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https://www.daycare.com/news/daycare_and_weather.html
I found this link on daycare.com a long time ago when I was thinking about deciding when it's too cold to go out!
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We go out if it's 20 degrees above zero (windchills have to stay above zero) and below 98 degrees (minus the humidity). This year we haven't been able to go out much and it's the first year that's happened in the last 5 years
Poor kids are so cooped up.
We usually stay out up to 20 minutes, but they are allowed to come inside the porch if they are done or to warm up and such.Comment
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A couple hours north...in the frozen boonies of MN
We make a trek to the Twin Cities a few times a year. Mall of America, shopping, various daycare training conferences, Law Enforcement training/schools, the occasional weekend getaway... We drive to St. Cloud much more regularly.
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THis is where we are going in March, the Mall and the indoor huge indoor waterpark right across from the Mall Of America. I can't wait!!!!A couple hours north...in the frozen boonies of MN We make a trek to the Twin Cities a few times a year. Mall of America, shopping, various dayacre training conferences, Law Enforcement training/schools, the occasional weekend getaway... We drive to St. Cloud much more regularly.Comment
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If we go outside depends a lot on which daycare kids I have and of course what the temps are. We typically do NOT go out while during the day while the big kids are in school because the little ones are too little to play in the snow. When the school aged kids get home my daughter (14yrs) will take the older ones out to play as long as they also got to play out at recess. If it was too cold at recess they do not go out here either.
I too live in mid-northern MN. I'm about 5 minutes from I-35 and just a little more than halfway north between the cities and Duluth. I'm excited because I get to go to St. Cloud next weekend (for training). It will be a nice change of scenery. Our family all lives down in the cities and if I need to do some major shopping (more than groceries) I'll either go to Duluth or the cities depending on my mood and what I need.A couple hours north...in the frozen boonies of MN We make a trek to the Twin Cities a few times a year. Mall of America, shopping, various daycare training conferences, Law Enforcement training/schools, the occasional weekend getaway... We drive to St. Cloud much more regularly.Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.Comment
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Well in TX we don't have the bad winters. Well we do get cold temps (at least cold to us!
) but we never get snow. We have once in a blue moon gotten sleet but nothing that would actually stick. It would melt by mid morning.
Anyway I and the state would sometimes go around and around because we are/were required to take the children out no matter the weather. Whether or not that has changed I dont know. It didn't matter if it was 100 degrees out, they had to spend SOMETIME outside. Sad thing is, sometimes the humidity is way up there at 8 in the morning!
Yet I could only imagine if God forbid the worst ever happened, we would still be up the creek since we DID follow the rules!
Grrr I hate TX state licensing!!!
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Yes, they expect us to go out daily and I just don't agree with that living in NY. They say if whether permits. But, what exactly does that mean? If school is not closed due to whether then I would say whether permits. However, 8 degrees in my opinion is too cold, plus to add in the wind chill.Comment
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I try to get the kids out daily, even if only for a few minutes, unless it is bitterly cold or we have high wind warnings or sloppy weather. The past 2 days we have had high winds (like up to 50 mph gusts) with garbage and twigs blowing all over the place and repeated warnings on the weather radio to watch for downed power lines SO I did not take the kids out today or yesterday. Most of my parents were ok that we didn't go out but then I heard from one today that says his spouse was annoyed that we didn't go out! I just cannot win! So much for my good day.Comment
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As long as the windchill is not bad, and its above 20 degrees, I will take them out for a short period, not long, and yeah it takes a while to get them bundled, but oh well, They dont get sick from cold weather, I think its good for them, And my laws state I must bring them out weather permitting, and I read that was above 20 degrees, However most of the winter it will be below that here in MN.Comment
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I started reading this post and was thinking OMG where do these poor people live that it is already so cold, the one said Alabama WTH and then I realized the thread was started last January.LOL Makes much more sense now!Comment
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I use this chart - it is the same chart the schools and preschools use.
it factors in the windchill and temperature and you base that on weather or not you go outside.Comment
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