ive just back from doing food shopping and im in shock, ive been in asda and morrisons and in both two women have left there babies in the trolley whist the go off getting shopping now putting the trolley at one side and getting something from the opposite side (but still with in a few steps away) is fine but the women left there babies( no older than a few weeks) and went down the other end of the shop!!!! :how can people do that???:loopy: to me my babies are the most precious things in the world and i would never do that.

sorry ive just never would have thought someone would do this!!

I always like the girls in eyesight, course now they can walk they like to be out of eyesight ;)
I don't get it either. I remember a post about someone who left their children in a car outside Tesco and the baby was crying and the approx 3 y/o sister was strapped in and couldn't do anything but the parent was not to be seen.
I have no comprehension of parents who feel it's safe :(

I saw a woman in town the other day, she was pushing a child in a pram and her mobile beeped...... she let go of the pram to get her phone, meanwhile the pram carried on down the hill !!

My jaw hit the floor and luckily her companion stopped the pram running away, she was totally oblivious........

I always like the girls in eyesight, course now they can walk they like to be out of eyesight ;)
I don't get it either. I remember a post about someone who left their children in a car outside Tesco and the baby was crying and the approx 3 y/o sister was strapped in and couldn't do anything but the parent was not to be seen.
I have no comprehension of parents who feel it's safe :(


that is disgusting :rant: i would have gone in and asked them to put a call out

I saw a woman in town the other day, she was pushing a child in a pram and her mobile beeped...... she let go of the pram to get her phone, meanwhile the pram carried on down the hill !!

My jaw hit the floor and luckily her companion stopped the pram running away, she was totally oblivious........

why do people have children if they are more bothered about there phone :rant: :confused: if im out on my own with my boys and my phone bleeps sometimes it takes me ages to look at my phone, or if im with someone i will ask them to take the pushchair and see to my phone.

I hate seeing people stood on the pavement waiting to cross the road with the pram already on the road. :loopy:

It is amazing how attitudes have changed on this one though. When my son was a baby it was quite acceptable and normal to park the pram outside the shop while you went in. The prams were huge and wouldn't fit into the shops anyway. There just wasn't the feeling that this wasn't a safe thing to do.

The first time I took him shopping I did that and then continued on my way out of the shop, with this weird feeling that something was missing. It was only a few minutes before I remembered and ran back to the shop to recover him, but I felt awful! :blush:

When I was tiny my mum did the same thing only she got all the way home and it was only when my grandad asked where I was that she realised I was missing, about 30 mins later.

I saw a little boy locked in a parked car outside school last week. It was ROASTING and he was banging on the window screaming for his mummy. He was about 2years old. He was in the car for about 25 mins. You wouldn't even leave a dog in a car in that heat for that long with no air. The police are at the school for traffic control and I spoke to one of the officers about it who took her reg down.

When the mother (doesn't deserve to be called this) came out of the school from collecting her other two kids she was on the mobile shouting at someone then screamed at the other two kids to "get in the effing car"

As it happens when I saw her yesterday at school she took the little boy in so the police must have done something.

When I told my SIL about it she said that this women is notorious for doing this with the little one. I think it's so wrong and could have slapped her!

When I was tiny my mum did the same thing only she got all the way home and it was only when my grandad asked where I was that she realised I was missing, about 30 mins later.

Lol reminds me of friends when they leave Ben on the bus!

ive just back from doing food shopping and im in shock, ive been in asda and morrisons and in both two women have left there babies in the trolley whist the go off getting shopping now putting the trolley at one side and getting something from the opposite side (but still with in a few steps away) is fine but the women left there babies( no older than a few weeks) and went down the other end of the shop!!!! :how can people do that???:loopy: to me my babies are the most precious things in the world and i would never do that.

sorry ive just never would have thought someone would do this!!

Though of course they could be suffering extreme tiredness and have been absent minded. If someone does this regularly then I'd be very worried. But I'd probably be thinking it was 'new mum brain'.

I've attached a wrist strap to our new buggy because I'm so afraid of having a brain blip and letting go of the thing.

I've never put our lad into a shopping trolley though - those things never look safe for little babies. :o Means I must internet shop but hey, it's no loss missing out on supermarket hell.

On the way home from the shops, my Gran used to give my mum's pram a shove so it went up the hill and while it did she said, "Bye bye baby." then, "Back to mummy." when it rolled back down to her.

One day she shoved too hard and the pram went over the brow of the hill, down the other side and launched into the Grand Union Canal. It sailed quietly off until a couple of lads hooked it with their fishing rods.

On the way home from the shops, my Gran used to give my mum's pram a shove so it went up the hill and while it did she said, "Bye bye baby." then, "Back to mummy." when it rolled back down to her.

One day she shoved too hard and the pram went over the brow of the hill, down the other side and launched into the Grand Union Canal. It sailed quietly off until a couple of lads hooked it with their fishing rods.

Was the baby in it? OMG

On the way home from the shops, my Gran used to give my mum's pram a shove so it went up the hill and while it did she said, "Bye bye baby." then, "Back to mummy." when it rolled back down to her.

One day she shoved too hard and the pram went over the brow of the hill, down the other side and launched into the Grand Union Canal. It sailed quietly off until a couple of lads hooked it with their fishing rods.

roflmao!

I've left the pram outside the shop, but 'safe' because the dog was attached to it...I'm not going to recount how that ended. I'm still too embarrassed 3 years later. Use your imagination :o :hihi:

On the way home from the shops, my Gran used to give my mum's pram a shove so it went up the hill and while it did she said, "Bye bye baby." then, "Back to mummy." when it rolled back down to her.

One day she shoved too hard and the pram went over the brow of the hill, down the other side and launched into the Grand Union Canal. It sailed quietly off until a couple of lads hooked it with their fishing rods.

Crikey, she is lucky it floated, or you might not be here to tell the tale! I bet your gran didn't do that again in a hurry.

Crikey, she is lucky it floated, or you might not be here to tell the tale! I bet your gran didn't do that again in a hurry.

Yes, I don't know how it floated as apparently it was one of those wartime era prams, built to withstand a Nazi invasion.

roflmao!

I've left the pram outside the shop, but 'safe' because the dog was attached to it...I'm not going to recount how that ended. I'm still too embarrassed 3 years later. Use your imagination :o :hihi:


PMSL :hihi:

Us imperfect parents should write a book about how NOT to bring up baby

Do you know the women was down the other end of the shop or that someone else was not within eye sight of the children.

We would all love to keep our children close by but in the real world this doesn't happen. I have left my daughter in the car whilst I go into the shop (corner shop) and she has been crying - this is due to the fact that it is less traumatic for both of us to leave her and she screams from getting in the car to getting out you switch off in the end.

I also leave her asleep in the car outside home or in the pram as she wakes up the minute you move her.

Do you know the women was down the other end of the shop or that someone else was not within eye sight of the children.

We would all love to keep our children close by but in the real world this doesn't happen. I have left my daughter in the car whilst I go into the shop (corner shop) and she has been crying - this is due to the fact that it is less traumatic for both of us to leave her and she screams from getting in the car to getting out you switch off in the end.

I also leave her asleep in the car outside home or in the pram as she wakes up the minute you move her.

When we used to childmind the littlies would often fall asleep in the car, so we would take it in turns to sit out in the car with them, I used to take a book and it was quite a nice break really as my husband would be in the house with the other 3 or 4 :)

I would never have left them out in the car on their own though.

what about when you have to pay in a petrol station .what do you do ?

When Lewis was about 2 weeks old I lifted him from his moses basket onto my bed but then dropped him (only about 10cm) and he sorta rolled over on the bed - then cried. He wasn't hurt - just a bit shocked but I was nearly crying!!!! :(

what about when you have to pay in a petrol station .what do you do ?

My mum once saw a woman leave her little boy in the car whilst she went to pay. The woman then went running out of the shop cos he had managed to unbuckle himself from his car seat and was sat in the drivers seat 'driving' the car :hihi:

I leave mine in the car at the petrol station, car doors locked. From birth, because it was such a faff taking him out for two minutes, when you can see the car from the garage window. Now, at 3, he generally wants to be left in the car as he has taken on a passionate hate of the local Somerfield Garage (I don't blame him).
I have also been known to leave him outside the house in the car on cool days when he's fallen asleep, with a window open, knowing I can see him easily from the living room window. To be fair, we live on a quiet, dead-end road with neighbours we know and socialise with, and few strangers with the stamina or interest in stomping up our outrageous hill.
I think you do need to keep a sense of perspective. There isn't, in fact, someone waiting around every corner to steal your child.
On the other hand, should you take your eyes off them and something happens, you would never forgive yourself. It's important to find a balance, I think.

For the record, he's never out of my site in a shop (unless he legs it); and leaving him in the car where I can't see him - no, no way.

Now my three are a little older - 6 8 and 2- I do leave them in the car while I pay at a petrol station. I didnt however used to leave them when they were very young babies. I used to sometimes leave my eldest with the youngest in the supermarket while i went back an aisle to get something but not to go wandering round the whole shop - not because I am in fear of someone taking them but now at the age of 2 nearly three our lttlest can undo her straps and likes to get out of the trolley! Also I hate to think what havoc could be caused by my three left unattended!! :hihi:

I leave my little one in the car while I go to pay for petrol. The doors are locked and I have my eyes on my car all the time. If anyone went near my car I'd be out the door like a shot but like cosywolf says I think you have to find a balance.

[QUOTE=cosywolf;3860175]I leave mine in the car at the petrol station, car doors locked. From birth, because it was such a faff taking him out for two minutes, when you can see the car from the garage window. Now, at 3, he generally wants to be left in the car as he has taken on a passionate hate of the local Somerfield Garage (I don't blame him).
I have also been known to leave him outside the house in the car on cool days when he's fallen asleep, with a window open, knowing I can see him easily from the living room window. To be fair, we live on a quiet, dead-end road with neighbours we know and socialise with, and few strangers with the stamina or interest in stomping up our outrageous hill.
I think you do need to keep a sense of perspective. There isn't, in fact, someone waiting around every corner to steal your child.
On the other hand, should you take your eyes off them and something happens, you would never forgive yourself. It's important to find a balance, I think.

I totally agree with you. I have left babybell in the, well ventilated car asleep & sat in the garden with the paper until she wakes up. We live on a quiet road too with neighbours who look out for each other. I also leave her in the (locked) car while I pay for petrol. I would leave her if I popped into the local shop & she was asleep. I can see the car the whole time if I leave the door open. In really hot weather I try & avoid the car altogether because I think it must be torture for her just for the few minutes it taked to strap her into the car seat & then actually start the engine & wind the windows down or turn the air con on.