Paola Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 It was bloomin freezing this morning. First time in ages that the windscreen was covered in ice. Wrapped kids (sorry Lesley) up well, apart from gloves Went out later and brought some The car said that it was 1 While waiting for the children to be let in I was horrified to see so many children being brought to school with no jackets, just school polo shirt and jumper. Grrrrrrrrr That sort of thing drives me mad Oooo while I am on a roll The school is off a road that has a level crossing. It can be a pain sometimes if you get stuck. Anyway OH picked the girls up this week to over hear a mother saying to her friend how the barriers hit the back of her car because she was not prepared to wait Is it worth risking yours, your children’s and other people’s life’s for? Grrrrrrrr Should I say anything to the school? OH said that it is none of my business Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 Anyway OH picked the girls up this week to over hear a mother saying to her friend how the barriers hit the back of her car because she was not prepared to wait Is it worth risking yours, your children’s and other people’s life’s for? Grrrrrrrr Should I say anything to the school? OH said that it is none of my business Some people are not fit to have children are they! I don't suppose the school can do anymore than advise. Once the children are off the premises and in the care of their parents, it is out of the schools hands. Lets hope it did some expensive damage to her car. That would probably bother someone like that more than having an injured child. I can well understand your need to "rant" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 People are so stupid The school don't have anything to do with this, but the police might Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen & co. Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 Some people make you wonder what goes on in their heads don't they karen x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paola Posted October 19, 2007 Author Share Posted October 19, 2007 I thought that if I said something to the school then they might do some sort of railway safety lessons for the children, which in turn might filter through to the parents. What sort of hope do the children have when they have parents setting that sort of example Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 My son is still going to school without a coat. He is a very warm person and doesn't want one. He will take one the minute he thinks he needs it. (And I am not a 'leave-it-up-to-him mother! I always suggest he might need a coat and occasionally he will put one in his bag in case he needs it!) When he was in reception, he wore shorts all through December. I had several parents and assistants asking me if he was cold like that. Come January, he was in long trousers because it was really cold by then, but before he didn't need them. What he really complained about was the over-heated classrooms and he still prefers to underdress because of the heat he has to sit in most of the day. If I was going to rant it would be about over-heating. Such a waste of money and exceedingly unhealthy too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 Cleo is like that too Ginette. I say take a sweat shirt, & she ties it around her waist & walks to the bus in shirtsleeves & a short skirt,no socks or tights...........at 8am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 I don't feel at all worried about DS, just worried about what other mothers will think of me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 My boys always wore shorts unless there was snow on the ground. They were always too hot at school too. My daughter wouldn't wear tights in winter for the same reason. The were used to being in a draughty old house with uncertain heating and always complained bitterly about the stifling classrooms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 It's my perennial complaint! Shopping is a nightmare in the winter because all the stores are overheated. We're all wrapped up warm against the cold and then can't really shop because we have to carry our coats, hats, gloves etc - and still feel too hot! In the winter, I can't browse, I have to be in and out or I'm just uncomfortably hot. Egluntine, that is how we all are, except DD3 who feels the cold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted October 20, 2007 Share Posted October 20, 2007 My Dan is like that! He always complains he's too hot He's the most active and skinny of the boys. It's always a battle to get him to wear coats and jumpers! Maybe I should do as he says. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 20, 2007 Share Posted October 20, 2007 I only ever shop at malls pretty much for that reason. I can dash into the mall from the car park without a coat and then shop in comfort. James doesn't much like wearing a coat cos he's usually too hot - he wears it to schoola and then ditches it. He is always coming out without it, I can see him refusing to wear it when he is older. He is too active to feel cold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen & co. Posted October 20, 2007 Share Posted October 20, 2007 I don't feel at all worried about DS, just worried about what other mothers will think of me! Bit like that here Ginette Both my boys only ever wore shorts all year at primary out of choice, and on numerous occasions I would hear parents tut at me 'for letting that little boy out in this cold weather in shorts' When my oldest had to wear long trousers for high school, his exzema flared up on his knees, and starts to improve during the hols, when he now wears 3/4 most of the time, and he's 15 now I did think about wearing a sandwich board saying "I don't force them to wear shorts" karen x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paola Posted October 20, 2007 Author Share Posted October 20, 2007 Oh know what have I started For the first 21 years of my life I lived in a beautiful Victorian flat with very tall high ceilings, huge sash windows and no central heating. We only had heating in the lounge (electric fire) and hall (calor gas heater). I froze when I played in my room. I also remember playing outside at school and really feeling the cold. I think that is why I am so funny about making sure little uns are kept warm. Having said that my youngest is a real hot bod. When he was born, they dressed him and wrapped him up as they always do and the poor thing started to sweat within minutes. I know when it will be really cold I will only need to put his coat on and not loads of layers underneath. I do hope that I did not come across as being judgemental Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen & co. Posted October 20, 2007 Share Posted October 20, 2007 I do hope that I did not come across as being judgemental Not at all it's each to their own IMHO karen x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted October 20, 2007 Share Posted October 20, 2007 I completely agree about the cold weather/coat thing Paola and I dont even have any kids!! There are some children who are the grandchildren of the people who live opposite us, they come visiting dressed like its summer with sandals/t shirts etc - must be freezing!! Another thing that bugs me about them is on a sunday after their sunday lunch (yes im a nosey neighbour!! ) they go for a cycle ride - (grandmother and the 4 grandchildren) and they NEVER wear cycle hemlets this REALLY annoys me as the kiddies are small and I think everyone should wear helmets cycling. Last weekend she kitted them out with flourescent yellow bibs....I said to my husband as I gawped out the window "what is the point wearing bright bibs but NO helmet"....... the mind boggles........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted October 20, 2007 Share Posted October 20, 2007 Let's hope they are all carrying Donor Cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura & CTB Posted October 20, 2007 Share Posted October 20, 2007 It's the same her - when I'm all dressed up in jumper, scarf, furry jacket, hat and gloves one and only son is still in a t shirt I've given up worrying now he's 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 I have no problem with older children who are warm little bods - mine were and so are Lauren and Jake. What really annoys me though is little ones in pushchairs with no gloves or hats They're not moving around enough to keep warm and often look perished. I know they don't like keeping them on and think it's fun to throw gloves away - but we all know the answer to that one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paola Posted October 21, 2007 Author Share Posted October 21, 2007 I have no problem with older children who are warm little bods - mine were and so are Lauren and Jake. What really annoys me though is little ones in pushchairs with no gloves or hats They're not moving around enough to keep warm and often look perished. I know they don't like keeping them on and think it's fun to throw gloves away - but we all know the answer to that one It was a tot in her pushchair in nothing but a thin tracksuit that got me thinking about this in the first place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 I have no problem with older children who are warm little bods - mine were and so are Lauren and Jake. What really annoys me though is little ones in pushchairs with no gloves or hats They're not moving around enough to keep warm and often look perished. I know they don't like keeping them on and think it's fun to throw gloves away - but we all know the answer to that one I remember being mortified years ago when my mother went up to a young girl and not exactly told her off....but had a word with her about the fact that her baby was out with no hat, gloves or blanket in a pushchair on a cold day....explaining about babies losing a lot of heat from their head....This baby was grey and silent. The girl had no idea and was really upset because no one had pointed this out to her before. She actually thanked my mother! It could have gone the other way. She could have head butted her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 I know what you mean about babies in prams. It's a pet hate of mine. But hard to know whether or not to say anything isn't it? As you say Egluntine - could just as easily have been a headbutt. I run a toddler group and try to keep an eye out for the young mums and what the babes are wearing. I ply them with tea and toast all morning then they don't seem to mind when I talk to them about their babies! Some of them really don't have a clue, bless'em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 I'm glad you are helping them out Snowy - and Egluntine's mother.......... but whatever happened to good old fashioned common sense! I know I sound like a Grumpy Old Woman........ but I was a mother at just 17 and lived in a caravan which had ice on the inside! I had no car and no telephone, lived 5 miles fro a town and walked miles - always with my two littlies well wrapped up. I'd made my mother a very young grandmother and she worked full-time, so I just had to get on with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Yes but they don't do GCSEs in common sense do they Lesley? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate in NZ Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Yes but they don't do GCSEs in common sense do they Lesley? I do think that some of the youngsters could do with it . My son rarely wears anything warm, as a toddler and in primary school we did battle to wrap him up warm, and I won , but he's still the same now..... all winter long off to school in cotton shirt and blazer . Won't wear a jacket, nor a jumper or a sweatshirt, and when I suggested a vest . I did try and explain that a white t-shirt would work perfectly well under his shirt, but I think the word vest conjured up images he wasn't happy with . He's quite old enough now to suffer if he's daft enough too, but sometimes just looking at him makes me shiver Daughter's the other extreme though, start of September we bought her a new (highly fashionable) coat, she's worn it to school, over her shirt and school sweatshirt in quite warm weather. Actually complained of being too hot at times............. but she won't take the darned thing off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...