Does anyone else think that this is stupid?

tomstickland

they are not allowed to play in the playground when it has snowed

That's so pathetic!

Horace

Well kids today are really mollycoddled - they're not even allowed to play conkers! Why can't people let children be children - they're quite resilient beings when allowed to just be instead of wrapping them in cotton wool all the time.

I am sure is said child is wrapped up warmly, then she should be allowed to go - there is nothing worse for a child than being the odd one out when parents refuse permission for school trips.

mrcow

I don't think it's stupid at all.

I took my 2 year old to Lapland for the day once. We were outside all day in temperatures of -25C except for lunch when we were inside. We had a great day.

Just make sure she is appropriately dressed. If you do so, then I can't see what the problem would be?

Becles

My boys did a football course last October week holiday. It was an outdoor course and it rained heavily the week before the course.

On arrival a number of parents removed their children from the course as they assumed due to the weather that the course would be moved inside, but the coaches said football is an outdoor game so it went ahead outside as planned.

By the end of the day, the pitch looked more like a ploughed field and the children were soaked to the skin and caked from head to foot in mud. I made mine sit in bin bags in the car on the way home, as they were that mucky!

However, they had a whale of a time and they really enjoyed it. They didn't seem to care about the cold, wet and the mud - they just enjoyed the football.

As long as children are enjoying themselves, I don't think they bother about cold bad weather as much as we do.