to think people should stick to the age restrictions at soft play ?

[Tillyscoutsmum]

I took dd to soft play today. She's almost 2. There are three main sections at our soft play - one for under 3's, one for under 5's and then the big main section for older children.

DD was happily playing in the under 5 section with similar aged children when three older boys (probably about 10 or 11) came rampaging in. They were knocking all the little ones over and at one point, one of them kicked dd in the head . It was all accidental - they were just being normal, boisterous 10 year old boys

AIBU to think their parents/carers should have asked them to go and play in the area for older children ? They were there for about 20 minutes and in the end, most of the little ones were taken out to avoid them.

YANBU, although DD1 (nearly 7) will sit in the baby section with ds(9 months) sometimes and play with him. But she's not messing around and usually ends up playing with the other babies too!!

coldtits

perserverance on you strikethroughs too

soft play means taking your child to an indooor play area where they get hot, sweaty, kicked, bruised and play in balls and with soft large ojects and come away with filthy feet and your purse looks weepy

I know sweetcheeks I knew I was taking my chances in AIBU

We go to the woods/park etc loads but it was crappy weather today and I fancied being able to sit and have a coffee whilst she played [lazy arse emoticon]

Ours is a big, newish one and isn't anywhere near as foul as some of them but it wasn't much fun today. As I mentioned before, lesson learned (or is it learnt ? Pedants ?)

We went to a wacky warehouse soft play 2 years ago and DD1 came out with sick (not hers) down her jeans I told the teenaged 'supervisor' and 1 hour later still hadn't cleaned it up!! Haven't been back to that one!

I can't keep my dd in the baby section (same age as OP's dd, same name too for that matter). She's off, up to the top, surfing down the slides and whizzing upside down across the zip lines.

Place is a blardy nightmare. The primary colours send her into some kind of trance. Only been twice but that's enough.

TSM, course you're not bu. Half term is hideous. Stay in, let her eat glitter.

Thank you for the link, Hulababy. Unfortunately we don't have anything similar around here, oh well, must get more bouncy etc. toys to fill the remaining rooms of the house ....

SOH DD goes in the older section as well. I swear she was a mountain goat in a previous life. At least she can do it all herself now and doesn't clamber all the way up there and then screech for me to come and retrieve her (getting my arse wedged in small gaps en route).

Ooh I love our local soft play. Stick DS age 2.11 in, grab coffee and bonus selection of tacky old mags, wave delightedly at him every now and again, both parent and child have a happy hour and a half.

Tis hideous when manic parents insist on policing their PFBs every move and glaring at me because I leave DS to get on with it.

But then we only go during the week, have learnt my lesson never to go at the weekend or school holidays, shudder.

We went to soft play today too. God, it was like Lord of the Flies by the time we came out.

I think the trick is to go as soon as it opens and it won't be so bad. Well,it'll be bearable, at least.

Those places really bring out the snobby, judgemental side of me too. I can't stand the yobbish behaviour of some (SOME) of the older boys in there, but when their parents finally appear from jabbering away in the corner, I always think "Aha!"

One time, though, my DS was on the bigger kids bit for the first time and was a bit unsure how to get round all of it, and loads of yobbish boys were pushing past him impatiently, and then this lad who was about 9 or 10 appeared and said "Would you like me to take your little boy round and show him how it's done?" This boy was FAB, so thoughtful and well-behaved and patient with my 4 year old and was honestly like a shining ray of light amongst all the yobbish other hooligans boys. He was so lovely I actually went out of my way to find his mum and tell her what a fantastic boy he was, how helpful he'd been with my DS, and how she must be really proud.

Of course YANBU, but just talk to the older kids and point out the signs.

As Curleyhairedassassin intimates, there seems to be some fear of talking to older boys (which I remember from when mine were toddlers). In my experience, boys, whilst a bit thoughtless, are normally willing to do the right thing when asked clearly. I often ask teenagers to pick up their litter and the only time I've had abuse is from a group of girls.

I am the mum of DSs age 5 and 8

I hate that place, Monkey business, that someone has pointed out. We went there last year and it was so expensive, plus we had to pay £2 each for the adults. I mean what's that about?

At that age the parents probably weren't watching them closely. But the staff should have been. Our local one is well-supervised. The staff aren't intrusive but they notice stuff like this and they'd have asked them to move.

I'd have asked them to move on myself and, if no joy, got a staff member.

YANBU

I have to say I love softplay, and can spend many an hour having a nice cuppa and a chat with friends while my 2 DS's use up some of their energy.

Ive never been to our local one.. just seen this on its site should I be worried

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