AIBU to ask parents/carers to control toddlers in shops?

[TheOtherMrs]

Just been to do a quick shop with DH. A small child came running around a corner straight in to DHs legs. The child's mother went ballistic, screaming into DHs face about looking where he was going and threatening to hit him - she hadnt even seen what had happened!. Fortunately the child was fine and a shop assistant calmed her down, stating that DH wasn't in the wrong and that perhaps using the child seat in the trolley for the child, rather than bread, was the way forward.

It surely not too much to ask that children be properly looked after in busy shops?

@Springtimesunshinesun - obviously an adult can fall on a child anywhere - I’m not saying they can’t - I was just clarifying what I think @K0OLA1D was saying.

And yes, children aren’t always compliant, or of buggy age, but I think that all most of us want is for parents to do their best in the circumstances, to recognise that supermarkets aren’t safe or sensible places for kids to run/scoot/cycle round, and to try to stop their kids. I don’t expect perfection - I wasn’t a perfect parent and my boys weren’t perfect, compliant children, and I think the vast majority of parents do do their best - and even the best parent can have an off day.

Sure, but then put them in the trolley seat and don't let them run around all over the place being a c*nt.
It's a very simple problem to solve with the basic tools available at the time.

YYY to this.

A buggy would also do the trick.

It's a daft post though. Nobody who let's their kids run wild in the aisles is going to start laying down the rules after seeing this post, as these people are obviously idiots who couldn't care less!

Sounds like it's the parent who needed to control themself.

They can go in a buggy until they are sent to school, normally around four. After that, they can normally be relied upon to behave themselves as long as their parents take responsibility to train them. It's not their fault if their parents drop the ball. Some parents are completely feckless.

Wow, judgemental much? Letting your child out of a buggy/trolley is not pandering to their every whim. SoME silly parents do this; most don’t. Some are just letting their kids learn what veg looks like and how to shop 🙄I’m a mother of 4 and a secondary teacher- my kids are never allowed to misbehave in public and very rarely in the house either. But guess what? I let my toddler out of the trolley

If kids run into my heavy electric wheelchair, especially if I’m moving, it’s really dangerous for them.

Toddlers especially would be sent flying, or be hit in the knees by the metal foot plate.

I have been genuinely concerned about a child cracking their ribs because he ran full pelt into my hand control which is hard, reinforced plastic and it hit him directly in the ribs- he was really winded. That was in a kids exhibit in a museum so not a totally outrageous place for a child to run around.

Obviously in a playground or something, even the street kids will run around, but it’s unnecessary in shops.

Anyone get the feeling that the people who moan that kids no longer have any discipline in one breath, would also moan that parents wrap their kids up in cotton wool and not let them make mistakes in another?

I think people just like a moan about kids. But in this case i would say the parents are in the wrong. It's their job to risk assess a situation, not the child's. I hate doing the school run as I'm constantly diving away from kids on scooters (near a main road), and then there is the cycling parents who have very wobbly young kids cycling on a very busy main road with no cycle lane - just because they hope one day they will be an olympian cyclist. I once saw that on a 60mph speed limit road. Dick heads.

I just think some people lack judgement and ability to risk assess.

a) don't use "Karen" as it is an Ageist sexist slur

b) UK isn't intolerant enough of idiot parents and their boisterous, undisciplined offspring

c) if someone shouts at me like that? I laugh at them. They hate it

Stop using the misogynistic "Karen" slur ffs

@TheOtherMrs
"Control a Toddler"
The fact that you used Control and Toddler in the same sentence is hilarious.

The Parent however should not have blamed somone else for her mistake and sounds a delight!