was another child in his year with just a T-shirt on. It was 0 degrees on my car thermometer so i guess we're far from alone on this one!

Look, my DH is 36 years old and his mum still valiantly tries and fails to get him to wear a coat.

He will quite happily go out in a blizzard wearing a t-shirt and jeans. I have collected him from the station in the past and he's standing outside in the snow, clothes and hair frozen like cardboard.

He honestly cannot see what the fuss is about. He will just about tolerate wearing a long sleeved t-shirt in the winter to make me and his mother feel better.