Kids on scooters during school run 😒

[Heyjude16]

It drives me insane. Small path to school and they come zooming so fast up behind you that if you don't move you get smacked at the back of your legs, and then none of them say please or thank you or excuse me. Drives me insane! 😒

Zad, it takes a second to move aside so they can pass, also what do you expect them to do when they reach a road?

Never mind scooters, how did you get a coloured emoji in your thread title?!

Lots of scooters on our school run, never been a problem. I don't see any children miles ahead of their parents, I've never been hit by a child on a scooter, and they're always polite. Maybe we just live in a naicer area than the OP

Cars, on the other hand... Cars have hit 3 children. Every day there is dangerous and illegal parking. An adult cyclist (nothing to do with the school) hospitalised one child.

I and most other parents (except the car drivers) would rather see cars banned!

Yanbu! Ive seen children run the scooters into the road and car have to brake suddenly to avoid them. They vvvv dangerous. Keep for parks and gardens only never normal paths. Dsis manages the school walk without them.

Round here the fashion seems to be that the child stands on the scooter and the parent pulls it along, meaning the child doesn't have to actually move. I saw a parent dragging two scooters along yesterday while the children stood on them not moving a muscle. Surely this is the height of laziness? Don't know if this is worse or better than the kids scooting about bashing into people but at least they're getting some exercise by doing that!

YANBU. My DD got knocked actually into the road when she was 4. Some child of about 9 or 10 came hurtling down the hill out of control and just went round the corner where we were walking.

His Mum was miles away and when she came up to see what had happened she just went and stared!

I was fuming.

YANBU.

Round here they are lethal. Walking to work one day, I had to step into the gutter as a parent, pushing a double pram, with another child on one side on a scooter, plus a dog on the other side, took up all the pavement. As I came towards him, he rather grumpily said to me "Oh, I suppose you want to get by?" Twat.

I live very very close to a school and quite often have to leave home in the car around 8.45, just at the time people are taking their kids to school. Every time I reverse off the drive I check and double check for small children on their scooters. Parents let children scoot so far ahead of them and don't control them at all, it is an accident waiting to happen. (and of course it would all be the driver's fault, and nothing to do with the parent).

YABU.

This isn't really about kids on scooters, it's about kids with no manners.

I hate them anywhere really except the park. I suspect DD would quite like one. Luckily we live on a very steep hill with a main road at the bottom so that's my excuse at the moment!

This isn't really about kids on scooters, it's about kids with no manners.

THIS.

nothing wrong on scooters.
lots wrong with kids on scooters who don't get off them when they should, or who scoot too fast weaving in and out. i yelled at one child once as she ran over my big toe and destroyed a pedicure i had just had (first world problem). bloody annoying though, first one i had had in about a year.

We walk but lots of kids scoot, we've never been hit or seen someone hit, children are also very polite and wait behind you if they can't pass and always say thank you if you let them by, so going on my own experience it's not been a problem.

As for them passing you, then having to wait and pass you again etc, well loads of inconvenient things happen in a day, I couldn't get het up about something like this really. They're only children.

The worst is when you get a group of parents, there a multiple children who hurtle down the road, swerving all over the place and the parents are too busy chatting to notice. I walk to uni at school time and it can be like a obstacle course

scooters might be ok (ish) if parents could bother to teach the children how to use them safely! Most days I end up carrying my toddler to avoid him being run over , it's ridiculous. Some parents dare to look furious when I refuse to get out of the way to let their precious darling go through. I refuse to climb a wall or go on the road in front of the car, which would be the only places to go.

I like seeing children on scooters, I like seeing children having fun...not that I'm suggesting for a moment that the rest of you are child-haters who want to suck the fun out of everything.

There will always be a few parents who are incapable of instilling some manners and basic safety into their children but that's true of everything.

I also think they are a hazard, and I used to take mine away if I saw they couldn't ride considerately.

I think they are very alarming for elderly people or those (increasingly me) who aren't as quick off the mark or with poor balance

Problem is that they are easy for tiny children with no sense to ride, and a boon to parents who find it hard to get children to walk.

They are banned from our school playground as the kids using them (mostly little ones from preschool next door) were a bloody menace! The parents would stand around chatting seemingly oblivious to their offspring crashing into legs, fences, other children, each other. After a few nasty bruises and a cracked head, the head teacher stopped ant inside the gates.

AlistairSim

One of my boys loves throwing stones. Should I stop sucking the fun out of his life and let him destroy cars, windows and shop fronts? He would have so much fun!

I always taught my children to say excuse me please and thank you too, and would tell them to go back and say it if they hadn't. It's not rocket science

One of my boys loves throwing stones. Should I stop sucking the fun out of his life and let him destroy cars, windows and shop fronts? He would have so much fun!

Yes, because that is exactly what Alaistairskm was saying wasn't it? If you can't see the difference between throwing stones and scooting, there is no hope.

Shark, I don't think riding a perfectly legal scooter and throwing stones to damage property are entirely the same thing, do you?

throwing stones to damage property and riding a scooter into my toddler is indeed very different. I don't really care about broken glass, but I very much object to a broken toddler!

No, it's not fun when kids ride their scooter dangerously without any regards for the people around them. I would be fine in a collision with a mini scooter, maybe a bruise or 2, but other people aren't.

I agree with those saying its a manners problem, not a scooter problem.

I walk to school with DC 6 and 3 on scooters. I have literally no other way of doing it except to drive, which I really don't want to do. DS who is 3 refuses to go in a pushchair any more and does a sit down protest every 10 metres if made to walk and he is 20 kilos and the size of a 5 year old, so I cannot carry him. He scoots, but has been taught to stop if people are coming the other way, stop at roads and say excuse me and thank you if he goes past people. only once did he go into the back of someone - was made to apologise (obviously I did too) and had the scooter taken off him for a week. He learned fast.

YANBU about the manners bit of it at all.

At DDs school they are banned from riding in school grounds and have to get off before the school gate where it is congested, which I think is sensible.

I think you find them annoying, that's all.

Over all these years I have never seen these terrible collision. Rude kids do exist of course, as do rude parents. They won't make room scooter or not.

My neighbour as a kid had the same sort of reaction to kids with tennis balls on the school run, oh the accidents she envisaged! None ever happened, luckily. She hated tennis balls.