Do you take your kids grocery shopping?
By muscare
@muscare (3068)
Australia
April 19, 2007 4:02am CST
If you do take them shopping, are they a help or a hindrance? Do they keep asking for everything they see? Do you occaisionally give in to their requests. I am actually quite proud of my 4yr old son, who doesn't ask for anything. I will end up getting him something, though, just for being such a good boy while shopping. My wife and I also make it a game, seeing if he can spot stuff that we need to buy, and getting him to help put it in the trolley. I actually hate shopping, but having my son behave is half the battle. Just makes an annoying job just that little bit more enjoyable.
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18 responses
@DarthDub (47)
• United States
21 Apr 07
Those rides they on the way out of the store are bit of annoyance also. One of the stores we go to it only costs a penny to ride them so i don't mind those too much. But the bob the builder and the clifford rides around here are between $.50-$1.00 to ride. They only ride those once in awhile though so it works out ok. :)
@samselvarajk (260)
• India
20 Apr 07
i do not take my children to grocery shopping because they take whatever they see.they do not ask anything simply take and put it in.finally the bill comes you pay through your nose and when you come home and check the bill you get tensed up really bad
@nickli (8)
• China
20 Apr 07
I agree with you. I often take my 3yr old son to shop on the weekend, my son like going to supermarket too. my son is very smart and docile. I tell he the goods of supermaket can't eat or tear down the envelope before paying, he never do it either. moreover, he ask me anything he did't know.
@muscare (3068)
• Australia
20 Apr 07
Yes, at first, we told our son that certain things weren't on sale for us, only other shoppers. I hate telling little fibs to my son, but sometimes..... We now just say that we don't like certain things and he doesn't often ask, which is good. I would have hated my son being one of those kids that cry and scream if they don't get their own way.
@tdbrower1969 (1242)
• United States
20 Apr 07
Yes, I take my son with me. We split up the shopping list and he gets his half and I get my half then we meet in the middle of the store and go to the check out lane. Our town has a small grocery store, only 6 isles and we shop there all the time and know all the employees, so I don't mind my son, who is 12 going on his own in the store. He is very good about looking at what brand has the best price, he has watched me do that. I enjoy having him help and I think it is a good experience for him.
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@DarthDub (47)
• United States
20 Apr 07
I have three kids and we take them with to the grocery store most all the time,and any other store we may go to. They have always been really good in the stores. The only problems we ever have are stores that have those stupid racecar or dump truck carts,my youngest daughter always wants us use one of those huge impossible to steer things. I can't stand those things and the actual cart part of them is almost always smaller than that of a normal cart. Other than that my kids are a joy to take with us to the store.
@wmaharper (2316)
• United States
19 Apr 07
My husband was constantly buying a toy for our oldest (2 1/2) son, so much to the point that every time we went into walmart, he would ask for a car. So, we started not buying him anything, although it's just as much fun for us as him, we would go and pick out a new car together, and we liked doing it for him, and they are like 1.00, so it's not like we were spending a fortune, we just didnt like what we saw, that everytime we came to a store, he would cry for a car. Well, we had one bad shopping day with him, where that's all he asked for, but the next time we went to walmart, he looked at his dad and said, "daddy, we no buy a car, we are just looking right?" and the hubby said "yes son" and my son was okay with that, and now he says "mommy, can we go look at all the cars? we no buy one, just look?" It's cute. he usually does pretty well, unless he's hungry, but then the hubby just takes the two boys to Mcdonalds (in the store) and I finish my shopping.
@Married2aMarine (1273)
• United States
20 Apr 07
My 2 year old likes to help me. He sits in the shopping cart and I hand stuff to him and he will put them in the cart for me. Of course, I only hand him stuff that is not too heavy or breakable. He really enjoys that and it makes him feel really useful. He also never ask me for anything even if he sees his favourites on the shelf. So, grocery shopping has never been a problem for me.
@Nardz13 (5055)
• New Zealand
19 Apr 07
Hi muscare. Yes we do take our children grocery shopping, We enjoy having them with us, They dont squawk for anything, they are such a big help, they choose what they want for school lunches, and they enjoy packing the food away at home. We just do our shopping and we're out of there.
@Cathzsmile (171)
• Philippines
19 Apr 07
Why not, if no one was around at home its better if we are going to bring them along. Atleast, they will lern how to value the money that we've earn and they also learn how to buy only things that are needed.
@wmaharper (2316)
• United States
19 Apr 07
My husband was constantly buying a toy for our oldest (2 1/2) son, so much to the point that every time we went into walmart, he would ask for a car. So, we started not buying him anything, although it's just as much fun for us as him, we would go and pick out a new car together, and we liked doing it for him, and they are like 1.00, so it's not like we were spending a fortune, we just didnt like what we saw, that everytime we came to a store, he would cry for a car. Well, we had one bad shopping day with him, where that's all he asked for, but the next time we went to walmart, he looked at his dad and said, "daddy, we no buy a car, we are just looking right?" and the hubby said "yes son" and my son was okay with that, and now he says "mommy, can we go look at all the cars? we no buy one, just look?" It's cute. he usually does pretty well, unless he's hungry, but then the hubby just takes the two boys to Mcdonalds (in the store) and I finish my shopping.
@agi_lucy (102)
• India
20 Apr 07
Yes
We should give opportunities since from the kiddish days to select thier items. it will improve thier decision making skills
