Once Out of the House

[wlotus]

"Your parents told you to wear that hat and gloves, didn't they?" I asked as he shivered his way onto the bus in front of me. He smiled and, ignoring the 5 minutes he spent waiting, said they did, but the bus "was already here."

Kids' sense of time is incredibly fluid when it suits them.

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[rockbirthedme.livejournal.com]

I realized early on that the appropriate response to this is, "You don't have to wear them, but 1) you must take them with you just in case, and 2) don't complain to me later if you're wet/cold/hot/whatever."

The only exception is sunscreen, which is non-optional. None of us has red hair, but three of us have red-head skin -- NotSoLittleAnyMore! is practically frickin' transparent. I do NOT like nursemaiding sunburn, so sunscreen is a requirement whether they like it or not.