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 have to constantly praise ds when he is out, he has massive anxiety issues and needs that constant reassurance of how well he is doing in what could be a very stressful situation for him!

Other people ‘misbehaving’ adds to the stress for him so increases my need to keep him calm and reassure him he is doing well.

I will be honest that I am a mother of 2 DC and other people’s kids in supermarkets are absolutely fucking annoying. I hate our local ALDI for some reason it seems worse in there than anywhere else - it’s not very big for starters and I look around and think ‘do these parents take their kids here on a family day out?!?’
I don’t get it. The other day there was a family of 7 and the younger ones were causing absolute mayhem, parents just ignoring them. One parent/older siblings could easily have distracted them or shock horror - waited outside/the park
Aldi has a shelf in it where you go to pack up your bags properly and every time I am in there it is just full of kids climbing all over it and jumping off, no space to actually use it for yourself

I think that people who don’t like kids in supermarkets generally just expect them to behave themselves, it is not a family day out environment it is a bloody shop

@PookieDo I think a lot of "these parents" think giving their kids the " experience" trumps everyone else's convenience. I was in Tesco yesterday, at the tills with a queue a mile long. A woman at the front of the queue allowed her wee boy (about 3ish I reckon) to pay for her shopping by putting her card in the machine and her helping him put the PIN numbers in. Then she let him pay separately for a comic and ice lolly with his pocket money, counting it out every fucking penny it was all in fucking silver and coppers. All while smiling beatifically at those in the queue behind her, to check they were watching. She then quoth "They've got to learn, haven't they?" Aye, Bunty on a fucking Monday morning not two o'clock on a fucking roasting Saturday afternoon. But you crack on hen.......🙄

Yeah if it’s been very quiet on the self pay in the past I have let my kids have a go at the machines - I’m not devoid of all fun

But it’s not fun for the kids clearly either when they end up running around screaming, crying or being generally badly behaved - we have all been there, use your judgement. Kid having a bad day? Grab what you need (milk/bread) and finish the shop another day. Husband with you? One of you watch kids the other shops. Online shopping?

There are so many options other than diligently concentrating on doing a £150 big food shop with your very bored 3 raucous children dominating all the aisles on scooters, bikes, running around, trashing the packing area etc

No one really wants to be in a supermarket for any longer than necessary let alone a child

It's not just supermarkets either. I was in Laura Ashley recently and a boy of about 9 was lying across a beautiful pale velvet couch with his trainers on the seats, drinking fizzy juice while his dad browsed. I was gobsmacked. Why would you let your kid do that??

A 3 year old paying with their own money in a supermarket wouldn’t bother me much. If it is busy I might find it annoying but it is no different from someone else who is very slow at the till. I wouldn’t have the right to be annoyed at them being very slow and struggling to pack so I wouldn’t have the right to be annoyed at the child or their mother. They are a customer too. And no, I wouldn’t have been the mum doing that because there is no way I would prolong any supermarket visit on a Saturday afternoon by letting my child pay slowly.

But a frail or partially sighted person can't help being bit slow.
A three years old can be told "not now it's too busy" and run a packet if Haribo through the self service after .

There's a time.And a place for indulging this stuff. A busy queue is not one if them

My ex used to indulge his 5yo with money in shops on tills EVERY TIME. I used to walk away I just couldn’t stand it

@PookieDo as @Gileswithachainsaw says, there's a time and a place for doing that 😀 nobody in their right mind would do it on a Saturday in a busy supermarket, or they'd do it the way they suggest.

I would always give my daughter the shopping list to amuse her, she would read out the items on the list to practice reading or I would read it out and she would find what we needed (calmly) it’s not hard to amuse a child and keep them under control if you want to be a decent parent.

I was hit on the back of the head by a bloody ball two brats were playing with in Tesco, no apology or acknowledgement from the mother and this was after she’d been letting them run riot round the store

Totally agree, I have to take mine, or rather I should say he has to take me, he is a young carer and is there If I need him. I'd be horrified if he ran around screaming, he is 5 and even when he was 2 he was always at my side, usually helping. Normally I give him control of the scan as you shop so he didn't get bored.
I panicked a week ago cos he suddenly ran up an Isle without warning, I went to shout for him to stop only to realise he had seen a toddler about to fall out of a trolley and caught him. (Not the mother's fault entirely she had hold of the other end of the trolley and had only briefly turned her attention away to get something from up high and child had unclipped himself and started to. Climb out) but even so just the thought of him running had me thinking "Don't do it, not in a supermarket" until I realised why.

Your son sounds amazing Bekstar
You must be very proud of him

What a wee trooper @Bekstar 😃

Thanks he is. He always wants to help and would do anything for anyone expecially when it comes to babies and toddlers.

Im totally aggreing with this thread i bloody hate kids running around the supermarkets screaming blue bloody murder its just shit parenting! but as for the princes and princesses properlavs i call my children babe all 4 of them and everytime im out i get praised on how bloomin well behaved my lot are so thats just crap! But im takjmg it you meant all the spoilt little shits!

Here’s a nice shiny star for all the parents out there whose kids apparently always do as they are told 100% of the time

Here’s a nice shiny star for all the parents out there whose kids apparently always do as they are told 100% of the time
Except nobody says their kids are perfect all the time.

Note to the world - if you have an opinion on anything someone will come in and drop a variation on the snide 'oh I'm glad you're perfect' line. I always wonder if they are the people who do whatever is being complained about.

@Bekstar What a little star!

Except nobody says their kids are perfect all the time.

Er yes, they do frequently on MN. Because it's all about hard work and parenting. OK then. Interestingly I suspect that these are the same people who refuse to admit their DC ever do anything wrong at school because they have nailed it and they are never naughty

Most people are normal, they try their best and admit that sometimes their DC are difficult and sometimes they don't succeed in all situations.

There are also some people who are lazy parents who don't discipline, but I suspect in reality there is actually more cross over with the top group than they want to admit

Im totally aggreing with this thread i bloody hate kids running around the supermarkets screaming blue bloody murder its just shit parenting! but as for the princes and princesses properlavs i call my children babe all 4 of them and everytime im out i get praised on how bloomin well behaved my lot are so thats just crap! But im takjmg it you meant all the spoilt little shits!

Say what...?

I have never met any well behaved kids given the moniker 'babe'

Im totally aggreing with this thread i bloody hate kids running around the supermarkets screaming blue bloody murder its just shit parenting! but as for the princes and princesses properlavs i call my children babe all 4 of them and everytime im out i get praised on how bloomin well behaved my lot are so thats just crap! But im takjmg it you meant all the spoilt little shits!

Gin o'clock already?

I work in a diy/builders merchants. We dread summer holidays due to the increase in children running round, not being looked after properly by parents and left to run wild. Two instances...unattended child playing stack em with 8 tins of paint...cue it falling and some poor member of staff having to clean up 20 litres of spilt paint. Second instance...child trips and falls into metal angle beads (razor sharp) and slices several inches along their forearm. Their parents are now sueing...

It’s not the children we have issues with, well behaved ones we love. But bad parenting is the bane of our lives!

Well my mine are bloody well behaved when it matters and counts and absolute li'l sods indoors and mine are all called babe by me or hubby! And i home tutor all of mine due to the fact that there are some parents out there who think its acceptable to generally let there kids do or say whatever they want and dont correct them when in the wrong!!