To think that you should not use the parent/child spaces at the supermarket once your kid is over, say, 5?

[SuzysZoo]

Ok - fine if your child has special needs over 5 but otherwise you should not park there. Surely it means you have a non-walking child/toddler/buggy/car seat. Kids getting out of cars in those spaces in school uniforms annoy me...AIBU?

I am not a Troll. I was trying to start a lively debate and find out if I was unreasonable about the car parking issue. If I had wanted to be deliberately provoking I would have started a debate about babies with earrings!

I dont see why you would need a larger space for a child of five who is almost always capable of getting in and out of a car alone. It doesn't keep me awake at night but I sort of agree.

I park in them with my 5 yr old as though I'm not mobility impaired, I do have a hand/arm disability which makes doing his seatbelt up very tricky and I need a bit of space to faff round in, plus I don't feel as time pressured while I have the door open

Now 4X4 have been mentioned.

I'll raise you a hidden disability.....

What are the rules if you have more than one child and one is under 5???

Do you really 'lurk' by the parking bays?

You actually go around telling disabled and elderly people not to park in Parent and Child spaces.

I hope they tell you to bugger off!!

anyone waiting for a 'in my day we walked to the supermarket, that's why kids are fat'?

Damn, beaten to it.

Do you really stand at P&T spaces and tell a disabled person to gettafuck? You have some nerve.

Not lurk by them exactly but walk that way on purpose to scowl at people who are parking there with no kids. Honestly if more people did this I'd always get a space in P & C!

I always walk or cycle to the supermarket. Parking space envy / wars/ debate is so Other World for some of us.

Doing up carseat straps/seatbelts requires leaning into the car (and hence more space). Not all over-5s can be trusted to do this properly themselves.

I don't recall ever using a P&C parking space tbh (not having a car until ds was 6) but even so, YABU op.

what if the P&C spaces are taken up by genuine P&C customers?

will you ask them all to line up and have a needs assessment?

Ok, so 'with kids' is ok - so if you have more than one and one of them is under 5, is that ok? Need to know, as this is my family set up

Methinks OP has too much time on her hands.

Sorry for the multiple 'oks'

Stuff that. If I have to take my mother to the supermarket, I FULLY expect to be able to park in the parent and child spaces as she is the parent and I am her 'child'. Even though I am 34!

Plus it would go some way towards making up for the fact that she wants to stop for coffee every 14 yards, stops for a chat with random strangers at the end of every aisle and regularly makes very loud and random statements....last one was where she accused me of having been brainwashed by weightwatchers when I said I didn't want any prawns!

If parking in the precious Parent and Child Spaces means I don't completely lose it and beat my mother to death in the produce section with a butternut squash.....who the bloody hell are you to argue, eh? EH?

Suppose you have a child with a hidden disability? Would the age limit be extended for them? Or would you chase said child out of P&C and into disabled spaces?

I cannot for the life of me see a situation when I would have so little to do with my time that I would "lurk" at P&C spaces to glare at the people using them.

I subscribe to the in and out as quick as possible school of supermarket shopping

Weell I like to use P&C spaces when im on my own so I can go to get a Greggs Sausage Roll and a Fruit Shoot. I also use them when I get my baby's ears pierced while I discuss with my friends why I think breastfeeding should be banned.

Disabled spaces is very simple, change the law so that instead of a certain percentage must be disabled regardless of location, there must be sufficient disabled parking close to where people need to get to.
The multi-storey car park miles from the shops with a mouse sized lift always has empty disabled spaces. but they are always full in the shopping centre.
Both for-fill the law, but no way could my disabled Mum cope with the distance curbs and steps from the multi-storey and DDs pushchair wouldn't fit in the lift so her wheelchair is s non starter.
If people saw disabled spaces being used by disabled people not annoyingly empty because they are badly located perhaps just a few would feel less likely to use themsorry slightly off topic rant!

I parked in a P&C parking space this morning because I wanted to nip to the cash machine. I didn't have any dc of any age with me at all If someone had scowled at me I would have ignored them. My behaviour was made all the more unreasonable by the fact that it was the last P&C space!!!

I say ban the fecking things!! why do some parents see themselves as "needy" !! Totally pointless imo why do you need a "special" parking spot? i have 3 DC who all still need car seats and a big massive car!, i manage just fine in a normal sized space!, so why cant you?