Are you my MIL?

She's constantly chasing after my kid and trying to bundle her up.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm always more warmly dressed than my kids, because they don't mind being cold. I'm sure it does look funny, but I don't care. They hate wearing coats and hats and gloves, and it's not worth the battle for a short trip out in the cold.

Babies don't "mind" being cold? How did you learn that?

She didn't say babies.... she said her kids. Who are presumably, from the post, able to dress/undress themselves or have a say in the matter.

Lol! I had an elderly lady in Target say to me, "You better keep a hat on his head before he catch da colic."

This was in October.

Anonymous wrote:Body heat escapes through the head. That's why you put on a hat in the winter.

Not really.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/dec/17/medicalresearch-humanbehaviour

Body heat escapes through the head. That's why you put on a hat in the winter.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How old are you? This seems to be common with older women, the obsession with covering babies heads. I do not think it is a big deal if babys head is uncovered for a 30 second walk from a car into a heated store.

Odd how mom needs a hat for herself, but baby doesn't.

What's "odd" about it?

seriously -- my kid is older, but from the time DC was a newborn she was about 20 degrees warmer than me (i wear a cardigan in the summer) -but her dad is like that - ALWAYS HOT! If the baby is not crawling around the parking lot naked -- LET IT GO!

I was walking into the grocery store and my baby actually DID have a hat on. A women said something to me that I couldn't hear so I had to stop and ask her to repeat herself. She was telling me that my baby's ear had come out from under the hat. Really?! So you made us stand out in the cold longer than we had to for such a stupid comment. It made me so angry.

If my mom had her way my kids (who are older btw) would be in 4 layers in 37 degrees. Honestly, it's not that cold. Hat not needed for running in and out of stores (esp if baby pulls it off and you end up spending all your time picking it up off the dirty store floors). I, OTOH, was freezing and had my coat zipped and gloves on at the bus stop this morning. My DD would not wear gloves or hat (said she was not cold).

OP, MYOB!

I don't put a hat on my baby to walk from a parking lot to a store. I don't put a hat on ME either from the lot to the store. Judge away if it makes you feel better about yourself. I feel just fine about my choices.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I rarely put a hat on my kid in the car (he takes it off), and I never put a jacket on because of the carseat safety issues. Getting him bundled between the car and the store would take as much time and be just as cold as just walking quickly.

So yes, I walk into the store in a parka while my kid is unbundled.

Me too!

+1

My baby wears a fleece most of the time. She's toasty warm in the car under her blanket. No hat, ever.
And, for the 30 seconds it takes me to walk from the car to the store, she does fine staying warm in my arms.

Why does this matter to you, OP? So much that you post a thread on here? MYOB

Like I tell my older DD, 'Worry about yourself'.

Yes to everything above.

OP - mind your own freaking business. Obnoxious!

Well, OP, I would put the giant puffy coat on my kid, but I'm afraid one of your cronies will then bitch me out for not knowing how dangerous it is to have a coat on my kid when he's strapped in his car seat.

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Anonymous wrote:I rarely put a hat on my kid in the car (he takes it off), and I never put a jacket on because of the carseat safety issues. Getting him bundled between the car and the store would take as much time and be just as cold as just walking quickly.

So yes, I walk into the store in a parka while my kid is unbundled.

Me too!

+1

My baby wears a fleece most of the time. She's toasty warm in the car under her blanket. No hat, ever.
And, for the 30 seconds it takes me to walk from the car to the store, she does fine staying warm in my arms.

Why does this matter to you, OP? So much that you post a thread on here? MYOB

Like I tell my older DD, 'Worry about yourself'.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm always more warmly dressed than my kids, because they don't mind being cold. I'm sure it does look funny, but I don't care. They hate wearing coats and hats and gloves, and it's not worth the battle for a short trip out in the cold.

Babies don't "mind" being cold? How did you learn that?

37 degrees IS cold. Sorry.

Geez, get a grip OP. It's not that cold out.

Anonymous wrote:I rarely put a hat on my kid in the car (he takes it off), and I never put a jacket on because of the carseat safety issues. Getting him bundled between the car and the store would take as much time and be just as cold as just walking quickly.

So yes, I walk into the store in a parka while my kid is unbundled.

Yes, and then some old lady looked at me as if I was trash and said what a cold baby. Meanwhile he was just as happy as could be.