to be annoyed by people who let their kids run round supermarkets 'playing'

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Actually screaming and running into people.
I had an interesting 'conversation' with a woman when i muttered for someone to stop them screaming and running around. This woman, who didn't actually have anything to do with the kids, who were roughly 4 and 2, told me they were only playing.

I told her it was a very busy supermarket and they shouldn't be playing here
She then muttered about some people having to take their children shopping. I told her I had had to take all of mine (6 under 8) and no they were't ever allowed to run round screaming whilst I ignored them.
Wtf is wrong with people?

I don’t care what is going on in someone’s life. Simple decency says don’t let your children run in a supermarket

If a child endangered me or another shopper I would speak directly to the child in that moment about how their behaviour is dangerous. I've never ever seen that happen though

Why do people on here insist on being know-it-alls about something they've never experienced it or even seen happen?

@Sirzy

I don't care what is going on in someone's life.

Alright, Melania Trump.
End of argument for me there.

I do.

I don’t care what is going on in someone’s life. Simple decency says don’t let your children run in a supermarket

Simple decency doesn't really help when you have children with additional needs who can be perfectly behaved right up until they time they leg it out of nowhere.
But you don't care about anyone elses life, so I guess those kids and their parents can just fuck off with themselves.

@Isawthelight

By referring to what I have/haven't seen, I claimed to only "know it all" about what I have/haven't seen 🙄

Simple decency doesn't really help when you have children with additional needs who can be perfectly behaved right up until they time they leg it out of nowhere

I would assume the parent wouldn't be far behind that child though, keeping an eye out and catching up to them, not allowing to run freely round the supermarket with no supervision.

I don’t care what is going on in someone’s life. Simple decency says don’t let your children run in a supermarket

If you scolded a child that was dicking around in the supermarket and their mum explained that her husband had just died so she wasn't her usual on the ball self - you wouldn't feel an ounce of empathy for her sirzy?

If someone allows their child’s behaviour to impact negatively upon others

In life peoples behaviour impacts negatively on others all the time. I'm sure you and your children impact on others from time to time. You don't get to never be negatively impacted, life doesn't work that way. Shit happens

That’s why I never let go of ds in a supermarket because I know he is a bolster, he certainly wouldn’t be able to get far enough to cause trouble!

It is up to parents to know their children and know how to stop them!

By referring to what I have/haven't seen, I claimed to only "know it all" about what I have/haven't seen

Yes that's right and you claimed to have the magic solution to know how to resolve all these unruly children with a few simple words.

The victim? Say there wasn't one, but the child was being noisy and a bit of a nuisance, you'd still have no empathy for someone that explained that their parenting skills were the least of their worries as they'd just lost their husband?

Really?

I've never seen an accident involving a child in a supermarket

Me neither drizzle. Or an airport for that matter.

There are plenty of things in life I haven’t seen, doesn’t mean they aren’t real though!

I've been going to the supermarket every day for the past 30 years and I've never seen a child knock an elderly person over.

@lola212121 - I am sorry, but you do NOT get to lecture me or anyone else on empathy, when you have expressed NONE for the elderly people injured by unruly children in shops.

And what about the victim. Maybe their husband just died.

Seriously are we meant to believe that every parent that allows their kid to behave dangerously selfishly and inappropriately is dying?

God there would he funeral directors popping up on every street corner of that was the case...

What about the risk of death to the poor elderly bugger who now has to have surgery ?

Everyone's got their shit going on. Bones don't not break cos of what someone else is going through

”I've been going to the supermarket every day for the past 30 years and I've never seen a child knock an elderly person over.”

That doesn’t mean it never happens, @GreatDuckCookery - as @auditqueen’s dad and @bychoiceornot know to their cost. It only took it happening once for @bychoiceornot’s grandmother to end up with injuries that lead to her death.

I would like to think I'd cut people with children that are also tired and grumpy a bit of slack

And some of us without children, or parents who are actually in control of their children (rather than the other way around) are tired and grumpy (because maybe we've had to visit our elderly father in hospital after an accident). Why are our needs less important than a few self obsessed, entitled, selfish parents?

My father is well on the mend today, so thank you for your good wishes. He's had a massive fruit cake delivered to him as an apology/get well soon present from the manager and staff at the supermarket, so he's busy chatting up nurses and sharing his cake today! Will hopefully be home, at least my home, on Monday and he wants to go and do some shopping next weekend!

GreatDuckCookery The victim? Say there wasn't one, but the child was being noisy and a bit of a nuisance

Spectacularly missing the point - the issue is children being allowed to use/view the supermarket as an extension of a playground, race track or skate park and pathetic, selfish parents who willingly allow their children to do so with no consideration of how their behaviour impacts on others.