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

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry your free childcare is gone OP. My kids don’t like the cold.

Op here. None of the parents were outside, just the kids. 6-13 year olds in elementary and middle school.

Do your kids play at recess?

I’m curious, do many kids not like cold weather?

We are in the DMV, not too cold not too snowy in these months either.

Your kids were still out of your hair and now their entertainment is gone. I’m in the DMV and no my kids don’t want to play outside when it’s 40. Do you let the neighbors play inside your home?

DP but you’re an awful person and a terrible mother. I hope your kids enjoy their parent-inflicted myopia.

Enjoying books, puzzles, games and crafts is just as virtuous as running around outside in the cold. Not every child has ADHD.

It’s literally not, though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry your free childcare is gone OP. My kids don’t like the cold.

Op here. None of the parents were outside, just the kids. 6-13 year olds in elementary and middle school.

Do your kids play at recess?

I’m curious, do many kids not like cold weather?

We are in the DMV, not too cold not too snowy in these months either.

Your kids were still out of your hair and now their entertainment is gone. I’m in the DMV and no my kids don’t want to play outside when it’s 40. Do you let the neighbors play inside your home?

DP but you’re an awful person and a terrible mother. I hope your kids enjoy their parent-inflicted myopia.

Enjoying books, puzzles, games and crafts is just as virtuous as running around outside in the cold. Not every child has ADHD.

It’s literally not, though.

It is. OP will just have to entertain her own kids rather than expecting neighbor kids to do it. I suspect hers are hyper and annoying.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry your free childcare is gone OP. My kids don’t like the cold.

Op here. None of the parents were outside, just the kids. 6-13 year olds in elementary and middle school.

Do your kids play at recess?

I’m curious, do many kids not like cold weather?

We are in the DMV, not too cold not too snowy in these months either.

Your kids were still out of your hair and now their entertainment is gone. I’m in the DMV and no my kids don’t want to play outside when it’s 40. Do you let the neighbors play inside your home?

DP but you’re an awful person and a terrible mother. I hope your kids enjoy their parent-inflicted myopia.

Enjoying books, puzzles, games and crafts is just as virtuous as running around outside in the cold. Not every child has ADHD.

It’s literally not, though.

It is. OP will just have to entertain her own kids rather than expecting neighbor kids to do it. I suspect hers are hyper and annoying.

Oh, there’s definitely someone annoying on this thread. And it’s not the parents that want their kids to have some fresh air.

[Anonymous]

Kids should be playing outside, rain or shine, -20 or 99, every day for at least four hours. It’s very unhealthy to be inside and on screens.

[Anonymous]

All temps just need the right gear

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry your free childcare is gone OP. My kids don’t like the cold.

Op here. None of the parents were outside, just the kids. 6-13 year olds in elementary and middle school.

Do your kids play at recess?

I’m curious, do many kids not like cold weather?

We are in the DMV, not too cold not too snowy in these months either.

Your kids were still out of your hair and now their entertainment is gone. I’m in the DMV and no my kids don’t want to play outside when it’s 40. Do you let the neighbors play inside your home?

DP but you’re an awful person and a terrible mother. I hope your kids enjoy their parent-inflicted myopia.

Enjoying books, puzzles, games and crafts is just as virtuous as running around outside in the cold. Not every child has ADHD.

It’s literally not, though.

It is. OP will just have to entertain her own kids rather than expecting neighbor kids to do it. I suspect hers are hyper and annoying.

Why does dcum always think playing with the neighborhood kids is expecting childcare? It's just normal, being a kid fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids should be playing outside, rain or shine, -20 or 99, every day for at least four hours. It’s very unhealthy to be inside and on screens.

Np You may be correct but, if the kids in the neighborhood do not want to play outside you can't make them. Op's kids will have to play with each other.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry your free childcare is gone OP. My kids don’t like the cold.

Op here. None of the parents were outside, just the kids. 6-13 year olds in elementary and middle school.

Do your kids play at recess?

I’m curious, do many kids not like cold weather?

We are in the DMV, not too cold not too snowy in these months either.

Your kids were still out of your hair and now their entertainment is gone. I’m in the DMV and no my kids don’t want to play outside when it’s 40. Do you let the neighbors play inside your home?

DP but you’re an awful person and a terrible mother. I hope your kids enjoy their parent-inflicted myopia.

Enjoying books, puzzles, games and crafts is just as virtuous as running around outside in the cold. Not every child has ADHD.

It’s literally not, though.

It is. OP will just have to entertain her own kids rather than expecting neighbor kids to do it. I suspect hers are hyper and annoying.

Why does dcum always think playing with the neighborhood kids is expecting childcare? It's just normal, being a kid fun.

DCUM is full of hyper-competitive, bean-counting, control freaks who hate children and fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All temps just need the right gear

This

When we lived in Minnesota, we just bundled the kids in snowsuits and they played outside for hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry your free childcare is gone OP. My kids don’t like the cold.

Op here. None of the parents were outside, just the kids. 6-13 year olds in elementary and middle school.

Do your kids play at recess?

I’m curious, do many kids not like cold weather?

We are in the DMV, not too cold not too snowy in these months either.

Your kids were still out of your hair and now their entertainment is gone. I’m in the DMV and no my kids don’t want to play outside when it’s 40. Do you let the neighbors play inside your home?

DP but you’re an awful person and a terrible mother. I hope your kids enjoy their parent-inflicted myopia.

Enjoying books, puzzles, games and crafts is just as virtuous as running around outside in the cold. Not every child has ADHD.

It’s literally not, though.

It is. OP will just have to entertain her own kids rather than expecting neighbor kids to do it. I suspect hers are hyper and annoying.

Why does dcum always think playing with the neighborhood kids is expecting childcare? It's just normal, being a kid fun.

Honestly I find both sides of this weird. Playing with kids in the neighborhood isn't childcare, but it's also not something the other kids are obligated to do if they don't want to because it's cold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:(Our old neighborhood had few kids so this wasn’t an issue to question )

We moved to a new neighborhood and the kids here played outside everyday until the weather got cooler. They would run door to door to see who could play. There’s about 12 kids in total on just two streets and all attend the same schools. They now come right off the bus and inside for the evening saying it’s too cold out to play.

Should I not be sending my kids out with jackets and gloves when it’s cooler? It seems other parents do not let kids out in this weather in the neighborhood.

What’s reasonable for weather? It hasn’t been cooler than 40s and I expect it will get colder as winter comes about. Does playing outside stop when this weather comes?

Will it be no one outside for winter?

I send my kids outside if it’s above zero. If they get cold, they will come in. If they are outside playing, others will come out.

But yes - people around here think under fifty means it’s cold. So there will be less playing outside.

[Anonymous]

All temps- grew up in NE in the 70s. There was never a day we couldn’t go outside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:(Our old neighborhood had few kids so this wasn’t an issue to question )

We moved to a new neighborhood and the kids here played outside everyday until the weather got cooler. They would run door to door to see who could play. There’s about 12 kids in total on just two streets and all attend the same schools. They now come right off the bus and inside for the evening saying it’s too cold out to play.

Should I not be sending my kids out with jackets and gloves when it’s cooler? It seems other parents do not let kids out in this weather in the neighborhood.

What’s reasonable for weather? It hasn’t been cooler than 40s and I expect it will get colder as winter comes about. Does playing outside stop when this weather comes?

Will it be no one outside for winter?

I send my kids outside if it’s above zero. If they get cold, they will come in. If they are outside playing, others will come out.

But yes - people around here think under fifty means it’s cold. So there will be less playing outside.

Perhaps the kids are blaming the weather but, don't want to play with op's kids? And not 'all people' think that below 50 is too cold to play!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All temps- grew up in NE in the 70s. There was never a day we couldn’t go outside.

I did too. Seriously even at 30 below zero, my mom would bundle us up and put us out. It's fine.

[Anonymous]

The DMV doesn’t get temperatures that are too cold IMO. It’s a matter of whether the kids want to be out in it. I think it’s unpleasant once you get below freezing but my kid doesn’t care and will try to take his jacket off in that weather.