Noisy children at group

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I decided to bite the bullet and go along to a SW meeting this morning. I had texted the consultant who told me to come to a new member meeting when the regular meeting had finished. I arrived early and waited outside and all I could hear was utter chaos. Children were shouting and running around while the consultant was trying to deliver the talk. Just five minutes of that was enough to make me leave. I texted her and explained why I hadn't gone to the new member talk. What's it like at your SW meeting regarding noisy kids? I appreciate that people may need to take their DC but to let them run riot seems selfish to say the least. Is this the norm at morning groups?

It's half term so hopefully it's not like that every week

They’ll be in school other weeks

These weren't school age children though.

I had this problem too when I went to group.

It's really annoying because I'd much rather go to a group straight after work but it's often full of kids so I end up at the 7.30 group which means I get home at 9 which is too late for me.

There are a couple at my Saturday morning group but both very well behaved.

I briefly went to SW in the city I used to live. Here’s the run down.

Weekend/school holiday sessions- loads of school aged kids, some toddlers/ babies but not loads. Most school aged kids generally sat with tablets and headphones, the smaller ones were by far worst. Last 10/15 mins of the session all the kids were a bit bored and restless.

Weekday term time sessions: lots of babies/toddlers generally very rowdy.

You need to understand that one of SW’s biggest markets is new mums losing baby weight and stressed out seasoned mums…still trying to lose the baby weight. It’s like complaining there’s kids at the park. I gave up and left. Now I have 2 under 2 and would 100% take them both to groups as I have no childcare.

it should be child free. jesus! whats it like in summer for 6 weeks?

It's why I never went to day time meetings. I tried a few different ones. Toddlers made it impossible to listen and impossible to speak.

Evening ones were better for me

Yanbu. It’s not acceptable. Keep thinking of joining but could not cope with this!

Fair enough if people have to take their children but they need to keep them under some kind of control. I may have to look for an evening group 😒

I go on a Saturday morning. There are rarely any children there. The group is small and one woman brings a baby each week who I have never heard make a noise! I have a 4 year old and 1 year old myself and I try not to bring them to group as it’s impossible to pay attention. My 4 year old will happily sit with a tablet/phone if it’s just him but the 1 year old is a nightmare. If my husband is unable to be the parent in charge during this time then I usually skip group for the week.

We had two elderly ladies who yammered the whole way through the visas each week. The embers told them to ‘shhh’ the leader politely asked them to quieten down but every week they sat and talked to each other. Dunno why they came.

The SW consultant would have asked them to leave at the group I went to

What with raucous toddlers and yammering women, I think I'll join online as the only distractions at home are my two cats.

One of the reasons (by no means the only one though) I stopped going to group because a couple of women had very noisy kids and I could never hear what was going on - I realise that some people have to take their kids, and have no issue with that, but if you can't keep them under control or entertained for an hour and a half then surely it's best to just weigh and go?