To think that my son should not have been able to trap his hand in the Next lift?

[maggiethemagpie]

I was shopping at the big Next store in Manchester city centre today. We were coming down in the lift from the children's department to street level and my three year old son put his hand in the gap between the doors and the wall, when the lift stopped the doors opened and squashed his hand - I had to pull it out. I didn't see what he was doing as I was preoccupied with my other child.

Although I can understand that the door has to go somewhere when it opens am I right in thinking that a lift in a shop selling children's clothes, so there is likely to be a lot of kids using it, should be more childproof than that?

I can't fault next management once alerted they came and took a statement and said they'd call their lift engineer out but surely it should not have happened in the first place?

Ah, the temptation of the little flap on the VHS player. Remember that well.

Might be a good thread. Those quite dangerous everyday things that are soooo tempting to do but you know you mustn't. Knife down the toaster anyone?

Would the lift attendant have a bell-hop type uniform?

They'd have to tip their hat at anyone who came in, surely?

Coping strategies for toddlers as a council tax funded course? Lift personnel so that parents don't have to supervise their offspring? chopin is the gift that never stops giving.
OP I hope your child is ok but hopefully he'll be more careful in future. In common with most sensible posters I don't think you can blame Next.

it amazes me how many perfect parents we have in this country ones that watch their children like hawks 24/7 . Before ant of you pass judgement on what this parent was trying to achieve put yourselves in her shoe . in may this year I was taking my young nephew and niece homw with me for the weekend they are aged two and half and four . We got into a lift at a busy London underground station the lift mesurements are around 6 by 4 I also had with me an older niece and her daughter in a buggy . as we got in another lady got in with her small child in a buggy the lift has two doors one to enter and one to exit .And yes I was holding both childrens hands when we reached the bottom the lift door opened with such force it dragged the two and half year old hand into the gap which the doors slides of course then panic struck all of us because we couldn't shut the doors because his hand was preventing the door from moving thank god for a security guard who was working at the station who manged to drag the door open and release his hand each of his fingers were terribly bruised and had dents for several hours after . Apart from the trauma of thw whole situation there have been no lasting effects other than he wont get into a lift any more . I reported the problem to tfl and still up to yesterday ive had no conclusions I suggested a sign to warn of the possibility of trapped hands .Now today I receive an mail stating to many signs cause to many issues ?. And if id like to claim compensation to fill in an attached form I have stated clearly in every correspondence that compensation is not an issue for me im just not interested because yes accidents happens just awareness for what could happen and acknowledgement that the incident did happen is enough.Now to all that are have sat judging this lady think twice maybe she just wants others to be aware of the danger lifts are and lets hope by the grace of god none of yous are ever in a similar situation

Of course parents sometimes take their eyes off children and something unfortunate happens. We've all been there.
The issue though is some people always looking for someone else to 'blame', instead of just sucking it up, learning from it and moving on. It's not just parents, but there's this annoying culture of 'who can I sue', 'who can I blame' when anything happens.
I remember a few years ago when we had exceptionally bad snow in Ireland and websites were full of queries about 'whose fault is it if I slip on some uncleared snow outside someone's house/shop etc'. It's snow, people slip on it, get over it.

YABU. My son got his hand stuck in a similar fashion at about the same age - there was no harm done although it was a bit harrowing at the time!

Small kids get themselves stuck in all manner of daft ways, not everything cab be sealed all the way round to stop it from happening.

And BTW thus was in John Lewis with two adults and two kids.

Why on earth would a sign stop this from happening? It was an accident.

My son did similar as a toddler when out in town with his Gran, no damage done. She was mortified it'd happened whilst in her care, I saw it as a lesson learned.

This thread is hilarious.

Am at coping strategies for pre-schoolers...

OP - YABU and looking for someone to blame. It was an accident, accidents happen.

It's a lift. Children need supervising. If you took him in there you should be making sure he keeps his fingers safe. Yabu

Same thing happened in Asda,they gave us a chocolate and £20 gift card,child happy,will get some new toy.

Zombie thread - this happened 5 years ago!

He should have been supervised in a lift - make sure you treat this as a "don't do that again" rather than keep moaning about how irresponsible the store is, giving your child the impression that it's absolutely fine to test shoving his fingers in every nook and cranny.

Things happen to kids all the time, should we wrap everything up in cotton wool just because YOU got distracted? Your child your responsibility. Hundreds of kids will have used that lift with no issues

Zombie thread

It's OK - the child is 8 now so it probably doesn't happen so often.