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Some parents' pain threshold for screaming toddlers is much higher than mine.If mine played up I just used to pick them up , leave my shopping and take them outside/ home/ to the play park and then come back later. I wish some parents would do the same and not tough it out.

BB100 Wrote:

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> If a child is screaming in Sainsbury's I just go

> up to them and ask them what the matter is. It

> guarantees perfect silence and usually a very

> brief chat with a parent relieved that someone is

> being sympathetic.


I've tried this a few times. Along the lines of "Oi, what's that noise?" When it works the thanks come tumbling out from the distressed parent. When it doesn't, you get some very odd looks and a few people tapping in 999 on their phone. Not sure I'd advise it.

Salsaboy suggested

Lets ban old people from supermarkets at the weekend.


Not a bad idea! It would be quieter for them to shop during the day, in the week.


It maybe that it hadn't occurred to them to change their habits of shopping on a Saturday?!


Just a thought

womanofdulwich Wrote:

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> Some parents' pain threshold for screaming

> toddlers is much higher than mine.If mine played

> up I just used to pick them up , leave my shopping

> and take them outside/ home/ to the play park and

> then come back later. I wish some parents would do

> the same and not tough it out.


I wish everyone was like you.....it's infuriating that despite some parents' scream threshold being high, they don't consider that other people's might not be.


I am not exaggerating when I say that there was a non-stop background scream for the hour i was in there on saturday.

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