People shopping on a Sunday.

[mrsgetonwithit]

Another thread about kids in shops after 8pm got me thinking about this.

When I am out and about on a Sunday [or Bank hols] I am amazed at the amount of people taking their kids shopping on a Sunday.

I work every bank hol and when its a beautiful day there they are dragging their kids around the shops.

Why don't people [some] take their kids to the beach or moors or park anymore.

When I was young every Sunday my dad used to take my bro and I either swimming or fishing or the moors/beach for a few hours on a Sunday morn. My mum stayed home to cook the roast and then we palyed games in the garden or board games indoors after the meal.

This was a family day spent with the family.

So the question is What do you do on a Sunday?

Please don't say they shop on a Sunday because they work all week because shops are open late and on Saturdays.

Another smug woman who has a helpful partner, husband or ex who gives a shit about her children and not only doesn't have to take her young children everywhere with her but has no conceptioon of what it's like for those of us who did or still do.

What do you suggest that those of us who work Monday to Saturday do? Put the children in the cupboard?

Is it possible to imagine what life's like for those without the funds and means to get their children to the beach from right up there in your lofty ideal world, OP?

Just for you OP

What is the world coming too, eh???

If you dont expose your child to different situations how are they going to learn how to behave.

Troll.

TBH Vallhala someone who is that judgemental about peoples shopping habits I would assume is judgmental about other things as well such as relationship breakdown! That is purely an assumption though (and probably one that I shouldn't make public).

How did you manage to buy such a huge pair of judgey pants on a Sunday?

yanbu, dragging DC around the shops with me is Hellish on any day of the week. To be avoided whenever possible. DC have a plan to go to cinema today and I am having minor panic attacks about the stress of that.

i have 3 kids,due number 4.bedtimes are 6pm dd3,6-30pm dd2,7pm,dd1.playschool pickup at 12pm,school at 3pm,dinner at 4-30pm,bath,bed for smaller ones,shower,homework,bed for older one.in the evenings i catch up on housework,paperwork etc,dh home at 11pm so where the feck am i going to find time to walk 7 miles to trhe nearest supermarket so we can skip around the park on sunday?

Ok, so for someone who works full time in 2 jobs, doesn't have access to Internet shopping and who lives in paradise a country where shops aren't open that late in the evenings - when should I go shopping and when should I spend time with my kids?

My boys like helping with the weekly shop - we use it as an opportunity to practise reading with the older one (labels, signs, posters) and number recognition with the younger one (prices). We also let them have some of their pocket money to choose any item and they have fun working out how much their coins will allow them to buy (so some maths thrown in for good measure).

It's all time spent with them whether it's shopping, running on the beach, cleaning (shock - at 3&4 they help me clean too!), reading - every day is a family day because we are a family. Why keep it solely to Sundays and why judge everyone else on what they choose to do in their own time?

Vallhala and howlonguntiltheweekend - you both make a very good point.

I'm a single parent. I get every other weekend "off" because that's when my XH has the kids (as well as Thursday night but that's only sometimes and he messes me around but that's a whole other thread).

I work full time and take children to activities almost every night of the week. These activities include but are not limited to violin, swimming, karate, horse riding, and cubs/scouts.

Most nights I'm not back in the house from the running around until 8.30.

My youngest DD is too small to be left in the house on her own so she has to come with me.

This means she either has to be in the supermarket in the late evening, which apparently is not allowed, or we go on a Sunday, since Saturdays are horse riding.

What would you suggest I do OP?

And don't suggest online shopping, because actually being IN THE HOUSE in the two hour time slot in the evenings is impossible.

Sunday involves:

Church
Lunch
Walk on the beach
Home for 4pm, chill out with the papers
Pack lunches
Bed!

Bless - pat her on the head and move on ladies....and yes, that was meant to be patronising you silly and vastly unthinking woman.

I agree with the OP but as I am in the minority I shall leave it as that.

You guys are harsh.

It is only her opinion.

take it easy.

[Just joined, don't think I will stay long]

I think you need to have more children OP, then you won't have so much time on your hands to be so fecking nosy about how everyone else is living their lives.

I'm taking DD to mass then going shopping. Does that make me a Sunday traditionalist or a rebel?

I am not sure I could summon up this level of judgement over something like shopping on a Sunday.

Clearly you have judged your way through every legitimate judgeable form of behaviour and woke up in a panic, looked at your shiny judgey pants hanging on the back of the wardrobe and came up with...shopping on a Sunday!

In about 2 hours I will be off to Homebase to buy loft insulation. I will be taking DS as OH has manflu.

Stick that down your judgy pants.

ilovemylife - she posted in AIBU. Implicit in that is acceptance that you might get a battering.

Look around the other boards, it is quite so heated

It'd be far easier to do family stuff on a Sunday AND do the shopping if there weren't these stupid Sunday trading laws.

I've never understood why supermarkets in Scotland can open 24 hours a day 7 days a week but supermarkets in England/Wales can't.

If you post in AM I BEING UNREASONABLE then people are going to tell you what they think.

Read through a few other threads and find it quite nasty here....I thought it would be fun.

I think as a society, we do probably spend too much time shopping. I think that all this rampant consumerism is not really helping our children become more rounded individuals. The " I want, I want" cries will only get worse the more stuff they see. I also know that many parents (including myself) end up semi bribing their dc to be good on shopping trips whether that is through buying them a treat eg magazine etc.

A day spent at the woods would be better for most children than a day at Meadowhall.

how many times will the op leave and then come back?