to think some parents put their dc in danger when crossing the road as they are too lazy to walk a few more meters up the road to a safe crossing.....?

[LoveBeingAMummy]

Two mums are in the middle of the road with pushchairs, on a main road that is 40 mph, at the brow of a hill and a few meters from a newly built crossing island, why?

I just don't get why they do this, i just want to scream at them to get off the road and to be more careful with their children.

So AIBU or is there a perfectly valid reason for doing this?

YANBU.

I saw a mother dragging her screaming 3yr old along the central part of a dual carriage way when there was a crossing not 3 metres away.

Spotty certainly didnt bring me up to cross a road in that fashion. For shame.

YANBU!!

I hate this!

nearly drove into mum and buggy the other day-just stepped out in the middle of the road!, 50 yards from zebra crossing which they then WALKED PAST when theyd crossed!

I see this all the time.Lazy feckers.

YANBU

However what bugs me even more is when you see the pushchair on the road while the patent or whoever stands on the kerb. In fact it pissed me off so much (possibly due to preg hormones) that yesterday i stopped my car and told the girl to get the child off the road and i asked if she really was that stupid. She just looked at me blankly

that should clearly say parent

I did tell someone off once when their dd raod straight across the road (in a shopping out of town car park) he started to tell me it wasn;'t his fault her sister was meant to be loking after her

I see this all the time and it makes me livid. I normally don't judge anyone, as it only takes one bad day for you to come across as a useless parent to onlookers, but this thing is just ridiculous!

On my way to work I have to go by a 40mph road with cars parked all along one side of the road. Nine times out of ten, I'll spot a buggy slowly creep out from between the parked cars while the adult really is nowhere in sight (hidden by the top of the cars, of course). Do they think the buggy has a force field round it that makes it resistant to a fast-moving car?? Why not just walk a few extra yards and cross safely at the pedestrian crossing??

YANBU, on the other hand, I nearly decapitated a daschund a couple of weeks ago. I was driving home and stopped at a crossing to let a woman cross. I had failed to see the extendable dog lead with dachund attatched on the other side of the road . Silly bint was raving at me for not being more careful. I told her to go to the police if she felt she had a case. Still waiting for the knock on the door.

Hi, I am really annoyed with a childminder that I see at school. She looks after up to 10 children (which seems a bit high) she lives opposite the school but does not use the crossing (with lollipop lady). She crosses all the children across the main road when the crossing is only 70 metres away. Its a really busy road, especially at this time of day.

YANBU - on the way home from school today, passsed an accident where a young man (looked about 20) had tried to duck through traffic and was hit. Ambulance was attending - he looked ok luckily.

I don't get it either. When I am by myself I will just cross wherever (taking appropriate notice).

But when I have my boys with me, always at a crossing - I want them to learn to cross at lights/zebra/island what have you for when they are out and about by themselves.

I always cross at the crossing. Also have on several occaisons had cars stop at green lights and wave me across, and then the drivers get puzzled when I shake my head, it happened a lot when I ahd toddlers/mindees, but I wanted them to learn to cross whne they saw the green man