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 !

When my twins were small I always had to have one in the main part of the trolley as the stupid supermarket didn't have twin trolleys or you couldn't find them.

Bizarre all food has tons of packaging round it the rubbish I see in trollies anyway I would never smear my cream cake round the trolly then try and lick it off.

Germ phobic indeed but struggle to see how one can pick up the germs from child in supermarket trolly

If they are too big too sit in the trolley child seat, then they are old enough to walk around sensibly.

not if the supermarket is the last place you go at the end of a long day.

Remember one reason asthma is on the rise is children are not in touch with enough dirt!

If you don't want to run "risks" with trollies order your shopping on line. Tesco charge £1 to deliver to us.

A lot of killjoys on this thread.
It's fun for kids to sit in trolleys.

In the great scheme of things does it really matter?

It's fun for kids to sit in trolleys
poor kids

Old girl here,going to Waitrose tomorrow in the busy young peoples time slot,because I can.

Taking my wet wipes for the trolley handle as usual.(preening)

Now you tell me of this fresh hell of poo- shoes and rats and birds IN the trolley?

Manically busy googling for one of those long fabric baguette bags now.

[[http://articles.mcall.com/2014-02-08/news/mc-shopping-cart-injuries-20140208_1_cart-accidents-shopping-hospital-emergency-departments,from the following article 24000 accidents a year in the US]]

" Little children have a higher center of gravity than adults, so if they lean over the edge of the cart, they're more likely to lose balance. Then, because they lack arm strength, they are unable to break their falls."

My dc had plenty of fun and adventure in life, they just didn't need to get it by sitting in the basket of a shopping trolley.

Now what is dangerous is the toddler I have just seen being pushed around balancing on the front of the trolley!

analysis of shopping trolley accidents

'Injury type: The most frequently occurring injury diagnoses were superficial (28%), open wounds (19%), and intracranial injury (18%). '

We have mini kid sized trollies and car trollies here (which is a plastic car struck on the front of a trolley) so I've never seen a kid in a trolley, it makes shopping way more enjoyable when you can get the toddler to push the trolley .
As for the dirt angle, the packaging and food inside it is probably dirtier than the trolley anyway!

Ds has "working legs" but he will run off wherever he wants to go unless I hold on to him (which makes shopping difficult) and he will pull things off shelves as we go past them. Eventually it will all become too much and he will be on the floor, blocking the aisle and grabbing and kicking at people that walk past.

Children without additional needs need to be contained in the seat provided...or walk.
It is lazy to place your child in the food area "for fun"
Children can be taught from an early age that that is where the food/products go.
However, what hopefully should happen is that we should badger our supermarkets in to providing adapted trollies. Like the ones illustrated up thread.
Mothers with more than one child also need better provision. More trollies with more than one seat need to be more available.
I remember (as a little girl) that the tops of some trollies had a carrycot shapped metal compartment. :)

Mothers with more than one child also need better provision
I thought most trolleys were double ones to be honest. Our big Tesco has a huge range of trolleys.
small ones that attach to wheelchairs
the car ones mentioned above
trolleys with a large seat illustrated above.
trolleys with a tray thing for laying babies in.

I am assuming that people making brilliant remarks like 'if they are too big for the seat, they are big enough to walk' have factored in 2yr olds the size of 4yr olds etc.?

I am assuming that people making brilliant remarks like 'if they are too big for the seat, they are big enough to walk' have factored in 2yr olds the size of 4yr olds etc.?

I had one like that he still, went in proper seat until he was safe enough to walk.

And what do you do of you have a baby and two crazy twin toddlers.they don't make triple seats! Believe me putting them in the trolley is safer for you all!

Your trolleys must be different Bruffin, or your child has a better ability to bend his knees backwards than mine.

Bruffin, I have never seen a supermarket that has more than one of the trolleys with a larger seat - that includes the huge out of town stores.

I have never seen one of the large seat trolleys at our local asda.

I can still fit 5 year old DS into a normal trolley. I would imagine a 2 year old would have to be very big not to fit in one

My 2.2yr old was 15.3kg and really tall. I only remember this because I weighed him for car seat reasons when his sister came along. The seats are for 'up to 15kg' but we did use it a bit beyond this.

Bit if a disclaimer - I am trying to fit him next to his sister. If he had a two-seater and one cheek on each, he might fit, but I have never tried.

it was getting ds into the trolley seat that was a problem for us, because of his low tone, it was like squashing a ragdoll (with piedro boots on) in, it was then nearly impossible to get him out - we had a similar problem in high chairs.

I have a 1yo & a 3yo who's rapidly out-growing the double trolley but highly likely to have an hysterical meltdown flinging things off shelves & laughing manically or bolt, potentially out into the car park, at any given moment with no warning. The trollies with bench seats at the front wouldn't work for my DC at this age & I'd be worried about being judged because DS1 has no obvious physical disabilities.

We do most of our shopping via click & collect now so only go into the shop for things we've forgotten. Even so, DS1 has to either hold a hand, which involves DH being there because I struggle to push the trolley & therefore takes up a large chunk of our weekend family time, or I have to struggle through the shopping alone & contain DS1 somehow.

If people are that concerned about germs they can either put things in bags or wash it when they get home. I do, it's not too taxing!