Kidults in Supermarkets

The Christmas before last I watched as two young girls (7-8 years old I would imagine) chased each other around a tower of fake presents in our local Boots. Another older woman looked at me and said 'This won't end well'. She videoed it on her camera until one of the girls got dizzy and fell onto the stack, and all the cardboard boxes fell on the girls. The girls screamed but weren't hurt, just shocked. Mum threw down the make up she was checking out and ran over, screaming at the shop assistants that the tower had fallen on her girls. The manager came over, also a bit shocked, and the video lady told her the girls had knocked it down while running round it. The Mum got very ansi and started screaming at the manager about the dangerous layout. The video lady got her camera out, and showed the manager the video of the girls knocking the tower over and calmly told the Mum that it was time the girls learned that shops are not playgrounds. She then gave her name and number to the manager incase she needed the video as proof. She was so calm and stately she reminded me of my first headmistress in infant school and I ended up in stitches. The Mum meanwhile was vying with the girls for who could make the most noise, obviously still shocked but probably also feeling guilty and now screaming at the girls as well as the manager. I left at that point to get away from the noise so no idea what became of it all.

You see this behaviour in swimming baths, particularly with grandpas trying to be super-grandpa, shouting and splashing water and blocking swimming lanes.

The same kind of parents who let their kids run riot in restaurants when you're trying to enjoy a meal. They don't teach their kids how to behave in public places because they have no filter themselves

Showing children that it is ok to charge around a supermarket as if it is a playground is not going to end well.
My GCs are all taught to behave differently in public places, to slow down and walk nicely and not to shout or scream and if they behave badly a parent will remove them from that place and withdraw any treats.
In a park or playground all bets are off, they can race round and make more noise.
Surely this is just common sense.

Where are the staff to tell this shopper to behave? Nowhere, or keeping their heads down.Nobody challenges anything now so crime and bad behaviour proliferates.

How daft. Some people don’t deserve to be parents.