Do you have your kids wear sunscreen every day? (including to school)

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Anonymous wrote:Definitely not. They desperately need that vitamin D.

This. Everything in moderation. Thirty minutes of sun exposure during the day during the school year is appropriate.

[Anonymous]

I want to - very fair kids. Can pp recommend their daily use sun block? My kids will not tolerate the heavy duty stuff for daily use. If there is something smooth and invisible I can probably get it routinized.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want to - very fair kids. Can pp recommend their daily use sun block? My kids will not tolerate the heavy duty stuff for daily use. If there is something smooth and invisible I can probably get it routinized.

We use Alba kids mineral sunblock. It's typical of mineral sunblocks in that it's not the smoothest or lightest but it's all my kids know.

Supergoop makes a really great lightweight, invisible, quick-drying sunblock, I think it's called the unseen. It feels almost like a silicone face primer.

[Anonymous]

I looked into a pressed powder SPF that my tween girl may use. Anyone use those with success?
-OP

[Anonymous]

I slather my 4 year old in sunscreen everyday, even cloudy days, up until mid October. After that I just use a face stick on her nose, cheeks and forehead, but I don't make a big deal about it of I forget.
Then we start again in mid March

[Anonymous]

No ... my child is 5 and I put sunscreen on at the beach or a pool session at the height of the day. I have felt deficient for not slathering it on all the time like other moms, but the thing is that sunscreen maybe didn't exist when I was a child, I spent every day all day outdoors, never burned. Same with DH. The kid has skin like ours. He is not gonna burn. So I do not sweat winter days, school days, or anything other than an all-day-in-the-sun scenario. I forgot his sunscreen for a day of outdoor camp this past summer, and when I picked him up his face was red. But then after some minutes indoors, turned out he was just red from exercise, no sunburn. No skin cancer in my family either. We are white but we have tan skin. I never had a sunburn until I was an adult. I think some genetics have natural protection. But if my kid were pale and susceptible I would do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I slather my 4 year old in sunscreen everyday, even cloudy days, up until mid October. After that I just use a face stick on her nose, cheeks and forehead, but I don't make a big deal about it of I forget.
Then we start again in mid March

This makes me cringe. Why???

[Anonymous]

I think we’re going to find out one day how bad this excessive use of sunscreen is. My neurologist talks about the studies on the effects of low vitamin D and that taking a supplement is not as protective. You can read a lot about the harmful chemicals in chemical sunscreens. I don’t think year-round sunscreen is necessary for anyone in the DMV. Yes to mineral sunscreen in the summer when we’re outdoors.

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Anonymous wrote:I looked into a pressed powder SPF that my tween girl may use. Anyone use those with success?
-OP

I hate the feel of sunscreen but live in the desert SW so I have to wear good spf year round. I personally use these and don’t mine them at all. There are a bunch of different powder options so you just need to find one you like. The face lotion doesn’t feel sunscreen like at all.

https://www.amazon.com/Brush-Block-Protection-Phthalates-Translucent/dp/B00K1LQXWC/ref=sr_1_7?crid=148Y50S4W2HEA&keywords=spf+powder+for+face&qid=1637329171&sprefix=SPF+powder%2Caps%2C251&sr=8-7

https://www.amazon.com/EltaMD-Clear-Facial-Sunscreen-Broad-Spectrum/dp/B002MSN3QQ/ref=sr_1_3_sspa?crid=148Y50S4W2HEA&keywords=spf+powder+for+face&qid=1637329171&sprefix=SPF+powder%2Caps%2C251&sr=8-3-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzMFpTMDlQVEk2WUg0JmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMzEzOTE4T1JZOE8zQ1pPVzBNJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTA2ODQzNDJSM1IwWDc4NFEzMkUmd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGYmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl

[Anonymous]

I hear you on sunscreen, but you do realize that it wears off in a few hours, right? So you slathering on sunscreen at 7AM is not fully effective at 11AM for recess. Just a thought. I am fair skinned and I put on my daily moisturizer with SPF year round and real sunscreen for the summer. In the winter, also, if she wears a hat, half the face is already covered. I am very fair skinned.

[Anonymous]

From May-September, I apply sunscreen on DS(3) and DD(1.5) in the morning before daycare, then daycare reapplies in the afternoon. I'll also apply it if they're going outside in the snow. October-April I generally don't bother, unless it's an unusually hot day and I know they're going to be spending a lot of time outside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We do. My oldest is 4 but we sunscreen every morning that she'll have recess or before going to play outside on weekends. 30 minutes of sun is a lot. We're redheads with fair skin, ped asks about sunscreen use at each checkup and reminds us it's important even in winter. I have a ton of freckles and had a fair amont on my face by the time I wheas her age. Her same-aged, redhead cousin who lives in Chicago (who is not as religious about sunscreen as we are) has a freckly face. My kid has one so far. Freckles are sun damage so I'd say the sunscreen use is paying off.

Aren't freckles largely genetic? I have had them as long as I can remember.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think we’re going to find out one day how bad this excessive use of sunscreen is. My neurologist talks about the studies on the effects of low vitamin D and that taking a supplement is not as protective. You can read a lot about the harmful chemicals in chemical sunscreens. I don’t think year-round sunscreen is necessary for anyone in the DMV. Yes to mineral sunscreen in the summer when we’re outdoors.

Agree

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I looked into a pressed powder SPF that my tween girl may use. Anyone use those with success?
-OP

Yes I gave you a link yesterday

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We do. My oldest is 4 but we sunscreen every morning that she'll have recess or before going to play outside on weekends. 30 minutes of sun is a lot. We're redheads with fair skin, ped asks about sunscreen use at each checkup and reminds us it's important even in winter. I have a ton of freckles and had a fair amont on my face by the time I wheas her age. Her same-aged, redhead cousin who lives in Chicago (who is not as religious about sunscreen as we are) has a freckly face. My kid has one so far. Freckles are sun damage so I'd say the sunscreen use is paying off.

Aren't freckles largely genetic? I have had them as long as I can remember.

They are but you're not born with them. They're sun damage. Often (not always), it will take a sunburn, even a minor one, to develop freckles. And sunburns hugely increase the risk of skin cancer.

Sun tans are also sun damage but they're far less significant than sunburns for skin cancer purposes.