We noticed that our kids had the same problems with their mittens that we had with our mittens when we were kids. All the mittens we tried got wet and completely soaked through and snow got in to the wrist and went up inside the coat sleeves. This resulted in cold, wet, miserable feeling hands and wrists. We thought somebody ought to make a better mitten so we had some mittens made that were waterproof and had an extra-long cuff that went way up the arm to protect the wrist from the cold snow.