So does no-one else leave their baby outside the shop in the buggy any more then?

[KathyMCMLXXII]

Just wondered because I am the only person I know in RL that does this!

I wouldn't leave him outside Sainsburys for an hour or anything, but when it's a little shop and either I'm only going to be a moment, or I can see out of the window, it doesn't bother me a bit.

Surely it's the easiest thing to do?

Tibsy - same here and it's not PFB syndrome..I did the same with all my dd's.

I just think if I'm there I have a better chance of saving them in unforeseen circumstances than if I'm watching them out of a window...

I wouldn't do it. I know the chance of someone taking them is extremely rare but it is not worth the risk however minute that risk may be.

Never! But neither would I leave my dogs.

HotXMum, do you only have one child? Would you get more than one child out and cross the petrol forecourt with them?

I used to leave dd2 in her buggy all the time when I went in for her gingerbread man bribe - full wall size window so I could see out and she would wave at the baker

BUT then one day some nobboid with a big dog came past and his dog barked and strained on his lead to get her

I came out and was quite er forward in my views of this. I may have called him a farkin twat

so now she comes in with me all the time

I have often left mine outside the local post office., although not as much the corner shop but you can actually get a pushchair in there. Now they are always asking to be left in the car if I need to pop into a shop. Not so bad with DS who is 6 but DD is only 2.

hello OO
when are you coming over?

I wouldn't do this in a million years - am shocked to hear others do!

Have been known to leave DS in pushchair outside the little corner shop. I tend to take him in with me now as I've downgraded to a smaller buggy which I can get into the shop - and he likes engaging the shop staff in conversation and yelling out the prices of things (OK, just yelling out One! Three! at random is more like it). It depends a bit on how many people are in the shop already (it's all narrow aisles and sacks of charcoal briquettes etc), how much I've got to buy (is it mulling over the choice of buscuits or just grabbing a bottle of cider?) and how cold or wet the weather is outside.

I know it's generally safe enough to do it (stranger danger is such a low risk, realisitically) but there is a tiny voice that says "BAD mother". Especially when you're leaving your DC outside the shop while you pop in for booze. Or fags...

dunno

form filling atm

extremely boring

but my bit is done as dh is the one on the visa (or summat)

inlaws just returned from month in Perth, loved it but mil ankles swelled in heat

I leave the kids outside shops here all the time

yes but you have spiders on leads instead

or toads

they make damn fine baby sitters

i am just back from the local shop where i left my buggy outside.

local shop permanently crammed aisles so a nightmare.

chap comes in and very gently lectures me about it. this is after i watch him speak to dd1 and he straightens up to see me looking at him.

he then went on to attempt to horrify me into not doing it by telling me of crazies he has known including a schizophrenic neighbour. it all went a bit quiet when i said schizophrenia is a terrible disease.

as i left he called after me "at least tie it to the post"

wtf?

hadn't thought of dogs though, more frightening thought than people for some reason.

no i would never ever do it. If i can't the trolley in then i go elsewhere.

Interesting MrsApron.... what sort of a guy was he - young or old? Do you think he had children himself?

he was in his 30s and am i don't think he did have children because

1. he said he tied his dog up and never mentioned children
2. he was non-comittal when i suggested that he was concerned about his (alledgedly)knife wielding schizophrenic neighbour due to children in adjoining garden.

Very bizarre.
I don't suppose you had a chance to point out to him that knife-wielding schizophrenics have been known to enter shops.

Love the idea that leaving your baby outside a shop is only ok if you tie it up

I would NEVER leave mine alone in any public place

NEVER!
I used the disabled toilet in m&s the other day so i could get the twin buggy in with me and a lady, who was able bodied and i know not all disabilities can be seen, but she looked mobile enough to use a normal lav to me, was waiting outside.
she moaned because i was in there etc so i explained about the pushchair and not leaving the kids outside.
there is absolutely no way on gods earth i would leave my two babes outside the toilets!!

or a shop either!

NO, I wouldn't...but maybe if we lived in a different area...who knows....saying that...maybe I should startt it, maybe someone is gonna take my monsters on (they soon bring them back, lol)

Ah now I don't leave mine outside the toilets - I wouldn't be able to see or hear if anything happened unless it was very loud, and it even then would take a few moments to rush out IYSWIM.