To have a word? (Parent and child parking).

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I've just pulled into a parent and child space (with my baby who is sleeping so waiting for him to wake up before i go into the supermarket).

A woman pulled into the space next to me- no kids in the car- and went in to the shop. She's not back yet.

AIBU to accost her when she comes back and tell her that it's not fair?

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I don't understand how harrassing people some of whom will be vulnerable and have difficult enough lives, shows that someone has a good moral compass.

You clearly don't need it either! You're being like those parents who occupy these spaces but someone stays in the car with the children. I can quite understand people 'abusing' them, they're abused all the time by the great entitled.

People with disabilities that don’t qualify for a blue badge are often encouraged to use P&C spaces because there is no legal right for a parent with a child for a space. In fact if you even told the supermarket manager they’d tell you the same thing. It’s why you’ll often see people with crutches / IBS etc parking there.

You haven’t seen the size of my 10 month old. She’s a tank - I need the door wide to wrestle her out of the car seat and not bang her head on the way out

I always say something when I see people in child spaces with no child.
Oh they always have some excuse 'oh I'm only popping in for one thing really quickly' or 'I'm disabled and can't walk far' (there are plenty of blue badge spaces) or 'oh I didn't realise' personal favourite 'my car is to big (or expensive) to park in a normal space' Ffs.

I'm usually really polite and say 'I notice you don't have a little one with you, did you see this is parent and child parking' most people go into the shop anyway but I live in hope they won't park there next time.

Why do people comment on someone being disabled- that doesn’t give them the right to park in mother and baby? If all the mother and baby spaces are taken you can’t park in disabled

Why do people comment on someone being disabled- that doesn’t give them the right to park in mother and baby?

You would begrudge a disabled person the right to park in a space which means they can actually get out of their car? What a kind person you must be.

@Theluckynumberthree - they’re not “mother and baby spaces”, they’re parent and child. #everydaysexism

If all the mother and baby spaces are taken you can’t park in disabled

PARENT and child spaces are totally different to blue badge spaces.

Reasonable adjustment means someone who is disabled can park anywhere as long as it is safe and legal

Disabled spaces are for blue badge holders only. Alot of disabled people don’t have access to blue badges and so are permitted to use parent and child spaces. In fact all supermarkets in the UK actually give disabled people without blue badges preferences for these spaces so even a complaint would go unheard of. There is no legal requirement in the UK to give parents parking spaces but there is a legal requirement to make spaces more disabled friendly.

Winds me up like crazy, I’m 38 weeks pregnant and have a 2yr old. There was no child and parent spaces and I ended up at the opposite side of the car park in the rain etc etc... frustrating, but you don’t know circumstances and prior to kids we’ve all done it?! Esp when’s busy and the weathers shitty or we’re “only popping in for milk”.
Supermarkets are mental, people are in that crazed mode where the thought of the shops closing for 24 hours makes everyone pretty scary... and seriously lacking Xmas spirit and rational thinking. Not worth the arguement in my opinion x

Oh they always have some excuse....or 'I'm disabled and can't walk far' (there are plenty of blue badge spaces)

As has been explained many times, many disabled people cannot get a blue badge, and so wouldn't be able to park in a bb space.

You say you politely point out to them.....but you are doing it to call them out on their perceived wrongdoing. That is not polite, passive aggressive....but not polite.

Oh and disabled spaces are a necessity, without them many disabled people would not be able to access town centres, shops and attractions....parent and child spaces are a perk for the short time that life is made a bit inconvenient by having a child.

"If all the mother and baby spaces are taken you can’t park in disabled"

That's because having a baby isn't a disability ( just incase you hadn't realised).

Why do people comment on someone being disabled- that doesn’t give them the right to park in mother and baby?

Oh yes it fucking well does!

It’s done at our local supermarket all the time. I stopped giving a flying monkeys in the end. It’s not enforceable anyway like disabled bays.

Its just a sales gimmick if you didn't have a car you'd have to navigate public transport and push the pram into the supermarche just be glad your a special case

Great, if your moral compass is in good order, my comments obviously aren't aimed at you as you wouldn't park in the space unless you needed it.

Jesus it really kicked off on here, what have you started OP 😂😂

I couldn't give a toot whether someone thinks we need it or not. I just find it odd that someone's moral compass tells them to confront/point out/have a word with a stranger about their 'right' to park somewhere....and doing this gives them the warm fuzzy glow if self righteousness. I genuinely cannot get my head round it.

Why do people comment on someone being disabled- that doesn’t give them the right to park in mother and baby? If all the mother and baby spaces are taken you can’t park in disabled

Anyone can park in a P and C space. But especially a person with a disability should there be no spaces for them elsewhere.

You don't need a P and C just because you have a baby.

How entitled are some people? Oh I’ll just park in the parent and toddler space and wait for five/ten/thirty minutes for my child to wake up ... meanwhile, you could’ve been in, out, and given up the space to another parent.

When you are whiter than white/holier than thou/perfect in every way, then you can stick your beak into other people’s business.

Definitely only for convenience not an entitlement if you are a parent with a child. I sometimes wonder how these spaces are policed. Is that actually a parent with the child? When a child is sitting in the front seat does that still constitute a need for a special parking space. I see kids in my area out playing football with friends (no adults present) yet their parents use one if the P & C spaces as if they can get the child to unclick a seat belt and step out of a car then walk to the store. The problem is that all the other parking spaces are far too small for today' s cars. There would be no need for specially designated ones if the car parks were designed properly. Until, or if that ever happens use whatever space is available (disabled excepted) after all folk managed before all the special treatment.

I parked in a parent and child space earlier as I am pregnant with SPD and it was closer to the door. It's not enforceable and I would have dared anyone to say anything to me.