Not to buy my 6yo heelies?

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Several of her friends have them. But I am convinced they are bad for growing bones and posture and gait etc. Am I, as dd tells me, the meanest mummy in the world?

They are terrible in supermarkets and crowded areas!! I have had children come flying into me, at 37 weeks pregnant atm I can't move out of the way very quickly!

They are great in supermarkets and large shops

Having been sent flying by a girl of 9 or 10 in heelies and on her phone at the shopping centre last week I don't agree. They are a bloody menace even to reasonably fit people.

Yanbu! I hate them. Hate them in the supermarket when it's busy enough and there's kids using it as some kind of skate park. Last time we were at the zoo last year, the place was full of kids and the damn things. Do kids not walk anymore?

Yanbu...vvvvvvvvv bad for their back. Think how they lean when they use them. Avoid them. Get the proper roller skates.

Should never be used in shops, supermarkets. Proper skates.

The DCs asked MIL for them for christmas just gone. MIL being the lunatic she is agreed readily. DS1 (11) has the same size feet as me and has lost interest so DS2 (6) and I go down the local dog-walking path to practise. He's brilliant on them, I look like Im about to put my hip out. I've banned them in the house and they're not allowed them if we're going out anywhere purely because of the danger to others.

One of the children at my school turned up in them for a few days running not long ago. She was whizzing about corridors and broke her elbow in a really odd place that meant having to pin it back together. They're not really suitable for anything except large, empty spaces.

Get her some roller skates or take her to a roller derby as PPs have suggested.
Heelies are so dangerous and always seem to be worn in the most inappropriate places. I work in a small branch of a supermarket chain and the amount of parents letting their snowflakes bowl through groups of elderly people and roll into displays/shelves because they can't stop is ridiculous. Our poor security guard spends his life telling people at the door they can't use them inside and then our first aiders (myself included) still end up going to an accident caused by them. I've been here three years and apart from bumps, bruises, trips etc too numerous to count I've called an ambulance for a child who broke her wrist and an elderly woman who was knocked flying when a kid couldn't stop. Menace.

bunny YABVU for letting your DD use them in supermarkets. Just because she hasn't hurt anyone yet doesn't mean it's ok.

They are not great in large bloody shops. I work in a large hardware retailer and we had a very near miss with a child in heelies and a piece of machinery the other week. She just shot out of an aisle in front of it at speed which meant I had to smack the anti crush pad to make it jump away from her and then jump on top of it to avoid being hit myself when it sprang back towards me. Very dangerous for me and woe betide any poor bastard that could have been standing beside or behind me. To say nothing of the danger to her. Being a counterbalancing machine it weighs in excess of a tonne. Had she been walking instead of on heelies and not shot out so fast I could have easily stopped to let her by with no fuss at all.

Most shops ban them but if some parents had a single fucking brain cell between them we wouldn't have to. Shops are not a playground and kids shouldn't be running and whizzing about on bloody wheels.

What sort of irresponsible idiots think it's a great idea to let their little darlings use heelys in supermarkets and shops? Have them whilst playing out fine - but who would think that letting kids whiz about nearly knocking people over in shops is a good idea?

A really fucking stupid one Crazycatgal

YABU. Well, actually, YANBU, your child, your choice, but my DDs (11, 9, 8) all have heelys and use them really frequently. They all wear them when we go to the supermarket and they know that they absolutely do not heely once they cross the threshold of the store. Ditto for any shop, business, medical establishment or organisation. It's simply non-negotiable. If we go somewhere that has good 'heely potential' and they aren't sure of its status e.g. an open air precinct, they will always check with me if they are 'allowed to heely in this bit'.

They don't do them any harm and now that the novelty has worn off they choose normal trainers when they know they'll be running around a lot, and they only use heelys when they want a bit of fun.

YANBU, as others have said they are bad for the body as they make you walk in a really unnatural way.

Anywhere that would actually be suitable for using them (not large shops FFS ) would also be suitable me for roller skates / inline skates which they would be better off with.

People get a grip! I have a gentle, well coordinated, tiny little daughter (she is a gymnast and dancer, just giving context not boasting!). She is not zooming around busy shops at speed, knocking over expectant mothers and pensioners. (I'm not an inconsiderate idiot who would let that happen). I can only describe it as she kind of glides around the very wide aisles of our half deserted Sainsburys. And please save the hackneyed, cliched snidey comments about 'snowflakes' for those who deserve them please! No 'snowflakes' here.

I think YABU. My 6 year old got some for Christmas and by Boxing Day she'd mastered them (thanks to YouTube). She's pretty good on them, and no accidents so far. She only wears them sometimes, we've got a really smooth path which goes around the local path which is perfect for them.

Local park not path!

*your not you're

On a ranking of being unreasonable:

1. Calling children names like snowflake
2. Allowing children to wear their heelies when going to the supermarket.

bunny who cares if your small, dancer child can glide around, thats exactly what all the other irritating children do too. It's. Still. Annoying. As. Fuck. Take a leaf out of lougles book who has exactly the right attitude.

harderandharder2breathe. There is no need for you to be so mean. It's not nice at all to call someone a 'twat' I hope you feel good about yourself for that. Also, it should be 'are a good idea' not 'is a good idea'. Perhaps you might focus on your grammar rather than bring nasty to people you don't know on forums.

MyPatronusIsAUnicorn resorting to the 'f' word. That's classy!

Just as a fun little experiment does someone want to go and find me one thread in AIBU that has more than 1 page and DOESN'T resort to "the f word" as you so daintily put it?

Bunnylove you may wish to check your spelling on the post to harder. Ho hum

My children are t allowed them. I hate the bloody things! Their friends come into my house and zoom around, stopping themselves by slamming their hands into my walls... gives me the rage. There are no shoes allowed in my house now.
I hate them whizzing around shop or supermarket aisles too. So dangerous.