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Original poster

To think the mum asking for money in the park after her children go round...

54 replies

k2togm1 · 22/08/2012 17:07

Offering cakes is not right?

I don't have anything against the kids entrepreneurial spirit, but I would not, if I was their mum, go with them and do the asking for money for them. AIBU? The girl is at least 8yo and was accompanied by her younger brother.

OP posts:
tethersend · 22/08/2012 17:50

You are not allowed to use children to sell your goods, regardless of how they've been prepared.

LineRunner · 22/08/2012 17:52

The mum's got a bit carried away with Junior Apprentice, I reckon.

NellyJob · 22/08/2012 17:54

what a cheek!
reminds of one bloke way back in the day in a squat communal house who used to offer everyone a bowl of stew and then demand a pound after they had eaten it.
low.

JumpingThroughMoreHoops · 22/08/2012 17:54

You are not allowed to use children to sell your goods, regardless of how they've been prepared.

Better arrest all the Y6's on the cake sale tables

And should the police be well, policing boot fairs where every short person is wrapping up bits of old tat and snatching coins?

whiteandyelloworchid · 22/08/2012 17:55

if it was done sneakily ie heres a cake then the mum turned up sayign thats 50p please then thats out of order.

but i can't actually see thet happening?

more like they were just floggiing cakes, that i have no problem with

WillNeverGetALicence · 22/08/2012 17:56

I would be pretty irritated with this if they were raising money for themselves - perhaps especially if I knew they had a 4 x 4, etc!

If they were fund raising for a charity I might feel slightly differently...

But no, actually, I would find this a bit pushy. I would feel bad about refusing to buy a cake from cute gap toothed kid and then would feel cross that I had been made to feel bad.

I think it's taking advantage of people really. And I know that if the 3 and 1 yr old were offered a cake they would grab it and guzzle it and then I would feel obliged to pay up! Angry

exoticfruits · 22/08/2012 18:02

I wouldn't have taken it even if offered free. The DCs were always taught not to accept things from people they don't know-so it isn't a problem.

whiteandyelloworchid · 22/08/2012 18:04

we used to sell allsorts when we were kids, we even used to pull up daffodils, wrapmthem in newspapers to make bunches, then sell then for 20p a bunch.

then we used to buy loads and loads of sweets.
and eat them all

we used to offer to wash cars cut grass, do gardening etc

our parents would have gone mad if they knew lol

JumpingThroughMoreHoops · 22/08/2012 18:04

it's probably some exaggerated game of shop-keepers.

bizarre, but harmless.

crikeybill · 22/08/2012 18:28

How did the mum ask ? I just can't imagine it.
How much did she charge ?

Original poster
k2togm1 · 22/08/2012 18:29

I don't know what happened every single time because I did not follow them around, but it happened once, girl offers cake, other child mum asks her child to choose one and says thank you, selling girl's mum then says 'it's 20p then'.
Tbh if I knew nothing about them I'd been more ready to give them the benefit of the doubt.

OP posts:
RedHelenB · 22/08/2012 19:23

That's why the kids are at fee paying schools lol!!!

NCForNow · 22/08/2012 20:05

{starts baking}

I'm sending the kids out tomorrow...all day with a barrow-full!

"That's a paaaannnd!"

I'll prime my tough 4 year old to do the collecting...the 8 year old can wheel the barrow.

JustFabulous · 22/08/2012 20:10

I had a kid at my door asking me to donate some money for a bun to raise money to put plants on the green. The green that was nowhere near my house Hmm. The buns didn't look that good either.

PropertyNightmare · 22/08/2012 20:11

Jesus! You should have told the scag to fuck off begging. Bet she sucks cocks down the docks of an evening....

HokeyCokeyPigInAPokey · 22/08/2012 20:13

We have made shortbread and chocolate krispie cakes today, we back on to a park, i am going to get round their first thing....i'll send cute dd2 in first and then hit them up for the cash!!

FutTheShuckUp · 22/08/2012 20:13

A 4x4 AND 4 kids at a fee paying school? No wonder she needs to sell cakes in the park!

NCForNow · 22/08/2012 20:16

Hokey My DC have already got dibs on that beat....

AGiraffeOnTheDivingBoard · 22/08/2012 20:21

When my hamster gave birth to a litter which in turn then gave birth to litters and we were overrun - my DBs & DS and I used to sell them for 10p. We'd drum up business at school and people would come round and buy them up. Pretty sure a few parents were probably a bit Shock when their DCs came home from school. My parents didn't know

BagofHolly · 22/08/2012 20:37

Do her kids offer to "mind your car"?

HokeyCokeyPigInAPokey · 22/08/2012 20:49

Just as well NC i we have just eaten all the krispie cakes Blush

Sawdust · 22/08/2012 20:51

No, that's on. It's made out to be a kind gesture before the mum comes in asking for money! I don't always take money to the park - how would she deal with that one?!

BagofHolly · 22/08/2012 20:54

Sawdust, she'd take it out of your face, innit! Grin

SmallWhiteWine · 22/08/2012 21:32

I was at the quite middle class and awfully nice beach the other day and bought 3 mackerels from a group of older tween children. They'd got up early, gone fishing, brought mackerel and crabs back, learnt how to gut them properly and were selling them on the beach all day. Wow!! I was incredibly impressed and bought three large ones for the grand price of £5 in total and they very sweetly wrapped them up in newspaper for me and told me about how early they'd got up and how thrilled they were my purchase had taken them over £60 between them.
And jolly lovely those fish were too! Grin I was dead impressed (especially that they'd learnt how to gut the things themselves). They were working really hard all day and good luck to them. They certainly gave us a lovely supper.
So, I think a bit of entrepreneurship is just fab to see, as long as presented in the right way upfront and driven by the TWEENS and TEENS inspiration and hard work, not the parents...

HildaOgden · 22/08/2012 21:36

Did anyone pay her?I think it's odd too!