Ewwww.....primary school kids in shopping trollies

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I may be classed as a pearl clutcher and am prepared to maybe be told so but...

Does anyone else think it really unhygienic when you see primary school children riding in the basket of a shopping trolley? As in dressed in their school uniforms where mum has popped in for a few bits on the way home.

Bless them, been at school all day walking and standing in God knows what - in and out of the loos with possible wee, poo, vomit covered floors, walking by dog poo and possibly stomping in muddy puddles on the way to the shops. 😖

This is where we then put our food....sometimes unpackaged like loose fruit and veg. Yuk!!

When I worked in retail the rubbish bags from the outside bins would be transported to the warehouse in a customer trolley. I'd worry more about the bin juice that kids tbh.

This is why I loved the disabled child trolley for DS with ADHD. He could get in the seat himself, no need to ride in the basket. Now he's much more reasonable and will actually walk around with me.

See My daughter is a very tall 6 year old who obviously don't fit into the seat part and she's autistic and she can't walk too much so I have no other choice but to put her into the main part of the trolley if I made her walk around the whole shop she'd get way to overwhelmed and she physically wouldn't do it

I think you'd catch more from 100s of unwashed hands on trolleys vs the shoes of a child. This is also why we wash unpackaged food before we eat it.

I carry anti bac as standard but with three kids, including a toddler and a baby.. Hope and health has forsaken me 😂

Presumably you don't run your shoes all over the inside of a shopping trolley. It's not really a valid comparison

Having said this I don't really have much concern about trollers and hygiene

Human beings need their immune systems challenged, that's how immunity builds up.you can always spray everything with dettol or anti bac when you get home. I once watched a documentary about asthma and other diseases where they said that modern obsession with sanitising everything isn't great. Not that we want to go back to babies and children dieing of preventable illnesses but maybe balanced approach is best. My autistic gd tests mud and moss etc. She's a very healthy, sturdy little girl.

I think that the chances are that the handle of the trolley and all the other stuff that you have to touch is probably worse. The amount of people who don't wash their hands after going to the loo is staggering!

We're exactly the same - better for our autistic DS too - these kind of threads make me mega paranoid about all the things we do daily that people will be silently judging

Children’s shoes are the least of your concerns where supermarket shopping trolleys are concerned.

Rats and their bodily functions, along with being used to hold rotten food in the warehouses is a far greater concern.

Maybe they've just bought them from the reduced shelf?

I agree I once saw a bad accident, a baby sat in the proper trolley seats, older sibling in the main trolley part. The older sibling stood up in the trolley part and reached over towards a stack of fruit, the trolley toppled, baby and sibling both hit the hard supermarket floor.

You'd be challenged here, there are signs specifically saying not to put children in the trolleys.

Nice to see you have such disrespect for safety.

There are signs to say children cannot stand up in the trolley. My children sit in the trolley.

I also haven’t been challenged in over 7 years of doing it. Why? Because this perspective seems only to exist on the internet, where people can have all kinds of opinions they wouldn’t dare say in real life. As I say, they’d look pretty silly if they did challenge me. What would they expect to happen?

Same. My ds is 4 nearly 5 and was terrified of the trolley seats so I put him in the trolley once, now routine is key and he has to go in the trolley. He's really unsure of heights when I say height I mean a chair is a height to him but obviously the trolley has sides so he doesn't bolt he's nervous because it's something that moves but loves it at the same time and I just can't push his disability pushchair and a trolley at the same time so in he goes works for us both, don't know how I'll ever get him out of the habit but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

What kind of school did you go to????

My 7 year old autistic daughter sits in the trolley, I’m a single mum and I work full time so if we go food shopping, she’s with me. Only way to avoid a stressful meltdown is to sit her in the trolley with her ear defenders on. Seriously, do better. Don’t be so judgemental.

Really? I think you need to get bigger problems in your life if you worry about that! Think of all the people who go to the toilet and don't wash their hands that pick up the food you buy, that pick up shopping baskets and trolleys! People need germs to build an immune system! The most sickly people I know are the ones that are scared of germs (I'm not putting people whose immune systems are suppressed in this same category)

I just came here to say that I’d probably be more bothered about what my DC might catch off of the shopping trolley, rather than DC contaminating it 😂😂

You miss the point. The OP is talking about kids sitting in the actual trolley not the chair in the trolley

It makes the trolley go wonky though. So keep the kids out. Mine have never sat in one once they were too big for the seat.

My nine year sometimes sits in the trolley and I whizz around really fast in the quiet aisles or in the car park. Life is too short to pay attention to pearl clutches

I’m really hygiene conscious but as those trollies have been touched by scores of unwashed hands that have been touching god knows what and had peoples bags and shopping all
over them I just think all the dirt/germs in that category is going to be dirty and germy all the same. Are a child’s school shoes always worse than someone who’s freshly coughed or sneezed over the same trolley? I dont know. First thing I do when home from supermarket is take off my outdoor clothes and wash my hands.

Mine used to sit in the trolley, why? Because he's disabled and couldn't walk around the whole supermarket and I'd 9/10 times be on my own.

The loose veg (and fruit) all originated on a farm somewhere, and much of it will have had to be picked by humans who didn't have access to sparkly clean loos and hand-washing facilities. Letting kids stand in the trolleys is not going to cause a material increase in risk really.

There are safety issues, but a grubby 5 year old is unlikely to be the most minging thing a supermarket trolley has ever contained.