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“It’s way too cold for your baby to be outside”
I chat with a cab driver in Siping.
06/11/2014
Ruth Silbermayr
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It’s October, 2014. We’re in my husband’s hometown, Siping. Siping is in Northeast China and it’s already quite cold at this time of the year. Lows are in the single digits (around 2°C or 35°F). During the day, we still get a lot of sunshine. I often pack up our little one and go for a walk in the early afternoon.
One day, we take a cab. When the cab driver sees our son, he turns up the heating and asks: “How old is he?”
I tell him: “He’s 14 weeks.”
The cab driver says, aghast: “Only 3 months? It’s way too cold for him to be outside.”
Have people ever told you that it’s too cold to take your child outside?