House temperature and clothing, need to know YOUR way!

[Centura]

Hubby and me are very different when it comes to "comfort temperature", I hate being cold and like it best when its around 75, and he would rather have 65...
Our house is hard to heat, the floors are always ice cold in some of the rooms, even if the air temp is up around 75 and I have not managed to find a way yet to keep the kids to keep their clothes on, not to mention socks or shoes...
They are 4.5 yo, 3.5 yo and 15 months old, and they all prefer running around in undies if they can.
It makes me really worried that they always run around with ice cold feet and I get chills just seeing them half naked!
I have bought them "inside shoes" they got to pick themselves, slippers, regular shoes, they wont keep them on. The only way I can keep anything on the babys feet is to keep him in footed pj's all the time, but that isn't always "practical" if you know what I mean.

Any tips or advice on how to keep their little feetsies warm? (Carpeting is not an option, neither is rugs, not practically possible)

Dilemma #2, sleeping... what bedroom temp do you have, and how are you and your kids dressed? I have one child who sweats real easy during the night, one that is neither or, and one that is like me, gets cold real easy.
Everyone says "just go after how you dress and dress your kids the same" but considering the fact that I am ALWAYS cold, its not real easy to do that LoL. The bigger kids is a bit easier since they do cover up if they get real chilly but the baby wont stay under a blanket for his life.

So, what temp is your bedroom, and how do you dress for THAT particular temperature? Examples please! Layers? Double pj's? Nothing? Big blankets, thin blankets? I would like examples for all ages of kids here They sleep in separate beds, but in the same room as us. The baby right next to my side of the bed, and the older girls at the opposite side of the room.
Our bedroom is also hard to heat evenly, its always cold at floor level and hot higher up, even with fans stirring the air.

[BellinghamCrunchie]

I'm like you, I like it much warmer than the rest of my family. DD runs about completely naked most of the time, and I have finally learned that she can be trusted to determine whether she's cold or not. Looking at her, I wonder how she can stand it - but she seems perfectly fine. And is healthy.

I really think its my thyroid and metabolism that makes me more susceptible to cold than everyone else. So, we keep all the doors closed in the rooms we are not using and the room I spend most of my time in (kitchen/living room) are at 74-75 while the rest of the house is 60-65.

I did put a rug on the floor so my bottom wasn't so cold when I was playing with DD, but she never minded the cold floor, it was just for me.

DD plays and sleeps naked by her own preference. I don't even try to put clothes on her anymore. She's so active, I'm pretty sure she's just fine.

We co-sleep, and I have 3 blankets on the bed. The bedroom is not heated at all. I fold one of the blankets off DD's side because she says she is too hot, so there are only 2 thick blankets on her, and 3 on me. Seems to work fine.

[3plus2isme]

For the older 2 I'd simply make it a rule that they MUST keep clothes/socks on. I'm not a complete harda$$ but at 3.5 & 4.5 I'd expect my kids to be listening to be regarding that.

As for bedroom temps... My boys share a room and both have completely different internal temps... Older DS freezes so he wears super warm PJs and younger DS sweats like a piggy and usually wears a tee and shorts. Can you just adjust what they're wearing until you find what works???

[Red Pajama]

We keep the house at about 67. Husband would like it much warmer, but for financial reasons (and my comfort) we keep it lower. When his mother visits we have it warmer, and we bump it up every night for bedtime for about an hour. The kids all sleep in warm fuzzy pajamas, and we have a matress warmer on our bed. And everybody's got their favorite warm blankets.

Personally, I roast anywhere above 70. I sleep best in a cold room with heavy blankets.

[tbone_kneegrabber]

our heat is never above 62 and it goes down to 55 at night. we live in a big, 100 year old victorian house so it's not like it stays super warm. Ds likes wearing clothes and usually in the winter I put him in tights and then pants, or leg warmers and socks, or tight pj bottoms and then pants during the day, but if he wanted to be naked and wasn't cold I would be fine with that. He seems to get cold (tells me when he is cold and then we help him get warmer)

at night he has been sleeping in flannel footie pjs (his choice of pjs) and we cosleep, everyone has their own comforter. Sometimes I put ds' on him and mine on top of him, but he usually kicks it off.

if they aren't complaining about being cold, or shivering, I think they could probably self regulate.

(as they say, "a sweater is something you put on when your mother is cold)

[Rockies5]

mine is set at 63/58 and we wear layers. No use heating the patio at current prices! My youngest is about 4 and we have been doing it this way since before she was born.

We don't sit around alot at home, if we did we'd probably freeze Gas fireplace goes on from time to time when the outdoor temp gets below 0.

[TheGirls]

We keep the house about 60-62 during the day. Cooler at night. DD is 19 months. I dress her in babylegs, pants, long sleeved onesie and a sweatshirt most of the time. On really cold days she wears long underwear too. I put socks on her, but they don't stay on. I don't worry about it too much, but I also don't really let her run around naked. She can't get most shirts off over her head (her preference would be to never wear a shirt). She also can't get pants with a snap fly off. Overalls are good too. Her socks are another story, but I don't worry about it. If she's cold enough she'll bring me her socks and I'll put them back on (again and again) but sometimes she just runs around barefoot. And we have all hard floors, no carpet, no rugs.

At night, we all cosleep (two adults, one toddler) and DD REFUSES all blankets. Vehemently. So we have two comforters, and we each use one, and she sleeps between without anything. She goes to bed in sweats or fleece PJ's. On extremely cold nights (windy, below zero) I'll put long underwear on her as well. She is quite warm blooded and never wakes up cold....

I wear sweats and long underwear to bed, with heavy socks. I don't always get to use my blanket much because of the night nursing.... My DP (who has a comforter on all night) sleeps in flannel PJ pants and a long sleeved t-shirt.

[beanma]

I'm like many of you. I love it warm. My kids don't seem to care, though, and nobody's going to get frostbite at 65 degrees so that's one battle I just don't fight. They'll be fine. No need for concern. If they want slippers the older two are plenty old enough to put em on or take em off. If the wee one won't keep slippers on I wouldn't really worry about that either. If you take 'em outside in 10 degree weather barefooted, then yeah, I would worry!

[mamadelbosque]

We heat (almost) exclusively with wood, so the temperature in the house varies hugely from day to day and room to room. We often have windows open upstairs as otherwise its a complete oven. I sleep naked, or w/ just undies usually as does DH. DS1 wears long sleeve/long pant pjs this time of year and often kicks off the blankets but otherwise seems OK. DS2 sleeps in a onesie generally (mostly to keep the stupid diaper on...), w/ us under sheets/blankets/nothing depending on the temperature.

Personally, I despise socks and *ONLY* wear them if I have shoes on too. Otherwise, there off, period. Thats just how I am. I LOVE to be barefoot - "cold" feet don't bother me in the least, never have - I grew up here and my mom STILL tells stories about me hating socks/shoes (floor didn't used to be insulated - twas just plywood & pineboards, so it was COLD)!! If your 3.5 and 4.5 yr old are comfy w/o socks let'm be. Thats just them. Maybe put the younger one in footed pjs or try and keep socks on him, but honestly if he's taking them off he obviously doesn't like them and I'd just trust him to be OK.

[Alyantavid]

I'm kind of in the situation. We finally compromised and have the heat set at 69. It's still cold to me, but the boys and dh are all warm. We do have mostly carpeting, so the floors aren't quite so cold, but the kids never seem to mind when the floor is cold.

We sleep downstairs so it's cooler than the main floor. My youngest sweats constantly in his sleep and is always hot so he wears shorts and a t shirt to bed. My oldest is usually cold so we have several blankets for him and we're getting him fleece sheets (fleece sheets are awesome, they're all I'll use in the winter, so no freezing cold sheets for me!).

[hottmama]

Our house is 68 during the day and 62 at night. The kids' beds have a fleece blanket plus a thin comforter, and my bed has no blanket but a HOT down comforter (I have to take it off sometimes and I sleep in just undies). The kids sleep in PJs, tees and undies, or just undies, depending on their mood.
During the day I have to wear socks and a sweater over my clothes, but the boys (especially the little one, who's 4) are happy to run around in their underwear. They don't seem to mind the cold and will not wear anything on their feet inside, even if they are dressed.
For a baby I'd put tights under his pants.

[mommariffic]

I have the opposite problem. DH loves loves loves it warm, and if I put the heat down at night I wake up and it's set at like 73 and I'm sweating.

During the day, I leave it at 68ish and at night I lower it to around 62...but it goes up, so I don't even know why I bother I cosleep and we both use a quilt and that's it, and DD wears jammies. Fleece footies, long sleeve jammies, whatever really...she doesn't seem cold at night, and it's pretty cozy with just that light blanket.

[Addy's Mom]

Wow, I'm glad to know other couples have issues with this -- it's a constant battle in my house. I was raised with the temp at 68 in the winter, and that's what I like. My husband is from North Africa and cannot tolerate the cold. He wants it at 75. We compromise at 72.

My son's almost 3 and the house is warm enough (if he's moving around) to not worry about what he's wearing. His bedroom is very chilly however, not sure why. But I dress him in long PJs, and use one medium weight quilt and one light blanket over him. He can remove them if he gets too hot.

[ChristyMarie]

Personally, I'd leave your kids alone - they'll self-regulate. My son is much more like his dad who runs warm where I run cool. My general rule is he in 1 less layer than me. And the child never wears socks voluntarily. He prefers his feet ice cold. No idea why. But if he wears socks/boots - his feet are wet with sweat. That is just him. Kids will wear stuff if they are cold.

For us...about 58-62 during the day, 55 at night. We don't bundle up at those temps. DS will be in pants and a shirt. I might have a sweatshirt on. At night DS sleeps in cotton jammies, no socks. Sheet, blanket, quilt - which he kicks off. I sleep in a cotton nightgown with socks. Sheet, blanket, comforter. At some point I kick the socks and the comforter off. We also have ceiling fans going.

[NicaG]

Our house is about 90 years old and drafty and costs a fortune to heat. We keep it around 63 day and night. I'd like to keep it cooler at night, but my ds frequently kicks off his blankets (and then wakes me up to replace them), and I can't seem to bundle my dd in enough layers to keep her in a colder room (though I just ordered some really thick blanket sleepers from LL Bean, so maybe we'll try).

My 14 months old wears pants, a long-sleeve onesie, and a sweater during the day, and socks and Robeez-type shoes. At night, she wears a long-sleeve onesie, cotton pjs, and a blanket sleeper.

My ds (he's 4.5) wears pants, a short sleeve shirt, and a sweater during the day, and cotton pjs and socks at night (with a mid-weight polyester-stuffed comforter). The temp never bothers him during the day. I asked him if he wanted some slippers, but he says his feet are never cold.

Our bedroom is in the attic, and the radiator doesn't really work up there, and there appears to be very little insulation. It's probaby 50 degrees at night, maybe lower. I wear flannel pajamas, a fleece sweatshirt, and socks, and then I have a cotton blanket and a heavy comforter on the bed. We turn on a space heater for a few minutes at bedtime, to take the chill out of the air.

At night I have warm mist humidifiers in both kids' rooms, and it helps regulate the temp and keeps it a little warmer.

There are some decent, safe space heaters on the market these days--that might be a solution in some kids' rooms if you can't all agree on a temperature.

[Anastasiya]

We keep the house fluctuating between 67 and 69 during the day.

The kids wear normal clothes, ALWAYS sockless which annoys me because their feet are so cold, but they don't seem to care. The baby (9 months) wears tights because he's crawling and I couldn't keep socks on him. Since he is closest to the floor I thought tights would help keep his legs/feet warmer, and they do.

At night, just regular cotton jammies here, heat at 66 or 67, kids covered with their down blankets - they're very thin and don't get too hot or too cold. Just right.

DH and I have a wool comforter. No other blankets - we don't even use top sheets.

Baby sleeps in one piece long underwear jammies with a fleece Halo Sleepsack and sometimes a hat if it's really chilly.

[sunnmama]

We have the thermostat set at 67*. Usually, we keep it at 65*; I'm not sure why it is higher this year, but I'll probably bump it down for when we travel this week, and keep it low thereafter.

I'm always cold. I wear socks, slippers, pants, a sweater, and my robe most of the time, lol.

My kids are always hot. They kick off all the covers and sleep in a single layer of pjs each. If I tried to put a thick sleeper or blanket on my sleeping babies, they would wake up sweaty .

Dh walks around in shorts and tshirts.

I'd let the kids self-regulate. As long as the house is a livable temp (and 65 is livable, imo), they can stay warm by moving faster! (my dad says kids never get cold, they just move faster, lol)

[eclipse]

I agree with letting the kids self regulate. My kids are almost never cold, and last week was the first time they willingly wore sweaters and socks in the house, because it was around 58 during the day in here (we don't have any heating, so our only recourse in the even of cold is to layer up). I was huddled under a couple of warm blankets, two pairs of socks, and flannel pjs, and they were fine in light long pansts, sweat shirts, and socks/light slippers. Anyhow, even though I'm the coldest one in the house, I think I'd set the temp for people who run hotter. A cold person can put on more layers, but there's only so much someone can strip down.

[SaraC]

I let my kids wear/sleep in whatever they want. Our house is hard to heat so I am always adjusting it to suit my needs. It gets really hot upstairs so I tend to keep the heat down to compensate for that. I often leave the baby in her cotton footed PJs all day unless we go somewhere. My 2year old will wear whatever suits her fancy which can be just panties, a t-shirt, or full blown outfit including jacket.

DH sleeps in PJ bottoms. I sleep in ss t-shirt/cotton PJ pants or t-shirt/undies. Baby sleeps some in her bed or in our bed and wears cotton footed jammies mainly because I hate having her cold feet on my stomach when we nurse. We co-sleep with cotton top sheet, cotton woven blanket, and a comforter that I made. It is pretty heavy but I like to be cold with heavy blanket when I sleep. Baby sleeps in between with blankets or in her bed beside us with a blanket.

My 2-year old sleeps in her own bed wearing whatever she wants. PJs, t-shirt, leotard is all ok here. She has a fleece blanket that she uses and seems to be fine.

My older two wear whatever PJs they want which consist of PJs, shirts/shorts, leggins, etc. They both have comforters on their beds and a fleece/fuzzy blanket that they can use as well.

[LiamnEmma]

We keep our house in and around 73 during the afternoon/evening, and at 64 for sleeping. My kids have compromised by wearing robes over their undies. As they've gotten older they've become more naturally modest and thus, cover up. But the thing about the feet drives me crazy. We have wood floors that are cold. So anyway, maybe try a robe?