Can I just skip hats and mittens this year?

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Anonymous wrote:No problem here in Loudoun where they literally CANCEL SCHOOL if they think it will be too cold at the bus stop.

Wish I was kidding.

As I recall, they didn't literally CANCEL SCHOOL because they thought it was too cold at the bus stop. They literally CANCELED SCHOOL because they were worried that the school buses wouldn't start.

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously people. Except for the under 5 kiddos, you shouldn't be wasting energy and disrupting otherwise calm, loving moments fighting with kids over this kind of crap. We don't live in Canada--they aren't going to get frostbite if they don't wear gloves. It's perfectly appropriate to let them figure this crap out themselves. When and if they get cold, TRUST ME, they know how to ask you for what they need. Don't waste the money on it until they ask you to. You're teaching them how to be more responsible with money in general and with the things you buy them, which are important life skills.

I'm from Canada. Yeah, it doesn't get as cold, or last as long, but no way am I letting my kid go without hat and gloves. If it's 10 degrees out, you better be prepared. We walk and take transit a coat hood absolutely does not cut it on the coldest days, so I'm guessing I'm coming at this from a different perspective than most people who have posted.

10 degrees is a whole different ball game. We get that about 1 day per year in DC - and You will get no complaints about wearing mittens from my crew on days like that!

It's that temperature more than one damn day, PP. You obviously have a "fair weather" memory.

Since 1994 there have been exactly 10 days where is has gotten below 15 degrees. So, on average we get extreme cold one day out of every two years, PP.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/01/28/january-2014-the-coldest-in-decades-in-d-c-by-many-counts/

[Anonymous]

That's the average for the day, not the low. There are still plenty of days where it can be 15 degrees or lower well into the morning. February 2015 was noted for being historically cold. I count 9 days that the low temperature was 15 or lower at DCA--a place where the temperature is notoriously higher than anywhere else in the region.

The thing with the weather here is it's so darn unpredictable. Might snow 6 feet, might not snow at all. Might be 60 degrees for Thanksgiving, might be 30 for Easter. The year-to-year variability is tough enough, but it was swing wildly month-to-month all winter long, and sometimes from week to week.

[Anonymous]

attach mittens/gloves to yarn. pull through sleeves. they won't get lost.

[Anonymous]

My 7 yo keeps coming home with his jacket stuffed in his backpack. I have hats and gloves but don't force him to take them to school. I put them in my 5 yo backpack. She only wore them on the coldest days last year in preschool. I'll send them in again this year and she can wear them if she wants.

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously people. Except for the under 5 kiddos, you shouldn't be wasting energy and disrupting otherwise calm, loving moments fighting with kids over this kind of crap. We don't live in Canada--they aren't going to get frostbite if they don't wear gloves. It's perfectly appropriate to let them figure this crap out themselves. When and if they get cold, TRUST ME, they know how to ask you for what they need. Don't waste the money on it until they ask you to. You're teaching them how to be more responsible with money in general and with the things you buy them, which are important life skills.

I'm from Canada. Yeah, it doesn't get as cold, or last as long, but no way am I letting my kid go without hat and gloves. If it's 10 degrees out, you better be prepared. We walk and take transit a coat hood absolutely does not cut it on the coldest days, so I'm guessing I'm coming at this from a different perspective than most people who have posted.

10 degrees is a whole different ball game. We get that about 1 day per year in DC - and You will get no complaints about wearing mittens from my crew on days like that!

It's that temperature more than one damn day, PP. You obviously have a "fair weather" memory.

Since 1994 there have been exactly 10 days where is has gotten below 15 degrees. So, on average we get extreme cold one day out of every two years, PP.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/01/28/january-2014-the-coldest-in-decades-in-d-c-by-many-counts/

This is an average, not a low. And it doesn't include windchill.