I am feeling extremely stressed right now as life is busy busy busy (kindergarten starts in SIX DAYS), so I'm going to relieve some of that stress by complaining about my number #1 pet peeve. The thing that drives me CRAZY. The thing that *almost* makes me say butting-in things to parents.
If you are using a chemical sunscreen (not titanium dioxide based) you are supposed to apply it 20-30 minutes before sun exposure.
Don't trust me. Or the directions on the bottle. Trust the Mayo Clinic. Trust the CDC. Or trust science. Since it is a chemical that is providing protection, the chemical needs time to react with your skin cells.
If you go to the pool and apply sunscreen right before your kid hops in the water, you are doing it wrong.
If you go to the beach and wait until you unload the towels and chairs and toys then apply it to your kid, you are doing it wrong.
This leads me to pet peeve #2, which is directly related to pet peeve #1:
Sunscreen should be reapplied after swimming, sweating, or within a 2-4 hour time period (depending on the skin type and sunscreen type).
WOW I feel so much better. Tell me your pet peeves!
PS. We use a face stick to apply sunscreen to the face then a lotion for the body. Very easy for kids and no sunscreen gets in their eyes! We apply (to everyone) before we even leave the house.
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We also do a stick, 50 SPF for both boys on the face as part of am dressing.
We use the spray for body and then rub in. Is lotion more effective?
What about the new apply when wet sunscreen? Bunk? or worth it?
I have taken to putting sunscreen in every travel bag, car, strollers this season which gives me no excuse not to use and reapply.
Yes, including the adults as it seems this summer we have been outside more than ever.
I'm with Vinson on the efficacy of sunscreen when re-applied to wet skin. I wear SPF 50 when I swim (at NOON-yikes) and I'm always worried about how well the reapplication actually works.
Biggest pet peeves includes hearing the word bruschetta mispronounced. Very close second is when someone mispronounces the word data. Eric Hodge disappoints me with this all. the. time.
Whew! I'm doing it right. Wouldn't want to get on your bad side! LOL.
Pet Peeves? FB updates that allude to something that most readers know nothing about. If you're not going to post the whole story, don't freakin' post! And don't get me started on driving pet peeves. How about blocking an intersection? That one ranks pretty high.
@Windycityvegan - ACK! What's the proper pronunciation? What if I'm doing it wrong????!!!! Please help!
@HeatherV - we do a spray for the body and stick for the face too :)
@Beth - I hate that about facebook status updates too!
@Laura - My current biggest pet peeve would have to be guys playing basketball at the park blasting music w/ the "N" word and the "F" word while my 3 year olds are playing. Um, hello!?!? they can hear that and repeat it!!!
My mom used to wait until getting us to the beach before applying sun screen. That may be part of the reason my sister has to get sliced and diced by the dermatologist so often.
We have had no luck with the reapplying while wet approach.
I have so many pet peeves I can't even think of them all right now. One of the big ones is when people say, "I could care less." No, no, no! That ruins the whole point you are trying to make. You are trying to explain that something is so trivial and unimportant to you that "I couldN'T care less."
Ok, this may make you unfriend me, but here, in Maine, they actually recommend pitting it on when we get there BECAUSE of the lack of vitamin D from sunlight for 3/4 of the year. I know, you probably disagree, but we have asked all the kids docs and they all agree that putting it on as soon as we get outside is fine. Do we get a pass or an eye roll? We do reapply every 3 hours, and use 70 lotion on faces and bodies.
Pet peeve?
Supposably
Chi-poll-tay
Empty threats
One person owning a giant suv
Oh and people who say, "my kid won't LET me________"
Seriously?! Who is the parent?
@Maria-we have a huge number of Vit D deficient people in Pittsburgh. My husband is on high doses of Vitamin D for that reason. But I totally get where you are coming from Laura.
My pet peeves: people speaking crassly or swearing in front of my kids (especially at the grocery store.) Also, parents dressing their little girls in "sexy" clothing. WHAT?! WHY?! I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut on that one.
Indeed. I'm a huge sunscreen girl. This year my girls have a tan on their arms and I hate it! I would like them to remain lily white if at all possible, but we've been outside a lot.
My SIL rolls her eyes at me as I apply sunscreen to my girls in the house, and then as soon as we get wherever we're going and she sees the sun asks to borrow my (expensive chemical) sunscreen because she failed to plan ahead. Grrrrr.
My pet peeve? When people use the microwave at work but then don't clear their extra time. Small, but it burns every time.
I know some people who purposefully apply it when they get to the pool (but before getting in) to get some exposure and apparently more vitamin D? I'm really not at all sure there is any validity to this though...
But doesn't SPF 100 mean we are safe for 100 hours??? No? Just kidding! Thanks for the PSA. I've been guilty of those infractions, but I will try to do better. One thing I am always guilty of is forgetting to use sunscreen if it is not hot out. You would think I had learned that lesson from living in Colorado for 4 years, but how quickly I forget!
As a black woman, I am new to the sunscreen thing, so all this is Greek to me. But I am learning Greek quickly, as I don't want my boys to have problems later on in life, simply because I was Greek-averse.
I assume you mean parenting pet peeves, as opposed to just regular pet peeves (of which I have waaay too many to name). My biggest parenting pet peeve is when people scream and yell and berate their kids in public. If you would do that with me giving you the stink-eye in the dairy aisle, how much worse is the abuse when you're in the comfort of your own home?? Ugh. Poor babies. I just want to take them all home with me.
I'm glad I'm halfway across the country, because I let the boys play for 5-10 minutes before applying sunscreen (not at the pool-we do apply beforehand then). They've been okay so far and have never even gotten a tan. I was slightly taken aback when our ped asked if we used sunscreen at the 5 year check-up. Seriously? If not then we must be a family of vampires, because the boys are crazy pale!
BTW, what sunscreen do you prefer?
My biggest patenting pet peeve? Helicopter parents!! Let your kids have some space to learn and grow and figure out social situations all by themselves. They might need to learn how to, I don't know, learn how to resolve conflict all by themselves. (BTW...I am fully convinced this is why we have more dramatic consequences of bullying these days, Kids aren't allowed to learn conflict resolution skills before they get to school and then they are socially undeveloped because their mom regulated every interaction they had!)
My pet peeve is so random and possibly regional, so disregard if it makes no sense:
The stick people family stickers on the back windows of the car. I have no idea why this bugs me, but really it drives me nuts. I don't care how many people are in your family or if you have 12 cats or 3 dogs, a fish and 7 kids wearing mickey mouse ears--the cutesy stick family is just too much information for me. Everyone has them here. There. I feel better now.
p.s. we are pretty good about the sunscreen, even though we have barely seen the sun this summer and we are all going to break our hips from lack of vitamin D.
Finally leaving a comment here! My pet peeve about this particular pet peeve is the lectures. One lady at swim lessons would give me dirty looks and actual ass-vice about putting on sunscreen 30 minutes before-hand as I slathered up the boys beside the pool.
Never mind that I was actually re-applying for the third time that day!
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