Food and drink by the till

good_advice

I was in the supermarket this morning and overheard mums talking to their toddlers =

that makes me really sad.... ( I hate this saying, just say NO!.)

Why have you put that into our trolley? = cause I wanted to! - but do we really need it?

You cannot pick up things because you have no money!

indsty

purpleivy wrote: »

I found it was quite simple when the children were small. They didn't ask because they knew the answer would be no! If the answer is going to be no, they don't bother asking!

We obviously went to the same school of parenting. You have to start saying / meaning NO when they are tiny. If you leave it till they are two or three it is too late. They know they can whine and you give in. Saying "no" is not mean, it is healthy, caring and nurturing.

I didn't often have to say "no" while shopping because they knew it was not up to them what we bought, it was mum's choice. They often got to choose things like which kind of fruit, which kind of porridge, what shape pasta. But that is as far as it went.

kerri_gt

indsty wrote: »

We obviously went to the same school of parenting. You have to start saying / meaning NO when they are tiny. If you leave it till they are two or three it is too late. They know they can whine and you give in. Saying "no" is not mean, it is healthy, caring and nurturing.

I didn't often have to say "no" while shopping because they knew it was not up to them what we bought, it was mum's choice. They often got to choose things like which kind of fruit, which kind of porridge, what shape pasta. But that is as far as it went.

Yup, that's how I was parented. I actually remember when I was little (still in child seat in the trolly) being allowed a bag of walkers roast chicken flavour crisps to eat on the way round - for some reason we were late shopping and I guess my dinner was late. It was prob nearly 30yrs ago now and I still recall it, that's how rare the treat was. Unlike today (now this makes me seem old) when you see kids eating half the shop on the way round, then stopping off for an in-store Maccy D's.

anyway, in response to OP post, its not just the checkout displays that are there to entice you to spend - the whole store it laid out to entice you in and look tempting - ever noticed why its the lovely fresh fruit at the front, freezer cabinets just aren't as enticing despite it being shown that frozen veg are just as healthy, if not better than fresh (Iceland of course being the freezer display exception :rotfl:)

By the time you get to the frozen stuff, you've already loaded your trolly with the more expensive fresh items that have prob been picked before ripe, stored in an artificial environment to stop them ripening, 'woken up' to ripen in a warehouse and then transported to store. Doesn't seem quite so fresh when you think if it like that.

CRANKY40

I must be one of the luckiest parents on the planet. My son and heir doesn't like sweets. He'd be more likely to ask for water out of the fridges and the answer is always that there's some in the car so wait 5 minutes. You know what I really dislike seeing anywhere, not just in the supermarket? Little children with family size bags of sweets.

Just thinking...we don't have McDonalds very often either. He's not keen. We tend to save a couple of pounds every week and go for an Italian meal in the school holidays. He's 10. His dad (my late husband) didn't like sweets either. His mum used to buy him a chocolate orange every Christmas. Three guesses who ate that

Bublin1

pickledonionspaceraider wrote: »

Lets face it, kids would want a bag of gravel if it had the latest 'character' on it.

This has to be the quote of the day (or yesterday) :rotfl:

MandM90

My DD never ever asks. But then again she probably knows just like going to McDonalds, or being given a sugary or caffeinated fizzy drink it's NEVER going to happen.

Mean mum here, and proud :cool:

I suspect some of these kids, are only asking because they've been given things from by the tills before and so see it as a possibility. That said I can't say what other people's kids do bother me all that much - I try to either shop online for dried things, or in my local greengrocers, so when I'm in a shop I'm just focused on escaping the hordes