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House viewings and jumping on beds?

46 replies

PoppyPopcorn · 22/08/2017 09:37

Watching "Wanted Down Under" with a very normal family who are considering a move to Aus. They are viewing various properties and in each one their children (who are about 3 and 5) launch themselves onto the beds.

Just WHY? I would never let my kids jump all over other people's furniture.

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PoppyPopcorn · 22/08/2017 09:37

Actually the kids are older than that. 5ish and 7ish.

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KingJoffreysRestingCuntface · 22/08/2017 09:39

No boundaries.

AmberStClare · 22/08/2017 09:40

The estate agents should be doing their job properly and stopping this. They get a big commission so should earn it even if it means chucking out viewers for disrespecting other peoples property.

AmberStClare · 22/08/2017 09:41

There would some small juinior arseholes served on plates if I had anything to do with it.

PatriciaHolm · 22/08/2017 09:41

It's TV. I wouldn't be surprised if the producers told them to.

Peachyking000 · 22/08/2017 10:12

I'd go nuts if my DC did that, however my DS needed to go to the toilet when we were viewing houses, and ended up in their bathroom for ages and did a poo. I was mortified, however they were lovely about it and we ended up buying the house

LadyMaryCrawley1922 · 22/08/2017 10:19

It's television, not real life. They'll be doing what they were told to do by the crew.

MimsyFluff · 22/08/2017 10:20

Peachyking000 was it because DS liked the bathroom so much?

anotherAnotherUsername · 22/08/2017 10:23

Another one who suspects that they were told to by team making the programme.

Peachyking000 · 22/08/2017 10:24

Mimsy lol Grin

itsonlysubterfuge · 22/08/2017 10:35

I remember as a child, our house was up for sale and a family came to visit. They stole a whole bunch of candy from my bedroom, which I had tucked away in my closet.

HerOtherHalf · 22/08/2017 10:37

I'm never sure if it's me that's weird or the rest of the planet. I was brought up to behave in a certain manner and jumping on furniture or running around out of control, especially in other people's homes or businesses, was a capital offense. That is my normal. Other people seem to have a different normal. For example, my wife and I were in IKEA a few weeks ago and there were numerous children jumping and climbing all over the display furniture without so much as a word from their parents.

Ledbury · 22/08/2017 10:39

I think as others have said it will have been a direction by the producers to add a bit of hype to proceedings.

OOAOML · 22/08/2017 10:42

When we sold our flat we had a family view who had a young child and she was very excited, and ran up to my son's bed shouting 'mine!' but didn't jump on it. I was more nervous she was going to open the wardrobe doors, as that's where all the random stuff had been hidden pre-viewing.

dollydaydream114 · 22/08/2017 10:54

Yes, completely out of order to let kids do that.

I accompanied a single friend on some viewings as she wanted a second opinion and couldn't believe how nosy she was. She opened people's wardrobes and bathroom cabinets right in front of them Shock

OnlyTeaForMe · 22/08/2017 10:58

HerOtherHalf - I'm with you and it's the rest of the planet that's weird...

Just this last week I've had two 'just why?' moments:

  1. Stayed in a hotel where two families quite happily let their 5 children (ages approx 4-10 years) have races around the dining room at breakfast time, shrieking at the tops of their voices Angry. It was a breakfast buffet where you collected your drink/food, so people were carrying full plates and cups of hot coffee while these kids ran screaming around.
  2. Man on plane in aisle seat behind me immediately took his shoes and socks off after take-off and proceeded to rest his (rather smelly) foot on the back of my armrest. Confused

Just why?

MrsOverTheRoad · 22/08/2017 11:03

In our last rented house, we were leaving to move abroad and one family came to view and their kids....about 6-8 years old, ran in ahead of their parents and straight up the stairs.

I was like lightening after them because their dim parents just stood there smiling dopily.

They'd gone into one of my DC's rooms and were reaching for ornaments etc.

I just said "Out!" firmly and then pointed them downstairs where I asked their parents not to allow them to run around.

That was a short viewing!

MrsOverTheRoad · 22/08/2017 11:05

Oh! And in the gallery I work in (posh private gallery full of expensive pottery and glass) some woman entered and allowed a TODDLER to run at full speed across the room!

There are things on pedestals costing upwards of two grand which I'd have happily charged her for had he broken them.

She didn't chase him...she followed him slowly as he ran in between the pedestals.

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 22/08/2017 11:07

The estate agents should be doing their job properly and stopping this

No, the PARENTS should be doing their job properly and stopping this.

Decaffstilltastesweird · 22/08/2017 11:11

I think as others have said it will have been a direction by the producers to add a bit of hype to proceedings.

This^^.

I think I saw a prank once where one of these presenter / prankster types posed a small a viewer and then told the estate agent he needed to use the bathroom quickly if that was ok. The estate agent said fine and the man went into the bathroom, stays for ages and then pokes his head out with shower cap on and loofah in hand. Poor estate agent looked so panicked. Mean prank. I assume they compensated them or had prearranged it with the owner or something.

Decaffstilltastesweird · 22/08/2017 11:11

Posed as a viewer^^

PolarBearGoingSomewhere · 22/08/2017 11:14

I live somewhere very "normal", probably a poor area compared to most on Mumsnet and I have never seen behaviour like some of the things I see described on here.

Not every child I see is impeccably behaved all the time of course but running about in shops and cafes is very rare.

Is it that people think they're too posh to be seen telling kids off, or is it MC entitlement?

Or maybe it's my kids who are the local little shits Shock

Decaffstilltastesweird · 22/08/2017 11:18

I feel the same polar and I live in a very MC town in the Home Counties. I've rarely seen MN-worthy bad behaviour from children, though that's why I've never really had anything to post about bad behaviour from children! Only the worst incidents will be comment worthy. Not much use starting a thread saying "aibu to think these children in Waitrose cafe were very well behaved and everything passed without incident?" Smile

HerOtherHalf · 22/08/2017 11:19

Just why?

It's one of life's mysteries that I suspect I will never get an answer to. Are the parents totally immune and don't even notice? Are they just so arrogant that they believe their childrens' right to enjoy themselves trumps everyone else's right to peace and quiet? Have they given up trying to control them because they lack basic parenting skills? Probably a mix of the three to varying degrees.

Decaffstilltastesweird · 22/08/2017 11:19

That was meant to be a Grin not a (patronising looking in the context) Smile!

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