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Kids in the hair dressers today

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adoggymum · 07/12/2018 12:04

I went for my haircut this morning, I always look forward to it as it's a nice salon- not bad prices and they make me feel really pampered (think head massage when washing it, fancy blow dry, glass of wine/fizz whilst you're having it done)

I paid £40 for a wash, cut and blow dry.

Upon arrival there was a family of 4- 2 young kids, one 3 ish and one probably 5 or 6, swinging around on the chairs and running around their (I assume grandmother) whilst she was having her hair coloured. The parents just sat back on the sofas watching- the dad was even on the tablet!

Neither of them made any effort to calm the children down, tell them off for swinging on the chairs/running around/screaming etc. And the grandmother even asked them to maybe take them out for a walk into the town for a while as she was having her colour set and the mother just took one look at the weather and said 'nah it's not nice out there is it?'.

It was myself, the grandmother and another customer in there- even the hair stylists were looking annoyed but obviously didn't want to say anything. For the entire hour I was there the kids were allowed to roam, the parents sat doing absolutely no parenting or attempts at distraction and none of them were even having their hair cut!

A customer came in towards the end of my appointment and didn't have anywhere to sit as the parents had all the kids stuff over the sofas and both were sitting on one each separately.

AIBU to have wanted the parents and children to leave? They weren't paying customers, kids were running riot, parents not parenting and they were ruining my special treat to myself, I couldn't relax with the kids running about and spinning on the chair next to me :(

What do you guys think? Should I have said something do you think?

Note- I'm not some grumpy old lady either, I'm a 20 year old student.

OP posts:
OrangeSamphire · 08/12/2018 09:12

You can home educate at any time. There is no set timetable. You can do what you like at 11am on a Friday. I usually take my daughter climbing at that time.

Regardless, it sounds like they were all behaving like twats with no regard for anyone else around them. Even with the bad weather, the parents could have taken them to a cafe or a soft play rather than have them race around in a salon.

OrangeSamphire · 08/12/2018 09:42

so many kids must suffer and have bad educations because of home schooling

And so many kids suffer and have bad educations because of school too.

But that’s another thread.

Sorry you had a crap time at the salon OP. Sadly there are selfish people everywhere 😒

Thesearmsofmine · 08/12/2018 10:13

How has this turned into a home ed discussion?! I home ed my own children but didn’t mention it when I posted on here because it has no relevance, we don’t know that these children are home educated or that maybe they have gone to see grandma for the weekend.

Fontofnoknowledge · 08/12/2018 10:52

*Thesearmsofmine
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It turned into a discussion about Home Ed because a member of the professionally offended (who haunt this board) was 'very angry' about all this talk about the school day. !

This weird attitude to people posting the bleeding obvious - looking for a reason to find fault with the poster for a situation that is about as black and white as it comes.. is really spoiling the advice boards.

Are people who comment on posts really so naive as to think that the average human female who posts on here couldn't tell the difference between a couple of feckless twats , bored of parenting and oblivious or uninterested in the chaos and disturbance their kids were causing OR Otherwise competent parents who Home educate, who had for some inexplicable reason decided that hanging out in a hairdressers ignoring the kids was a structured part of their day. ?

It's extremely irritating point scoring. In the same way that ANY comment on child behaviour will ALWAYS have someone stick their brass neck out and tell you that ' little Johnny probably has SN and his behaviour is part of his condition. ' Sorry, - I don't care ! If I am posting about his behaviour then that's what I am talking about. The two are not mutually exclusive ! As the mother of a child with such severe autism that he attends a specialist school - I can assure you that he can be just as much of a little shit as any of the rest of them and MY behaviour and parenting should be just as vigilant and consistent with expectations as in any other parenting situation.

Bloody world is always looking for an excuse for poor behaviour.. 'anxiety', 'issues' 'needs' 'boundaries' ??? How about 'engage with your child, take your eyes off your phone - and parent ! You might find those problems miraculously melt away ...

adoggymum · 08/12/2018 11:15

@Fontofnoknowledge you are so right! X

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GabsAlot · 08/12/2018 11:48

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