Sunscreen Saga

[BuggedMei]

What did humanity do for thousands of years before 1938 when sunscreen was invented? That goes for many of these modern wonders we can't seem to go a day without.

Modern "technology" is turning us all into wussies. :P

Played in the freaking shade. Whoever designed a playground with ONE tree needs to be shot.

[AccountingDrone]

When I worked at a daycare I once had a parent complain that we didn't call when her child got sunscreen in her eye. She needed to be alerted immediately so she could take her to the hospital, she said. The parents were worse at the daycare than most elementary schools, which is saying a lot.

If they are that fucking anal, they need to keep the tyke at home and deal with it themself.

I used to play outside, and get sunburnt, bug bit, wet and dirty. I seemed to have survived just fine.

[phantasy]

If they are that fucking anal, they need to keep the tyke at home and deal with it themself.

I used to play outside, and get sunburnt, bug bit, wet and dirty. I seemed to have survived just fine.

But AccountingDrone, don't you know that you could've gotten cancer, malaria, pneumonia and various dirt-related diseases from that??!?1!

/sarcasm

Parents need to let their kids get a little dirty, have sunburn and eat strange things from the floor. If they don't, the kids' little bodies wil never learn how to fight against these things.

[RavenStarr]

Bugged is there something in the water where you live? It seems like all you get are the crazy parents. Also have you ever thought of opening your own private run daycare? I think you should.

[georgie]

i never thought about sunscreen when i was a kid. there were times i wish i had. can still remember the summer i had to wear an elastic skirt as a strapless top. i was a pale redhead and 4 hours in 40+C sunshine one day burnt my shoulders so badly there were blistered the whole summer.

at the beginning of summer here each year i send a large tub of sunscreen into school and trust DD teachers enough to put it on her before outside play. The one good thing about most australian school (around here at least) is the rule "no hat no play" which sometimes includes "no sunscreen no play".

have to say that im not a helicopter parent at all. most of the time im the opposite. there have been times i've said to only call me if DD's head is spinning round and she's spewing something green or if her head falls off. havent had too many calls from them

[SongsOfDragons]

It's people like no. 3 whose children are going to end up with RICKETS from not having enough vitamin D!!! Well done mum/dad, or should that be dum/mad, you screwed up your kid's life again!!

[CaroPhoenix]

I'm fairskinned (coming from a Irish-American Father and a mother who had a German father - both gentlemen are fairskinned and both have had melenoma - stage 3 for both of them).

I went to a dermatologist after my father's second bout of skin cancer. I was told to use a sunscreen with at least an SPF of 60 and had to have certain ingredients (can't remember them off the top of my head, but I found the one she recommended on line).

My daughter is olive complected like her father, my mom, and my sister. I think she's going to be just fine. *keeps fingers crossed*

[BuggedMei]

Bugged is there something in the water where you live? It seems like all you get are the crazy parents. Also have you ever thought of opening your own private run daycare? I think you should.

Maybe? I have my share of "normal" parents, really. Its just most of them are insane. Extremely insane.

My own daycare? Noooooooooooooooooooooo. The crazies would kill me in my sleep. I even changed my outlook on my career >_> I was gonna do elementary education and now, six months of working in daycare, I'm 100% sure I wanna do secondary education now!



....we had "contaminated water" once after a bad, bad storm, where all water had to be boiled to be used. I spent the first 3 hours of my shift boiling water that day. The parents were beyond insane. Some even flat out told us the kids couldn't touch any water that didn't come out of a bottle that day.

[Mishi]

My family has to wear sunscreen because we're all very pale, and the kindy that my eldest attends has all these commonsense notes on the enrolment form about sunscreen, hats, jackets, water bottles, food, appropriate clothing, toys and changes of clothes. They have a no hat, no play policy all year round, and send newsletters home about jackets now the weather is getting cool. We're lucky that we can send our munchkin to a fairly easy-going kindy with a tree-filled playground.

[fireheart]

I'm so glad I go to a privately-run home daycare. My sitter is smart enough to know what to do for my kids, and I'm smart enough to LET HER! God I hate these harping helicopter parents who don't actually want to be bothered raising their kids themselves, but will criticize your every move when you try to take care of their little pwecious. My sister-in-law is like this, and it drives me nuts.

My eldest cousin on my dad's side runs her own daycare from home. She has about maybe 12 or so kids total, spread out over the week. I think her criteria is a little bit stricter though. She also has a 1-year-old son.
She's responsible for everything and had to pass stringent safety checks before she started. Fortunately, she doesn't get the helicopter parents, they tend to stick to the privately/government-funded daycares.

Parents need to let their kids get a little dirty, have sunburn and eat strange things from the floor. If they don't, the kids' little bodies wil never learn how to fight against these things.

Same argument is used for immunisation. My parents also had the exact same idea. When we were meeting up with family for special occasions, I'd get dressed up, or on a few occasions I'd wear a dress, but otherwise I'd wear old clothes and go and muck around in the sandpit.

Bugged is there something in the water where you live? It seems like all you get are the crazy parents. Also have you ever thought of opening your own private run daycare? I think you should.

Seconded on this one. Generally you have control over how many kids you can accept per day/in total. You also do get trained, it's not entirely "your house is safe, congratulations, you can open" type thing. Also, you can refuse entrance to helicopter parents if needs be. (and also, I don't know if you do it in the US, but in Australia, we have a mandatory reporting system in place for child abuse. If we suspect child abuse, we have to report it.)

[scruff]

I had wondered why the local school had roofed over the youngest kids playground.
I guess I know why now.
*headdesk*

[Stryker One]

Go for the Avatard look

If they want sunscreen, use this.

[Rapscallion]

Some recent study suggested sunscreen may be harmful. I can't wait til the parents read this.

I'm on the receiving end of it right now :/

We're waiting for some solid scientific results.

Rapscallion

[infinitemonkies]

The late, great, George Carlin once noted something like this:

"I love skin cancer. Take some asshole with too much free time who is healthy, who sits out in the sun all day, everyday, because they want to look "healthy," and they get skin cancer and die. It's vanity karma"

[Can I Help Your A$$?]

I always say that having a child makes you go crazy. Nobody believes me.