Shops are not playgrounds

[Graveltone]

Wish some parents would understand that shops are not playgrounds! Kids play with the toys, swing on the barriers, run around etc.

This is obviously more an issue when the schools are on holiday.

Oh I can. All types of parents too from upper class to not so upper class let kids scoot around on their scooters. It’s not a playground ffs in our local supermarket park is 5 mins away can’t they wait?!

I blame lack of parenting tbh.
The parents are entitled arseholes who feel they, and their spawn, should be allowed to do whatever they like, and so are breeding even more entitled arseholes.

When I take DNephew to the supermarket it’s always toys etc left behind and if he asks for a lot, he doesn’t get it.

No way on gods sweet earth is he allowed to play there and his parents wouldn’t let him do it either.

It's great when other posters don't even need to add "and then they all clapped" at the end. 10/10 thoroughly enjoyed reading.

I always say out loud “I thought I was in Tesco not kiddie paradise”

So do I. I’m nearly old enough to be in it

Nobody should be riding a scooter indoors!

I think you'll find most people over 65 don't behave like that. The ageism is dripping from your post.

And I don't think anyone should be riding a scooter in the supermarket, whatever their age.

And that smell! New carpet smell and hiding in a carpet roll from your sibling while your parents umm and ahh over the competing virtues of underlay.

Don't be daft. Nobody of 65 is that decrepit. What you're describing is people over 85. Jeez, 65 year olds these are shopping in H&M, going on hiking holidays to Kathmandu and most of them are still fucking working full time (me included) so the idea that we've got time to talk to shop staff for 3 hours or spend all day in Tesco is pretty anal.

In fact I get so pissed off with parents who take half an hour to ask little Johnny what sort of cake (or whatever) he'd like whilst blocking those shelves. It happens time and time again. They might have all the time in the world but I haven't. If you want to pore over food options go to a restaurant.

Kids hate shopping, I don’t know why people put themselves through it. Just order online and go and do something more fun.

Yes and they will get one no doubt with the consensus being that children should never be allowed anywhere and the inevitable comparison to dogs and the good old ‘I prefer dogs to people’ line.

It’s like playing bingo these days. Yawn.

In my opinion children should be allowed everywhere, absolutely everywhere. What’s the point not allowing them somewhere for years and then they’re suddenly allowed to go and don’t know how to behave. The issue is parents who don’t teach them to behave while they’re there. Scooters, heelys and bikes aren’t acceptable shop toys and the parents should be teaching them that. I saw a lovely kid in Morrisons the other day pushing one of those kiddie trolleys putting in stuff their mum told them to, they got in the way a bit, they were a bit slow but no one minded, tutted or said anything, because the child was just learning. If children are just learning that’s fine, it’s when they’re allowed to run riot it’s not ok. The same as dogs, the same as dogs, the same as adults.

Of course. A lot of kids are hooligans, so let’s blame old people. .🙄

On any thread about the behaviour of children there’s posts about old people (45+ 😂) as a ‘gotcha’ because they think we shouldn’t be allowed to talk ‘badly’ about groups of people. But when the behaviour of one group is so bad they’ve had to be banned from multiple shops and even areas and it’s in the news then I think discussing it isn’t discriminatory, it’s a discussion that needs to be had. If thousands of 80 year olds arranged to converge in one area of a town and damage property, shop lift, rob and hurt people then it would be fine to discuss it!

Surely no-one has the ‘right’ to ride their scooter in a supermarket, @Allfur?

If a kid on a scooter rams into my FIL, it would probably cause his leg or hip to break, because he has bone cancer there. That won’t heal, because of the cancer, and he will end up in a wheelchair. He is fiercely independent, and this will kill him.

Of course, he might get hit by someone on a scooter when he’s walking to or from the shops, but at least when he is outdoors, he knows there might be cyclists/people on scooters, and can watch out for them - I doubt he’d expect one to come flying round the corner in ASDA.

And yes, of course, he could do his shopping online (or we could do it for him because he can’t use a computer), but then he will end up stuck in his flat, with little or no human contact, feeling he has lost a big part of his independence - which would be bad for his mental health - and why should he, and every other vulnerable person, hide themselves away so that parents don’t have to say to their children “No, you can’t ride your Heelies/scooter/bike in Tesco” - and mean it!

@greenpolarbear we have an elderly lady - guessing late 80s who has a purse for every coin denomination. When gets change she puts the £2 in the £2 purse etc. Then takes out a wad of expired coupons to see if any are valid. She then puts the coupons away for the next time. Expired coupons do not become valid!

It's not easy to stop a full trolley when a kid runs in front of it yet if you hit a child you get a mouthful of abuse like it's your fault the child wasn't restrained.

Believe me its not just in shops! I am a flight attendant and people allow their kids to behave like feral animals on planes as well! Running up and down aisles, in and out of the galleys! Jumping up and down on seats while pulling on the passenger in fronts seat, kicking the seat in front. They allow them to chuck food and rubbish everywhere and even scribble all over the aircraft!

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And I think AGEISTS need to keep their nasty AGEISM to themselves!!!

YANBU. I can't believe how people just allow their children just to run around shops. It's lazy parenting.

@greenpolarbear , over 65 you say, you do realise most of us are still working and in just as much of a hurry to get round Tesco as you are.
Think I’ll wander off tutting about ageist posters while swigging from one of my many bottles of water, while replacing something I obviously didn’t need in the first place.

Can’t believe the cheek of people who ask shop assistants and small shops owners could they look after their DC for an hour or so.

They are not childminders and the shops are not crèches.