Why oh why do parents let their children

[charliegal]

pick the flowers in the park? This drives me crazy! Surely the flowers are there for everyone to enjoy..I am tired of seeing this. If it's not parents chucking litter on the floor in front of their children, they are letting them merrily fleece the park of daffodils etc.
I've just seen 3 sets of mums do this and it makes me .
Maybe I should add- AIBU?

no daisy chains for you then

No, I'm with you there... daisies and dandilions are free for the pickin, planted things like daffs aren't

agree. v. selfish

daisy chains heh heh, I mean the planted flowers. I live in the inner city, it makes me sad that people can't enjoy the flowers.

The kids round here help themselves to flowers in the garden too. Nearly all mine disappeared from the front garden when I was on the school run one day last week

Years ago my sister and her friend were taken home in a police car after the policeman caught them picking daffs from the communal gardens of some flats. They NEVER did it again.

agree, properly planted ones should not be picked, neither shouldmost wildflowers as some are rare, especially as you see most of them strewn across the pavement 200 yards further on.

could be like eating grapes in the supermarket, although I missed that one

I agree as well.

Tis not fair.

the thing that drives me mad is not that they do it, but that the mums are there, letting them

encourage them, even!

maybe the parents didn't know?
I only say this as on Fri we were at local park and my 2 year old had picked a handful of daffs....I was v v - we let her pick the ones in our backyard to put in the house

yeah, looking so pleased when they are handed said daffodils...grrr...what's WRONG with people?

in fact one mum was directing her child to where all the nicest ones are.

oooh, oooh...

squonk smells

Every spring its the same, and I try, I really do to tell them not to do it. On the one hand they want you to be happy with their gift, but I AM telling them, repeatedly, daisys and dandilions only. And it doesn't help when they see the other kids do it. I do explain why they shouldn't do it, that its for everyone to enjoy yadayada, but they want to present me with a bunch of daffs. Any top tips?

my dts(3) are only allowed to pick daisies and buttercups etc, ans as for throwing litter on the floor, they dare not as they know I turn into a monster, ds (6) will put his hands on his hips and tuts when hesees litter.

Of course I'm not talking about you good mummies.

LOL!

When my DH and I were 'going out' with each other he was on his way to my house and suddenly remembered he had wanted to bring a small gift for my Mum, instead of stopping in somewhere to buy something he just stopped his car at the side of the road and picked a big bunch of daffies. I was mortified.

Apart from anything bluebells and daffodils are poisonous!

Last weekend I saw an old lady swiping all the daffodils up the road from the council flower pot. Think she was taking them into the community centre for the church service.
DS1 (4) was furious and wanted to tell her off as he stops to look at the patch everyday to see what changes there are. Saddest part was that she pulled them so hard the bulbs were still attached.
I'd have thought the fencing around them would have been a deterrant...
Don't get me started on litter.

There's a big stand of pampas grass in our local park and last year I saw a woman with about 5 kids ripping the feathery bits out (it took quite a bit of effort) so's her little darlings could run around bashing each other with them. Unfortunately our cruddy cash-strapped council doesn't employ parkies anymore, or I'd have been straight on to them...