Does Anyone Else Notice This...or Is It Just Me..?

[dunnitall]

Has anyone else noticed how today the standard from years ago regarding child care/parenting is not as good in many cases as it was years ago?

I live on a main road and see lots of young parents with pushchairs, a younger child in the pram and a wee toddler holding onto the handle. Everyone I see pushes the pram sooo fast the poor little child hanging on is forced to keep up, even if he/she trips, the parents keeps going!

What is this about? In my day, the child held on and we (and our parents before) kept pace with the child...never made it rush or fall like they do now.

It's not just one or two...I've witnessed lots of people doing this. Do they not think of the poor child? I would love to make the parent do the right thing but of course...like maybe on here...I will be told I live in the past. TG I do, we knew the better times not now with no regard IMO for the children. Sad times methinks.

[pastafreak]

Last week I was walking along a fairly busy local road. A young man carrying shopping was about 30-40 feet ahead of me. His little girl...no more than 3...was toddling along about 20 feet behind, looking at this and that. Not once did dad look back at her. Until he got to the bus stop and saw she was not immediately behind him. So he yelled at her. I had to bite my tongue as I passed or I might have gotten a mouthful.

[sunny-dave]

The ones that scare me in my little town are the "Push the buggy into the road first" brigade - often using it as a way of creating a gap in traffic (rather than walking the 20 yards to the Zebra Crossing).

[Garaman]

You see lots of young children being ignored by their parents who are on their mobile phones too. That depresses me.

[Purist]

I find that sad too Garaman its a common sight, I also find it sad when the parent is pushing a toddler in a pushchair or walking and wearing headphones. It doesn't encourage interaction does it!

[Canary42]

I'm with you dunnitall. Bodes ill for the future.

[anneasquith]

Dunnital, I wonder do you live on a road near a school/ nursery ?

[Patsy33]

A lot of parents seem to be distracted or in a rush these days. I honestly think some are just a nuisance to their parent/ parents grom what Ive witnessed over the years. Poor little children.

[Patsy33]

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[baza]

I live on a road with a school at the other end, now I am retired and have nothing better to do than watch the yummy mummies walk the offspring to school in groups chatting away on their mobiles or to each other ignoring the toddlers behind. Gone are the days when parents interacted with their kids , now the kids think it's normal to have a phone to your ear all the time.

[dunnitall]

Glad it's not only me noticing these changes and not for the good either IMO. Yes Anne, children and parents walk to schools along this road. Also buses stop here and I notice just how many parents are on mobiles with their offspring dragging behind! Yes pasta seen that as well, seen how parents don't interact with their children only to shout and scream at them in a lot of cases because they aren't keeping up. Not nice to see nowadays and I despair for the future for these children as they will continue to do what they now know as normal. Sad isn't it.

[rowanwitch]

Jamie Bulger wasn't that far from his mum when he was taken... all it needs is a predator to see an opportunity.

[Peter Pedant]

ywah Dave - they push the pushchair out into the road and if they are left only with the handles then it probably wasnt safe to cross

the pram sooo fast the poor little child hanging on is forced to keep up,
NO it is just ten years later for you and your walking pace is just about as slow as a woman pushing a pram - and that is what you are noticing

[Peter Pedant]

sorry dunnitall ya not gonna like this ......

who remembers doing History at school ? ( at least 90% of Abers exclaim 'foo! datta long time ago!') and who remembers the Corn law struggle ( 1840-5) which splat the Tory party for a generation

and the cartoon in the book
Papa Cobden taking Sir Robert for a free trade walk?

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-papa-cobdenrichard-cobden-taking-master-robertsir-robert-peel-a-free-105281384.html

I cannot read the label as my eyesight has dimmed but it should be:
Oh do step out Master Robert !
Oh! Oh! you know I cannot walk as fast as you !

some things never change.

[dunnitall]

PP...sorry have I missed summat? It's early for me so probably lacking something since being up at 5:30 ... I just can't see what your post has to do with the way parents bring up (or don't) their children. There have always been exceptions to the rule but for me it seems a lot of parents nowadays don't have the patience or a caring attitude to their children. I have to agree with Patsy when she wrote that some children just seem a nuisance to their parent/parents...that's how I often see it too.

[Peter Pedant]

My bad dunnittall. Apols - dubbl sozza

I was CERTAIN someone was talking about walking speeds and dragging reluctant children along with them.

(// never made it rush or fall like they do now. //)
I spologise for mis-reading the original post

I can see now that a phrase like
//I see pushes the pram sooo fast the poor little child hanging on is forced to keep up, even if he/she trips, //

is nothing about walking too fast, like the Free Trade Walk of 1845 (I mean god wod free trade den -we in trump time innit?)

and is direcctly related to the subject of your post which is obviously we are about to be killed in our beds by a brown non-christian in a burqa or that you have found a python in your lav.

I promise to keep on subject in future..... carry on everyone

[-Talbot-]

I agree the standard from years ago regarding child care/parenting is not as good now... Two and half weeks ago I set off on holiday with three kids in tow and now I'm down to jut the one... Bloody careless eh.

[bhg481]

Talbot - very careless. A bit more effort and you could have got away from all three.

[dunnitall]

Talbot....tut tut you should've thought first. Shouldn't have taken em, you would have saved money and they could have enjoyed themselves home alone!! Poor children deprived of their pleasures...!

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