“Mom/Dad says it’s too cold to play outside right now” .. what temperatures do you allow kids out to play?

[Anonymous]

Such little snowflakes can’t play in 40 degree weather. SAD!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Such little snowflakes can’t play in 40 degree weather. SAD!

Maybe ask yourself why you feel the need to constantly send your children outside away from you? I work at an ES, so I know exactly which kids are sent outside to “go play” away from Mom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whatever temperature they want to go out in. If they're cold they'll come inside.

+1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Such little snowflakes can’t play in 40 degree weather. SAD!

Is that you donnie? Picking on little kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Such little snowflakes can’t play in 40 degree weather. SAD!

Maybe ask yourself why you feel the need to constantly send your children outside away from you? I work at an ES, so I know exactly which kids are sent outside to “go play” away from Mom.

You do realize that the majority of adults you work with and interact with played “outside away from mom”. This isn’t new.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Plenty of fit, thin kids don’t like to go outside when it’s very cold or hot. It’s weird that OP and others are trying to make it some moral virtue like we are in an LLBean commercial or something. We have neighbor kids to our house all the time indoors, and vice versa.

Plenty of (seemingly) fit, thin kids don’t like to eat vegetables. Or clean up after themselves. Or do their homework.

Stop being a bad parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Such little snowflakes can’t play in 40 degree weather. SAD!

Maybe ask yourself why you feel the need to constantly send your children outside away from you? I work at an ES, so I know exactly which kids are sent outside to “go play” away from Mom.

Volunteering to hover over your kid in the cafeteria doesn’t count as “working” at an ES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Such little snowflakes can’t play in 40 degree weather. SAD!

Maybe ask yourself why you feel the need to constantly send your children outside away from you? I work at an ES, so I know exactly which kids are sent outside to “go play” away from Mom.

Volunteering to hover over your kid in the cafeteria doesn’t count as “working” at an ES.

Sick burn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Plenty of fit, thin kids don’t like to go outside when it’s very cold or hot. It’s weird that OP and others are trying to make it some moral virtue like we are in an LLBean commercial or something. We have neighbor kids to our house all the time indoors, and vice versa.

Op here. The issue with indoor play is that it becomes tablets and devices and not every child has one, so Billy, Bobby, Jackie and Jason all come over and start on Roblox but Leslie who comes over too, doesn’t have a device and then inevitably someone looks up something another child isn’t allowed to and it becomes an issue of policing what other peoples children are watching online. I stray from indoor play. I feel like I can’t see what your kid is looking up online and I don’t know what you allow or don’t allow and calling parents every few minutes to check on Jeff the Killer or the pencil nose character is annoying on both ends. Easier to just avoid it to be safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Such little snowflakes can’t play in 40 degree weather. SAD!

Maybe ask yourself why you feel the need to constantly send your children outside away from you? I work at an ES, so I know exactly which kids are sent outside to “go play” away from Mom.

Volunteering to hover over your kid in the cafeteria doesn’t count as “working” at an ES.

Not even close. I work there full time for pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Plenty of fit, thin kids don’t like to go outside when it’s very cold or hot. It’s weird that OP and others are trying to make it some moral virtue like we are in an LLBean commercial or something. We have neighbor kids to our house all the time indoors, and vice versa.

Op here. The issue with indoor play is that it becomes tablets and devices and not every child has one, so Billy, Bobby, Jackie and Jason all come over and start on Roblox but Leslie who comes over too, doesn’t have a device and then inevitably someone looks up something another child isn’t allowed to and it becomes an issue of policing what other peoples children are watching online. I stray from indoor play. I feel like I can’t see what your kid is looking up online and I don’t know what you allow or don’t allow and calling parents every few minutes to check on Jeff the Killer or the pencil nose character is annoying on both ends. Easier to just avoid it to be safe.

Right. So as I said in the beginning it is an inconvenience to you that other parents don’t force their kids outside to play with yours in the cold. This is the only reason you care. If it was just for the “health” of it, you would send your kids out alone and not worry about others.

[Anonymous]

Adults tend to project their preferences onto their kids. So if they think it’s too cold to be outside, they think their kids will be too cold to be outside. Or hot.

I say throw a jacket and hat on them and let them play.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Plenty of fit, thin kids don’t like to go outside when it’s very cold or hot. It’s weird that OP and others are trying to make it some moral virtue like we are in an LLBean commercial or something. We have neighbor kids to our house all the time indoors, and vice versa.

Op here. The issue with indoor play is that it becomes tablets and devices and not every child has one, so Billy, Bobby, Jackie and Jason all come over and start on Roblox but Leslie who comes over too, doesn’t have a device and then inevitably someone looks up something another child isn’t allowed to and it becomes an issue of policing what other peoples children are watching online. I stray from indoor play. I feel like I can’t see what your kid is looking up online and I don’t know what you allow or don’t allow and calling parents every few minutes to check on Jeff the Killer or the pencil nose character is annoying on both ends. Easier to just avoid it to be safe.

Right. So as I said in the beginning it is an inconvenience to you that other parents don’t force their kids outside to play with yours in the cold. This is the only reason you care. If it was just for the “health” of it, you would send your kids out alone and not worry about others.

Op here. I shared before that I do send my kids out alone. I posted because I was surprised that more families do not. My kids still while playing outside together stop by other homes to see if other kids want to join them. I see that as a nice thing to do.

[Anonymous]

I agree with others that it is never too nasty to be outside. The only exception I can think of would be an active tornado warning for my zip code and that's never happened in my 15 years of parenting.

Maybe they don't stay out as long. Maybe they need to wear bread bags inside their boots. So what? Put there wet stuff in the dryer for 20 minutes, drink some cocoa and get back out there. And don't get me started on dumbing down our parenting to whatever the school district says is too cold/windy/wet for recess - that's just the lawyers talking.

Go out there with them and show them that they are stronger than they know!

[Anonymous]

In Fairbanks AK, they move recess indoors if the windchill is below -20 (that is, NEGATIVE 20). That seems a bit extreme, but at age 10 my kid played outside in a t-shirt when it was 27F. He came in when he got cold. Kids may be stupid about some things, but they won't endanger themselves.

https://cleanairfairbanks.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/fnsb-school-district-adverse-conditions-admin-reg-945-and-elem-recess-policy-946.pdf