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I don't understand why people take children with them to supermarkets.
When I had a toddler (Asda was on Bbn Rd then)- I never did.
Shopping is stressful enough without being lumbered with children (and husbands for that matter) 
I appreciate that single parents would need to ask grandparents or other single parent friends (taking turns) to have care of children whilst making a shopping trip.
Supermarkets are not children friendly places, unless you treat a ride in a trolley for them as a pleasure trip - I'm sure that novelty wears off for them very quickly.
I find that they are often places where children have temper tantrums to the extreme annoyance of other shoppers - that shows that the children are stressed too.
So why on earth do you take them with you? |
Margaret, let's have a trip back to the real world where not everyone is happily married and has a loving, reliable partner to look after the kiddies whilst mum goes shopping, or indeed where a single mum can rely on her mum to look after the kids.
Margaret, smell the coffee. I am 40 , I have only recently started leaving my daughter in the house alone for any length of time, she is a well built 12 year old and I still worry. I work full time, I can't shop during the week, my mum is older than she would like you to know and though she is very young in her outlook I would not impose on her as she doesn't drive and lives a distance from me.
Before you start proselytising about how it was in your day....take a walk in my shoes. !