aibu to hate seeing kids sitting in shopping trollies?

[mrsfuzzy]

shoes that have walked in god knows what and in the trolley where food goes, never thought about it until i saw a trolley with mud in it at local supermarket !

My almost 6 year old sits in the trolly because he is autistic and he struggles to understand that there is more than one section in the supermarket eg the magazine aisle. He's getting to heavy to carry around now and I don't feel comfortable using the sn trolly.

I've not read the thread. But I have seen 3 children fall out. They were aged around 3, 5 and 8. All had working legs, too.

Mine sits quietly reading or on his tablet, sometimes with ear-defenders on (coping with supermarkets being a work in progress) but OP wasn't talking about children standing which is dangerous I agree.

Nice to see a "lazy" comment on this very thread. As if life isn't hard enough for parents of children with additional needs and the children themselves.

And before the inevitable, "but I wasn't talking about children with SN, I was talking about the spoilt, idle naughty ones", you can't tell from looking at a child whether they have a disability or not.

I can't believe the amount of posters that are ok with this! It gives me the RAGE. If I'm out wit my children and we see children in trollies like this they know that I will be glaring at the family. When did this even become a thing? My children are 17 and 12 and nobody did this when they were young. If I was the manager of a supermarket it would be one of the first rules I would put in place. Seriously, the trolly is for shopping, not for lazy parents or lazy children. Stop putting you children in shopping trollies!!!

If it bugs you that much what are you doing about the lack of suitable trolleys for parents of disabled children? Perhaps you need to be a bit less free with your glares

My children ride in the body of the trolley - (age 7 and 5). Sometimes there's hardly enough room for groceries.

They don't have special needs, they're not lazy, I'm not lazy, they don't find it hard to walk around the supermarket, they're not badly behaved. They don't take off their shoes. They do it because it is FUN and why the hell not. It doesn't do anyone else any harm. If some miserable bat was to glare at me I'd smile right back and carry on letting my kids enjoy their childhood, whilst minding my own damn business.

If it's that much of an issue to take your children to the supermarket why not go on your own? Or internet shop and let me have my trolley just for my food

I could keep DS at home I suppose, but he would stop making progress coping with an activity which is a crucial life skill. Does that sound fair?

I used to do it because my dc both have ASD and I needed to have them confined in one place.

I didn't and don't care what people thought.

I can safely say this is not something I've ever worried about.

"My children are 17 and 12 and nobody did this when they were young." Of course they were. They were doing it when I was a child and I'm considerably older than your children! And some people don't get an option about taking their children to the supermarket MumoftheBoyAndGirl.

If anyone glared at me they'd likely have been asked told where to go so I hope the glaring poster is ready for that.

The glarey fuckers should just shop online. Problem solved!

MumoftheBoyandtheGirl
Probably best if you do your shopping via the internet, it would save all that unnecessary rage and glaring. In fact, best for everyone all round if you just stay at home. All of the time.

I once let DD after going on and on and on in the shopping bit of the trolley, I took her out and let her scream after the woman on the tannoy they told the woman in pop aisle to remove her child from the trolley and sit her in the child seat

after the woman on the tannoy told the woman in the pop aisle to remove her child from the trolley and sit her in the child seat

I do this with my children, after a long day at school my eldest is tired, I'd rather her rest a little while I shop, she knows not to stand up in the trolley and food comes in packaging anyway.

What are you meant to do when there are no double trolleys and you have 2 non walking children?

not this again - don't get me wrong, I am Mrs clean, but kids shoes in trolleys won't make them any dirtier than they already are - left out in the rain and the food you put in it is all wrapped up anyway.

MumoftheBoyandtheGirl Seriously? People with children with additional needs should somehow find a way to never take their children to the supermarket? I don't put my DS in the trolley but it baffles me that anyone is that bothered. How on earth does it affect you?

YANBU.

This used to enrage DS2 when he was young. He was a stickler for rules and it was against the rules. He use to wander around behind us pointing and muttering at wrongdoers.

"Can't they read?" he'd ask, loudly.

Doesn't bother me. Food is in packets, even veg is put in bags. I prefer that to toddlers running around in shops

MythicalKings I hope your DS has learned to take a more relaxed attitude to life these days.
Becoming enraged at petty rule breakers won't get him far in life.

Mud in trolley would bother me. Parent should have thought and store should deal with cleaning such trolleys. However lifelong bags in place of disposable bags or ones that now deteriorate within weeks, bother me and so wasn't surprised when only this week that morning BBC 1 programme with the 3 women (Gloria Hunniford and team) did a bit on germs and lifelong bags. Easy to see germs everywhere though.

But a lot of produce is dirty too.
Potatoes, a fresh chicken, even though packed will have its share of microbes on the packaging, leeks have mud on them etc.
Trolleys will have had seagulls and pigeons pooping and foraging in them.
Supermarkets, wrapped produce and trolleys are not clean environments.

Witnessed a child who was standing in a trolley overreach and somehow the trolley toppled over... Toddler sibling was in seat part by handle... Not a good sight!