...to think that scooters shouldn't be used at the zoo?

[SoozyWoozy]

I'm really not sure if I was just being stressy and intolerant and therefore BU, or if I genuinely have a point?!

We took our 3 DCs to the zoo over the Easter holidays. I expected it to be busy, but it was really busy - normally not a problem. The crowds, the scooters and me really didn't mix.

My DCs all have scooters, but I wouldn't let them use them at the zoo or in a very busy place. I was surprised at how many children were on scooters at the zoo - and they really were a nuisance. The zoo we were at is very open and hilly, so the children were making the most of the environment and zooming around. I'm sure they were having a great time, but dodging them and pulling my DCs out of the way of a collision about to happen wasn't so much fun. The parents were seemingly no-where to be seen, and so the children weren't being told to be careful, slow down etc.

I've always thought of scooters as entertainment in themselves - What's wrong with walking, talking to each other and taking it all in - these kids were just bombing around... expensive entry into a hilly park really

So, am I an U, grumpy old moo?! :)

sounds dangerous tbh

Sort of depends on how the thing's used really. I don't mind if the kids scoot next to their parents but the whizzing off around thing does my head in too. I have a hearing impaired DS and he can't hear dings or the rackety noise the scooter makes behind him.

If mine are scooting in busier areas the rule is that they scoot next to me. If they scoot off ahead it gets carried and they walk. We only tend to take them if there is a lot of walking involved as they get less tired on wheels.

Oh, and tube stations/indoors of any description are OFF limits to our scooters too.

YABU. I'd Love to see a giraffe on a scooter.

TiggyD :o

I saw kids with scooters at the National History Museum in London last week, why would people think that was a good idea?

I know we will go to the museum/zoo/town and take our scooters

I completely agree. It's fine if they're next to you but not if they scoot off into the distance. And it's not fine at the zoo or in a museum etc.

At my son's school they hurtle across the playground on their scooters and I've seen a few head-on collisions. Worse, though, is after the kids have been dropped off, some of the mums get on the scooters to go home. Seriously. My toddler was nearly wiped out by a scooting mum the other day. I was NOT impressed.

Definately yanbu if it was marwell. The scooters there are lethal on those hill and they've got a tractor train so little legs don't have to walk to far.

DH and I were commenting on this the other day after we both nearly fell over a mob of microscooting toddlers, who were going backwards and forwards on a really narrow pavement while their parents just simpered to one another.
It seems a microscooting child has become the new must have accessory in certain circles, the next step from the 'in' pram I think.

As a non-driver I know they can be useful on long journeys but they seem to be being used instead of walking at all.

Oh goodness, it wouldn't even occur to me that they would be allowed in zoos, museums and shopping centres. As someone with mobility and balance problems children on scooters have caused me no end of frights and injuries.

It wouldnt occur to us to take scooters into a museum. There's plenty of things to do at the science museum and we don't want to be carrying them about either.

We only let them scoot to nursery when DH is about to carry them home as we don't want them left at nursery. They are only allowed to scoot ahead of us through the park and where there are no driveways. Anywhere close to driveways and reversing cars, they have to stay alongside us.

It really does depend on the parents, surely? My youngest scooters a mile each way to school, with a helmet. She's three. Too old for a pushchair, too young to regularly walk a mile without winging.

I'd always take one to the zoo, not that I have yet, as you tend to walk MILES and I am not carrying a three year old...

Why should I not be allowed to have a scootering child alongside me just because other parents allow their children to go wild on them?

So yes, I think you are BU to blame scooters or the children. Blame the parents by all means though

You answered your own question. It's because others allow them to 'go wild on them'.