children standing up in trolleys in supermarkets.....

[kelway]

just wondered how other people felt when they see a women pushing a trolley around a supermarket with their sprog standing in the trolley? my point is that i would never have allowed my dd to do that as that is where you/other people put your food (there could be dogs muck on their shoe). have seen this more and more lately. i can understand the odd situation that might require this ie ill child too tired to walk or something tragic like that but the kids i have seen look fine (if not a little spoilt) to me

I've let my son do thos before.

But ONLY when he has dogshit on his shoes

:o

I don't like it either for the same reason, plus it's dangerous IMO.

Where do yo think the trolley's are stored? Outside in the rain, by car fumes, surely you no one thinks these are clean so I don't see the problem!

Safety, fine, but if you really think that trolleys are clean, you're very much misguided. Shoes are not the worst of your problems.

And as for your example, I would never eat a bread roll if it touched a public space, whether trolley, train seat, whatever. For anything else, if not prepackaged, wash it thoroughly when you get home. Some people don't wash their hands after going to the toilet, then touch everything.

Anyway, as long as it's pushed so won't tip over, I'd rather have someone's child standing in a trolley if that keeps them happy than a tired tantrum in the store.

I don't understand why anyone thinks it's dangerous!!

I pushed two little girls around in the front compartment of the trolley. They were pretending to be Kate and Leonardo from Titanic. It was fun.

Charliesmommy I would prefer to do food shopping alone, but my dh works abroad so I just have to suck it up, and anything I can do rather than have up to three screaming children works. I do online as much as I can but then we will have a run of running out of essentials so I have to go.

Sweet, short and forgotton something essential.

Kid's shoes are probably one of the more hygienic things to come into contact with your food wrappers. I saw a man sneeze all over the loose peppers in Sainso's last week

YABU

I don't get it though...seriously I don't.

I've raised 3 children and none of them have stood in the bloody trolley that's meant for shopping.

My Mum raised 5 children and none of us stood in it either.

I'm 41yrs old and it's only in the last few years I've ever seen kids standing in the shopping part of the trolley.

Has there been some sort of law passed in my absence that says 'you must give in to your little darlings when they screetch and refuse to sit in the bloody seat part'??

Seriously...they might not like it but there are a few things in life I don't like either...

And don't even start me on parents who wont strap their kids in a buggy on a busy road cos they 'arch their backs'

DS2 does this, but my precious children NEVER have poo on their shoes, I just don't allow it. So don't worry about that.

DS1 sits in the bottom of the trolley and I pile shopping on top of him, I keep expecting to see a thread about the cruelty of this, but he doesn't mind, and it saves the trauma of having him not in the trolley.

This dog lover thinks that YANBU! There is no way I'd have let my DDs stand in a supermarket trolley. Ugh!

PS, XH lets them do it too, but presumably you wouldn't mind since it isn't a woman?

DS does it but he doesn't screech and whine about it. He just likes pretending that he is captain of a ship. I don't see the harm so I let him. Honestly, do people lie awake just conjuring up crap to wring hands about?

That's interesting mutznutz.

I have 3 sisters, and we used to fight, properly, with teeth, to go in the trolley.

But I didn't put my two in the trolley. Not because i was civic minded, I shamefully admit, but because I was quite neurotic, and worried about them falling out, or getting hurt in some way.

This thread comes up a lot, OP. Just to warn you. It's new to you (and tbh, it was to me, when I joined mn,) but there are mn-ers who have opinions on this subject, honed and focused from repeated combat, on this issue. And it might get quite bumpy if it makes it into the morrow.

OP have you had some awful experience with dog poo? You seem to think that the shoes of all under 10s are blathered in it.

Shopping with small children can be a nightmare, if parents need to put them in the trolley then who cares.

i've read the responses that disagree with me and have had my eyes opened or should i say my mind especially having read Motherjack's response and have certainly toned down my once objectionable attitude towards it and understand that there are times when it is necessary but with regards to mothers who just 'do it' and i see this often when the child doesn't appear to have a real reason to be doing it whatever has been said, however dirty the trolleys may already be, the underside of a shoe that belongs to a toddler ie 4 year old who walks along the street is more dirty. there is spit, sick as well as dog poo all of which can end up on the packaging that then sits in your cupboard. however tired dd was or whatever mood she was in i never put her in the trolley however i am aware that if you have more than one then shopping i am sure would be alot harder so i have a more open mind to it, i see it from both ways, i take on board what the opposition says, not everyone around here seems to do that

I'm all for it, I'd much rather have them sitting (not standing) in the trolley than getting bashed into by people not looking where they are going (even when they are holding onto the trolley/my hand) - much less of a hazzard and HA HA HA HA HA if you actually think the bottom of a trolley is clean.

I got bollocked by a Tesco security guard for this...the arse.

DD1 will push DD2 (13) in a trolley when they think I'm not looking.
Always have to hide a :o when I see it almost spiral out of control in the frozen isle.

kirsty - actually, i do have a thing about dog poo, there are some drunks that live in the road i live in and they go out on the piss with these two heaving dogs and leave (i'm not kidding) trails of the stuff on the school run route up the road. every bloody morning and afternoon we have to wind our way up and down the street in a zig zag to avoid either the poo or the footsteps that poor previous sods have created having walked in it, subsequently i have built up a bit of an aversion to it. i have had to clean the stuff off footwear so many times, it gets harder instead of easier, and the SMELL......

I couldn't care less.

Rather that than kids shrieking about.

I avoid loose packaged stuff since DP told me he saw someone spit in the baskets of olives in Waitrose in Cheltenham. I mean I ask you. God knows what they hurl in the olives in Morrisons in Stoke.

I let DD do this because she is a 'spirited' 24 months old child, I am 9 months pregnant with #2 and sometimes it is the only way to placate her while I finish the shopping. And frankly, dirty looks from mothers with 'perfect' children make really annoyed. I just think "yeah, you're smug now with your placid child sitting in the trolley seat, but your next one might be like mine, and then you won't be so smug"

p'raps they don't have baskets of olives in Stoke.

What's going in the olives in the olive packing factory

I think Nick Clegg should launch an enquiry into this sort of nihilistic behaviour.

Fess time - when I go shopping with dd, it's me in the trolley and she pushes ME around. Good prep. for her for time to come.