HEELIES.............annoying children

I had rollerboots when I was a kid, and I would whizz up to the local shops on them, then walk into the shop on the stopper thingy. No difference IMO.

never even heard of them. I'm out of it.

lol no kids after 1pm lol.

Now there's an idea.......!

So when my dd is right next to me not skating as such just rolling along.

I said if the kids are rolling around everywhere then fair enough it is stupid and dangerous.

At the end of the day they are only kids, i would have loved a pair when i was younger.

i think this whole heely thing is blown way over the top. If it's not heelys it's moterised scooters, or something else.

Ban kids from shops altogether??

My mum used to make me ride my bike to my Granny's (which was about 4 miles and on main roads) and I was so wobbly on it, I used to fall off all the time! I would cry most of the way there, while my brother would race off (he was yrs younger and learnt to ride a bike before me) I had stabilisers until I was 7 or 8 and it looks like my DD is the same, she's useless on a bike (or at any sport TBH!). She wants heelies but there's not a cat in hells chance she'll get them, she'd roll right under a car without a second thought, either that or knock and old lady down. Either way, she is not the sort of child that heelies were designed for!

Kids should not be and should not be allowed to skate around the shops full stop.
IT IS STUPID AND DANGEROUS

lol

I was scared of rollerboots and rollerskates (I'm getting old, I remember rollerskates!) and skateboards and I wasn't overly keen on bikes. I was a wuss (and I still am because I'm scared stiff of heelies!)

Afew more thoughts on this

Yes i understand that if a shops busy and you got kids zipping around knocking everyone flying... yes that;s wrong. But if the parent and child are responsible and aware of other people i can't see the harm. They are just like rollerboots in my day except the wheels are different.

It's unfair to say that just because the children have heelys that the parent's are stupid. On dd has them, yes she's worn them into town. She's worn them in shops but i make her walk or i threated to take them off. i hold her hand so she don't go heelying off or get in people's way. I knocked an old lady over when i was little for skipping( not with a rope), gonna cut my feet off??

Sorry but I dont agree with all of things some of you are saying , I think Heelies are great as long as you make sure your children wear them in the right places like the garden , park etc. I would much rather have my daughter playing outside or even in our hallway ( it is laminate flooring ) on her heelies than be stuck playing on a playstation for hours a day . She has worn them to Sainsburys once but she wasnt allowed to scoot around the aisles she had to stay close to our trolley and she was no danger to anyone at the end of the day they are children and want to have fun as long as they are used correctly and in the right places I say every child should have a pair they are fab.

Was in Tesco's yesterday queueing for a coffee in the cafe before I began the big shop, when a girl of about 9 tripped, spluttered and rolled past me about 100 times. Back and forth, back and forth, just when I though "I hope she falls!" She did. She had no control over what she was doing.
They are really annoying. Ds1 wants some, "NO WAY" I told him "NEVER"!

Booboo - sometimes I think it's pretty much the only one.

Yup damm sure it isn't good for their muscles to be walking on their toes.

Being PG gives you such a good excuse to be self-righteous doesn't it sazzy? It's one of the few perks IMO.

They have banned them from our leisure centre thank god, fed up with kids battering into me. Overheard a couple of mums saying how terrible it was to ban them as they had nowhere else to go on them.

The parents were even encouraging them to whizz about the gymhall after they had finished their gymnastic session before leaving, while the next group are trying to get ready, I was so wanting to say do you mind buggering off so we can get the next session started and I am sure wheels scraping up and down the gym hall floor weren't doing it any good either.

I'd quite like a pair myself really

Booboobedoo - 'In fact I've taken to walking with my elbows out and a dead fierce expression on my face to counteract it.' I'm going to quite miss my legitimate barging into people on the tube ;)

furcoat, ah, the bike sheds, I remember those days...

Yes my dd does clomp arround like the proverbial... she doesnt wear them all the time. She does have other pairs of shoes.

GM - my dd and her friends just seem to have such fun on them and dont wheel in public places, neither have I been run over by unsupervised-manic-wheeling-bratz thats probably why im a zealot on this

As I said before, im just so glad they are'nt round the back of the bike sheds smoking and giving blow-jobs (hopefully not at the same time anyway!)or making uni-bombs or other scary things. - Saying that prehaps they use the wheels to get from the bike sheds to the scary non-recycling-basement flats quicker.....hummmmm?

I saw strap on wheels in the Science Museum gift shop this past week for around a tenner. Maybe not as 'cool' as heelies, but maybe not as dangerous either?

Still, I resisted the urge to purchase some for birthday presents, as I thought parents wouldn't thank me...

I think they're fantastic. I'd have loved a pair when I was a kid.

What a cool toy.

People wheel buggies over my toes/bash into my huge pregnant bump all the time. In fact I've taken to walking with my elbows out and a dead fierce expression on my face to counteract it.

Haven't notice the Heelies making things any worse.

"You dont have to take the wheels off for the child to be able to walk"

but they can't walk properly can they?? whenever I've seen a child try to walk in the things they're clumping along or tiptoeing.