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

[ProperLavs]

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?

We do seem to have the area that attracts ridiculously obnoxious scootering around here - I remember a little charmer belting up behind me yelling "gerroutoftheway" with a simpering parent about 500 yards behind when I had a double buggy over to the edge of the pavement anyway when my kids were little.

Hence I'm a strict bugger where my own kids are concerned now they're scooter age - they're not allowed to scooter up close behind people, they have to stop and wait for me at agreed points and if I ever catch them behaving inconsiderately they lose the damned things for a while. If they have them with us when we go to the supermarket - they get folded up and go in the trolley and they walk around holding the trolley with me - they can help pick stuff out and talk about what we want and help me with the prices of things - but they don't do poking stuff or running around... or I put the shopping back and we leave.

They're no angels - DD2 has SEN with things like fidgeting and spatial awareness, and DD1 is one of life's harder work personalities - but I certainly don't stand by and simper indulgently like lots of parents locally do (we're a bit of a Tesco Value Yummy Mummy belt - for those who can't afford real yummy mummyville)

I quite often find myself asking 7 year olds to use play equipment properly. Usually I get the smart arse answer from them of 'well, I haven't hurt myself'. They are unable to comprehend that just because they haven't been hurt doing what they're doing so far that it could happen. Seems that some people on this thread haven't progressed in logical thought since they were 7.

Someone with toddlers and older children is hardly a 'new' mum. As for the poster who insists it is so hard to stop her children misbehaving and running riot in the supermarket they are admitting that their children are the ones in control rather than the adult parent who should be.

@LyingWitchInTheWardrobe

Interestingly enough we had that scenario the other evening with a dc swinging on poles and standing on seats and her Dm saying not to it but the dc was carrying on.

I was with my dm and we were concerned that the dc could fall if train jolted and injure themselves or even fall onto us

Oh dear ! This is still going on .zzzz . I think the ones who think supermarkets are a hazard because of brats and their lazy parents could use online shopping if it's such an issue but oh no the entitled people will say ... but why should we? hahaha. Any entrepreneurs here who want to design an adult only supermarket ?

Your ignorance and attempts to justify yourself are embarrassing lola.

lola no they're not a troll. Can't you see that your opinion is a minority opinion?

A lot of these people I can picture as Danny devito in Matilda saying : Listen , you little wiseacre :I'm smart , you're dumb , I'm big you're little , I'm right you're wrong and there's nothing you can do do about it !" Comedians

you're still in the minority.

@ProperLavs great observation

well yes, it's something that you seem to have missed though.

But riding a scooter or bike or tearing about indoors is wrong. People have expressed how members of their families have been hurt because of parents like you who think it's not necessary to teach their kids how to behave. Can you not understand that? Or does your precious bundle's right to do as they please trump other people's right not to be injured as they do their shopping?

@ProperLavs now you can top that ego fuel up because I told you you observed greatly . Well done !

I don't care lola; nothing you have said on this thread has made me think you have anything of value to add to this subject.

”Oh dear ! This is still going on. zzzz .”

And yet here you are, @lola212121 - if the thread is boring you so much, why are you still posting?

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius I knew that was coming I'm laughing now

Oh dear ! This is still going on .zzzz . I think the ones who think supermarkets are a hazard because of brats and their lazy parents could use online shopping if it's such an issue but oh no the entitled people will say ... but why should we?

Why are you scared to control your children?

Any entrepreneurs here who want to design an adult only supermarket?

I expect adults like you are worse behaved than the children tbh

And I expect many of these people disagreeing probably have no idea what trouble their kids could have got Into had other people like us not been there to stop it. Maybe Lola is the idiot I met a couple of years back who wasn't watching what her toddler was doing and missed the fact their kid was attempting a vertical climbing walk in a stupid dress that reached the floor which she stepped in every time she tried to move her legs and got herself stuck...

Supermarkets arent parks. Those are the big green things with slides in.

assumption again ... common thing with people with lack of empathy

What is your obsession with the word 'empathy'? That's all you keep saying throughout the thread. So I will stick with my 'assumption' that you are indeed one of these lacking, ineffectual parents who is ruled by their children...very sad.