Sunhats
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Topic: Sunhats
Posted By: catisla
Subject: Sunhats
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 2:43pm
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DD hates wearing hats and constantly pulls her sun hat off.
Does anyone know of any ways around this? I am not too keen on one that ties under her chin to be honest due to the worries of her strangling, but are there any other options? thanks muchly  ------------- |
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Posted By: RBsMama
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 2:53pm
I got one for my son (13 months old) and it has straps that velco together, so there's no chance of strangulation. I got it from The Warehouse and it has worked well so far.
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 2:54pm
| just keep putting it on them and making aHUGE fuss about it. I found showing them a mirror helped. Eventually they put up with it. |
Posted By: lilfatty
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 2:56pm
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We spent a weekend where everytime she went outside she had to wear her hat, if she pulled the hat off, we went back inside .. she soon learnt she had to keep it on to continue to play outdoors.
She also started dc part time and they have the same scenario, she soon realised a hat meant going outside .. now she brings us a hat to let us know she wants to go out. ------------- Mummy to Issy (3) and Elias (18 months) I did it .. 41 kgs gone! From flab to fab in under a year  http://www.femininefitness.co.nz/category/blog - LFs weight blog
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Posted By: rachelsea
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 3:04pm
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I just keep putting it back on her hehe. Probably not much help ------------- DD 4yrs DS 2yrs http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Redbedrock
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 3:08pm
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Yep we play no hat means no outside play game, but also I role model for her, i always wear a hat, then she sees it's normal. Now she mostly wears one and we still do the coming inside if she won't put it back on. It's been good for me as I always wear a hat and sunscreen now too, just got in the habit of it ------------- http://www.babysfirstsite.com"> 
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Posted By: sunnyhoney
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 3:39pm
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I just handsewed some elastic on the hat. It's tight enough to stay on her head but loose enough that it won't strangle. We just keep putting it back on her head...usually saying something along the lines of "hats stay on when we are outside" ------------- Mum to: Joy Emily 1.05am 27/09/07 7lb 3oz Austin Paul 12.47pm 18/04/10 10lb 8oz |
Posted By: Caro07
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 3:49pm
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Another vote for persistence and it didn't actually take that long. Now he actually asks for a hat when we go out
He used to pull it off within minutes but after a few days of repetition he got the idea. We were also starting to hint along the lines of 'no hat, no going outside'. HTH ------------- Caroline, SAHM to 2 boys, S (4 years old) and J (2 years old) 
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Posted By: catisla
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 4:40pm
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Hey - thanks all
I will work on the changing behaviour thing (and also look out for velcro hats in the meantime!) I was out with her in the push chair a while ago and a stranger told me off for not having a hat on her. (She had already taken it off and it had slipped down the side of the push chair.) She also threw another one into somebody else's shopping trolley when they went past us, but I caught her that time! ------------- |
Posted By: MyLilSquishy
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 6:14pm
| maybe if you take her to the store and tell her she has to wear a hat, but she is allowed to choose which hat she wants? then she will feel like its her idea/choice to wear the hat...? good idea about if they take the hat off to go back inside though. might have to remember that one lol. |
Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 6:37pm
| Yep, persistance was the key for us too.. When she used to take the hat off, I'd tell her no, try and put it back on and if she took it off again, I would pick her up and take her inside. Took a couple of goes but it seems to be habit now. |
Posted By: pikelets
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 6:40pm
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DS hated wearing hats until we went on holiday......
That whole week we were away I constantly was putting his hat (I nearly wrote head rofl) back on. Also DH and I made sure we made a deal about wearing our hats (still do) ie, have you got your hat onDaddy, we are going outside so we have to wear them etc. By the end of the week, if Mummy and Daddy didnt have their hat on for a split second, we got told off! 
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Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 9:12pm
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Persistence definitely!
I'm confused as to how a child would strangle themselves with a tie-on hat though - it's not like you would be leaving them to play outside all day by themselves while you sat on your behind inside? Jack's had one since he was 9 months old and we've had no problems with them (and have never heard of strangulation from a hat  )
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Posted By: becky
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 9:22pm
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Kade loves his cap wears it all the time im pretty sure its due to DP rollmodelling the behaviour as he always wears a cap. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: catisla
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 9:48pm
Hmm - good point - i guess i'm just a bit overly paranoid about that - I worry about it getting caught on something. Same reason why i didn't want a teething necklace (my issue!) I will persist with the behaviour thing though and keep at it ------------- |
emz wrote:Posted By: KiwiL
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 10:07pm
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Persistance and quick distraction works for Jackson... though he's chaos baby so he never focuses on anything for too long!
I also notice that looser hats are better, maybe cos he can't feel it as much? I am hat obsessed, so not liking the "I'm not wearing a hat" stage! |
Posted By: Daizy
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 11:15pm
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My girls were always far to clever for straps
Distraction and not letting them outside without a hat seemed to work best for us. Keira was also very particular about the hat she wanted to wear so as long as she had the choice she was pretty good. Good thing this hasn't been a very long summer and by next year she'll (hopefully) have no problems wearing hats ------------- 
 
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