When are your kids too old for you to use the Parent parking spaces at supermarket (if they have no additional needs)?

[Janefx40]

Just wondering really. My DD is 6 (I also have a younger boy but he wasn’t there). For context the spaces at our local are limited…there is usually one available but often only one and sometimes they are full.

Obviously if kids have neurodiversity, physical needs or any other specific reason to be closer to the shop then that’s different.

For kids with no additional needs and are reasonably good at not running off (still 6 so can happen nevertheless), would you park in the parent and child?

12, but as I was 5’8” at age 11 I don’t think my mum would have used it! Personally I stopped when my kids were about 7/8 as they are perfectly capable of walking and not running out between cars.

Wow what an entitled arrogant arse.

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Until your children can get in the car and reliably do up their own seat belts.
So maybe about 8.
I think 12 is pushing it.
The extra space is to allow for putting in baby car seats and to do up seat belts for young DC, once you don't need to do that then use a normal space

My dc don't have additional needs so I stopped using them when we no longer needed the side space to lug a child car seat out or load a child in to a buggy. So when youngest was around 4. I used to curse not being able to get a parent- child space when i had toddlers but have never felt the need since carseats and buggies no longer used. Mine were never really runners. Every family/child different though.

It isn't "awful" to use a disabled space if you have a blue badge but aren't in a wheelchair. The whole point of the blue badge is to allow parking in disabled spaces; why would they give the badge if they hadn't assessed the person as needing to park in a disabled space?

I have a blue badge; after a seizure it would be massively unsafe for me to cross a car park to get back to the car in a normal space. Disabled spaces are usually close to the shop, attached by a safe crossing and I'm not going to damage anyone's car by flinging the door open because I don't have a clue what I'm doing.