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Tsk, I forgot, this also happened last night but I'll make a new thread instead of editing my old one.
Now, we have a section of summer toys and we have a section of balls for kids to play with. As I'm ringing out a customer, I see this giant red ball go FLYING and land in front of the aisle with summer toys. The culprit is a little boy that I know. Said boy is about 3 years old, so I don't fault him for being a bit messy, as kids usually are. I do fault his mother, though.
So the boy picks up the red ball and then sees the racks of toys we have. Within 5 seconds he has five toys scattered around him and is quite happily playing with them. His mother is off at the pharmacy, oblivious to everything. She sees her son, scolds him and....
Wait for it...
that's it. She just scolds him. Does she tell him to pick up the toys? Does she help him? Nope. She leaves everything there and then wanders off to look at pain relievers. This aisle is a high traffic aisle and there are loads of people wandering around. Toys on the floor is a trip hazard. Does mother realize this? Oh no.
Two minutes later, I catch the boy playing in between the carts we have, crawling in them and trying to stick his hands in the wheels. Where is mother? WAAAAAY off in the back of the store, looking at pain relievers. Boy grabs out more toys and plays with those, and mother is still nowhere in sight.
It's only when she sees a man with a cane walking down the aisle that she finally goes to pick up the toys. But of course, she leaves behind the giant red ball and one smaller baseball for people to trip over. A coworker went and put them away at last.
How hard is it to keep your child by your side and to teach him to pick up after himself? I mean, how?
Now, we have a section of summer toys and we have a section of balls for kids to play with. As I'm ringing out a customer, I see this giant red ball go FLYING and land in front of the aisle with summer toys. The culprit is a little boy that I know. Said boy is about 3 years old, so I don't fault him for being a bit messy, as kids usually are. I do fault his mother, though.
So the boy picks up the red ball and then sees the racks of toys we have. Within 5 seconds he has five toys scattered around him and is quite happily playing with them. His mother is off at the pharmacy, oblivious to everything. She sees her son, scolds him and....
Wait for it...
that's it. She just scolds him. Does she tell him to pick up the toys? Does she help him? Nope. She leaves everything there and then wanders off to look at pain relievers. This aisle is a high traffic aisle and there are loads of people wandering around. Toys on the floor is a trip hazard. Does mother realize this? Oh no.
Two minutes later, I catch the boy playing in between the carts we have, crawling in them and trying to stick his hands in the wheels. Where is mother? WAAAAAY off in the back of the store, looking at pain relievers. Boy grabs out more toys and plays with those, and mother is still nowhere in sight.
It's only when she sees a man with a cane walking down the aisle that she finally goes to pick up the toys. But of course, she leaves behind the giant red ball and one smaller baseball for people to trip over. A coworker went and put them away at last.
How hard is it to keep your child by your side and to teach him to pick up after himself? I mean, how?
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