On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 09:18:28PM -0000, Margery Allcock wrote:
> Weronika wrote:
> Can anyone explain why children always have to wear mittens and not real
> gloves??
>
> Maybe it starts when a child is a baby - can you imagine a mother dressing a
> wriggly baby in tiny gloves with separate tiny fingers? Mittens do simplify
> the process. And the mother keeps on giving the child mittens until it's
> big enough to put its own gloves on or complain about the mittens? Just a
> guess ...
That all makes sense. I was wearing mittens long after I complained about them,
but that might've been because you couldn't buy child-sized gloves in Poland
when I was a kid... Well, or just because my mom believed kids should wear
mittens <g>.
They do keep you warmer, except when you're a 9-year-old who really cares about
making good snowballs and so you take them off all the time to play in the snow,
like I did... <g>
Weronika
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Weronika Patena
Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
http://vole.stanford.edu/weronika
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