To believe that kids sat inside supermarket trolleys is disgusting

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Just that really.
Never allowed my DC to do it.

I think it is gross that some guardians allow children to sit amongst the groceries in the supermarket trolley.
Makes me shudder that they could have dog shit or other unmentionables on their outside footwear. This would contaminate their shopping and the next unsuspecting persons. I also think it's dangerous having a kid hanging off the edge of a trolley. Pisses me off to see this. Am I alone?

What the what now

People wouldn't allow kids in shoes to come in from outdoors and stand on their sofa (or even their carpet sometimes!). But they are fine with them standing in a trolley that people put food in? Some odd standards on mumsnet.

You are not alone OP.

Maybe you are unreasonable. Maybe you're not.
My kids will be in the trolley when I want them to be, regardless though so it doesn't matter really

I just wonder what's "unmentionable" when shit seems to be perfectly mentionable

if you let your kid sit in the trolley and they get a fractured skull I betnyou’d Blame the supermarket. No kid is an angel and if told not to do something will not always comply as they are children. In one incident I witnessed the mother tried to blame asda and not her parenting. The trolley is not safe, in the event of a fire you abandon the trolley and get your backside outside (many flammable items). Stopping to haul a child out is wasting time and may be in the way of other people.

Stopping to haul a child out is wasting time and may be in the way of other people

So you never sit a child in the allocated seat either by that logic?

I hate seeing children in trolleys from a safety POV but that point is just rediculous

I don't think it's unhygienic (trolleys are hardly the cleanest things in the world!) but I do think it's dangerous. Kids don't always stay sitting down and I've seen kids reach out of trolleys to get stuff off the shelves and tip the trolley over. The sound of a child's head smacking a concrete supermarket floor is a really horrible one.

If they're too old to use the trolley seats, then either get them to walk nicely next to you, or do your shopping online. Some shops ban children from sitting inside trolleys (and for good reason).

Do you clean everything you buy in the supermarket? I'm sure you do because obviously you know mucky trolleys are the least of your concern when you consider how many people have already handled your food before it gets to you..

What a daft thing to get yourself wound up about OP. I’ve put my kid in the trolley & in Waitrose, shock horror. I couldn’t give two fucks if you feel “disgusted” by that!

Wow! If it keeps them from legging it all over the place I'm going to carry on doing it! Never crossed my mind that people would think badly of it

I’m with OP 100%. It’s utterly vile.
Either they are small enough to sit in the seat (where they can’t get their dirt and snot where my food goes). Or they are big enough to behave inside a shop. And by behave I mean walk quietly and sensibly next to a parent and not running, scooting, touching or screeching.

Personally I think the rampant overuse of the word 'disgusting' is more shudder worthy...

There is danger around every corner where my children are involved. They could injure hem selves in a padded room. Falling out of a shopping trolley is the least of my worries. Still safer than them running around the supermarket potentially running into someone else’s trolley or getting lost.

Well my son won’t do either of those things gherkin. I must be a terrible parent.

Contamination far more likely from unwrapped veg etc. surely?

I don't do it because there would be less space for my shopping and I LOVE shopping

I've got twins and there aren't always twin trolleys to put them in the seats. So one sits inside the trolley.
What else would you suggest I do? Just go home?

I think you'd probably also complain if said children were out of the trolleys and contaminating your personal space with their muckiness!

Sometimes putting a child in a trolley is best for all concerned and if you're managing their behaviour and being sensible then there is nothing for you, or anyone else, to worry about.

I have three under 5. Youngest two in the seats and eldest in the trolley is best for everyone. Needs must.

Op I have some health and safety concerns about this.... I'm worried that your life is so miserable, so unfulfilled, so utterly and completely joyless, that you have found the time, amongst all of life's rich colour and tapestry, to be 'disgusted' by the parents of small children just getting by and having fun doing their shopping.
Congratulations on being one of the most joyless old miseries I have ever encountered!

I get the safety side of it. Can't say I let the hygiene bother me, considering I've walked past a few supermarkets late at night and seen rats and foxes climbing around the trolleys.

What gets me is people who put their nappy-clad child on the bit of the conveyor belt where the assistant puts the food after scanning. Now that IS disgusting!

OP, you should see the rats running over the trolleys at night

I don't let my kids hang from the trolley or jump out, if they stand I stop the trolley and wait for them to sit again, but there are so few or sometimes no twin trolleys at most supermarkets that if you have twins, or just two kids, then at certain ages there aren't many other options. My kids' shoes are pretty clean, we use wellies for mud. Sorry but I think yabu.