To think you're a dick if you let your kid do this at softplay?

[FuckOffff]

Run riot in the under 3s / toddler section and don't say anything.

I'm sick of taking my kids to these places and having to mind my toddler as a bunch of 9 years olds run through the young children's section without a care for the toddling kids and babies they are nearly knocking over.

I get you don't always know where your children are but there are some parents who obviously know their children are in there and who don't say anything, I've even seen some where the parents are in the toddler section with their own young child whilst their older ones hurtle about.

Fuck off and use the section for older kids! And tell your kids they aren't to enter that section at all!

I have older DC that come with us sometimes and they are always instructed at the start that they'll be in trouble if I catch them going in the babies section. Does my head in.

Totally agree, it really annoys me too. Always overexcited, barrelling around, making it totally unsafe for babies/toddlers (and stopping their gentle exploration). I've never thought to tell a child off but kudos to those who have! I don't ever go to soft play during school holidays or at weekends now. It's a much more pleasant experience on a weekday.

I told a 9-10 year old off recently, or more precisely told her to calm down so she didn’t hurt the little ones. She did then go and sit with her parents, who were ignoring her obv.

Our local soft play has separate rooms and entrances for big kids and under 4s so happily it doesn’t really happen often and is very noticeable when it does.

A bunch of us take our 3-10 year olds to softplay, but they certainly know to avoid the baby/toddler areas, and to give littler kids plenty of space. Or help!

But we go during quiet times during the week (we home educate) and we're often the only people in there. And we leave as the schoolkids descend after 3, because it becomes utter Darwinian carnage.

It used to grind my gears when older kids climbed over my baby on the slide, in the baby/toddler area

Now my child is older, she's obsessed with the baby area and im constantly telling her to get out. Its like a forbidden fruit

Omg yes I hate this. Dont even take my 2 year old anymore. Too many parents just sitting off miles away not looking where their kids are. They also leave the gate wide open a lot when they go in and out. I had to
stop going the only time I would bother now would be in school time but even then last time we did that there was a big kid in the toddler part that wouldnt leave us alone.

Yes this is my absolute pet hate!! DS is 11 months old and we've been a few times lately. There's a massive area for older kids aswell as a football area and mini golf yet they still want to be in the baby bit (under 2's) Gets me fuming. DS is small for his age and I'm always wary they're going to knock him flying. Will be brave next time and tell them off myself. Last time we went a ?6 year old latched onto us and wouldn't leave us alone 🙃 absolute bone idol parenting. I hope all these parents of darling little Jonny's are reading this and take note.

Yup I hate it, there's plenty for the older kids to do at soft play yet there's always a handful of them who decide to come barrelling in to the baby section and nearly knock out the little ones 🤦‍♀️

Agreed. I take my 16m old Grandson once a week, where generally there are only a handful of toddlers and preschoolers... quiet and lovely. It's a big soft play place with plenty of space for the bigger children in the big section.
Most the time it's great .
However I made the mistake of taking him suring the school holidays.

Dear God the number of totally unsupervised big kids (8-10) year olds !

They literally ran through the little ones section hanging off the net areas, chucking the balls at each other and after a few balls had hit my toddler and my friends' I did go to the supervisors (who were mostly your very young leisure centre types) and asked them to take control.
When that didn't happen I used my 'I was a TA for 20 years ' voice
There were a couple of very sweet children who were genuinely careful but some of them were just feral.

Urgh we took DS to soft play when he was about 11 months, he was crawling around in the baby/toddler section. This guy was sat in there too with his 4 kids running around. Only one of them was a toddler, the others were probably between 5-9 years old. Made my blood boil.

This !!! I almost had a physical row with a rotten woman who's 6 yr old huge child (boy) was screaming into my 1.5 dd face and she stood there watching him, he pushed her over. Again she stood there. She didn't realise I was her mother and was trying to crawl through to get to her. I told the child he can't do that
Low and behold I got " that's my son your talking to missis) well let's just say she's lucky it was a kids play area. I literally went nose to nose with her. She told me she was a travelling woman not a dirty country woman like myself. My god. Never went back their again.