Why or why not?
If you do: Do they ride in a kid cart (with the car front or special seat), why or why not? Do they have to walk or do they get to ride? Do they help you pick the food? Any embarrassing or funny ever happen while shopping with your kiddos? Where do you shop? Why do you choice that store? Do you coupon? Add more questions/answers if you think they are important!
Any other tips or stories you want to tell are good, too!
I did when they were little. I had them help me, and we practiced addition by adding the (rounded off) prices as we went, and keeping track of the total.
I only ever had one tantrum in the store, and that never happened again after I put everything back and took my daughter home.
When they were older I would shop on my lunch hour on my own.
I do most of my shopping at Winco.
i used to, they are well behaved in the shops anyway but now I go when they are in school, its quicker and I dont get the muuuuuuum can I have.......? question lol
I don't have children, but I've been teaching elementary music for a few years. I only say that so you know I'm not a kid-hating critic or anything like that.
That said, when I WATCH others taking their kids around the grocery stores, I'm mostly just amused. The ones that stand out, though, are:
1) Tantrum kids with harassed parents. I avoid them as much as I can, but not just because no one wants to listen to a tantrum. I also am really afraid that one day I'm going to snap and just go into teacher mode and calmly swoop andwhen you gone solve the kid's problems--- and then have to face the awkward face-to-face with the parent later. Yes, I know what it's like to have a whiny kid (or 30 whiny kids) when you're feeling stressed and exhausted, but it's not that hard to stop.
2) Teaching parents. Giving the kids little jobs to do and explaining about food while they're there. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the rare times I see moms with a little one asking her toddler to help her bag up the bell peppers while having her first grader read the list out loud and explaining about ginger root as she calmly strolls along. Those kids are always well-behaved and not whiny because they have something useful to DO, and their curiosity is being fulfilled.
Now, only when they want to go and that is usually when they want something in particular (teens)
Then, yep. I love having my kids with me all the time :)
When they couldn't walk, a baby seat that would attach or a cart already with a baby seat. As they got older our grocery store had the "kiddie karts" for the kids to push along with me.
They have always helped me pick out the food.
Yes. Why wouldn't I?
She is 4, she walks and hold on to the basket. Sometimes she'll stand on the front and 'ride' the cart. Yes, she throws all kinds of stuff in the basket. Only 5% of it actually makes it to checkout.
She threw a tantrum because I wouldn't buy her a toy once [she was 1, I was 15] and I smacked her behind and told her to stop and I had this older woman come up to me and say that I shouldn't when you gonehit my sister. When I told her that was my daughter she backed up like I was the bubonic plague.
I shop at HEB. It has good prices. Yes.
Not often, we don't do a lot of our own shopping.
When we did have to go to the big store ourselves the kids would just walk with us and help pick the food. Nothing embarrassing or funny happened.
We send our driver to the stores to do the shopping, but it's not all at one place. The produce comes from the market, the meat comes from the meat shop. I'm not one of those people who likes to eat food from a warehouse store just because it's cheap. They're just not good for the local economy.
I always take my kids with me, just because we're always together and it is kind of awkward to shop alone...
Anyway, I have twins so they ride in the twin cart with two seats up front. They get to pick what cereal they want or what snacks, but mostly I just stick to the same stuff we buy every week.
Once, one of my boys was screaming in the store as we were checking out and a woman came up and asked if she could tie his shoes (He'd just untied them trying to get them off). I said yes without thinking, and he kicked her in the nose and it started bleeding! I was so embarrassed...
We usually shop at Kroger because it's about a half-mile from my house. I only use coupons if I get them in the mail, usually not though.
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