I remember as a kid standing on tip toe, looking into the big old Silvercross prams outside shops to see the little pink bundle inside.There were no babies in the family, I was the youngest so babies fascinated me.Our village had small shops and the prams were just too big to go inside.Does anyone else recall people leaving babies outside shops?
2007-06-12 02:59:41 · 19 answers · asked by CMH 6 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
You are talking about times when people looked out for each other. Even in the towns you would be unlikely to be able to pinch a baby from outside a shop without being chased by an onlooker. Shops weren't so big usually and you could keep an eye on the pram from inside or someone would stay with it for you. Apart from the major towns and cities everyone knew everyone else as people didn't move around so much and more importantly, most mothers did not go out to work so would often meet up at the shops and look out for each other.
2007-06-12 03:17:48 · answer #1 · answered by garfish 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Wow I don't remember anyone ever doing that but I've never lived in the city. Seems strange though, I put my hand on my daughter, while she in her carrier in the buggy if I should have to look away and take my full attention off of her for even a second in the store. And when I was a kid the toy section was every moms best babysitter while she shopped. My times have changed, its a shame.
2007-06-12 03:49:31 · answer #2 · answered by gypsy g 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My earliest memory was sitting in an old Silver Cross pram and a little girl coming up and pinching my face so hard I screamed. i can remember my mum coming out of the shop and shouting at the girl. I have never left any of my kids outside shops for safety reasons. times have definitlely moved on.
2007-06-12 03:09:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-17 00:30:23 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It still happens.
I live in a small market town, and most of the buildings aren't accomadating to wheelchairs and buggies/prams due to being built over a hundred or more years ago.
However, small as our town is, I still don't really agree with it in this current day and age. It's a shame, but it's sadly the world we live in.
When I see a buggy with a child in it left outside a shop, I tend to take on a role of watcher. I'll stand or sit next to the buggy and wait for the parents to come out. I don't critisise them or anything, I just say 'your son/daughter is adorable and I thought I'd lend you a hand and watch him/her for you'. I normally have my own son with me, so i don't get as many dodgy looks as I could get!
usually they're very thankful.
2007-06-12 08:25:11 · answer #5 · answered by laura_popple 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I remember seeing that all the time when I was a kid. Nobody seemed to think anything of it back in those days (The '60's). Other things that used to be common but would get you in trouble today...leaving kids in a car while you went inside, having kids riding loose in the back of a pickup, leaving your kids at home while you are at work.
Most of those things have been banned for safety reasons, but it's so hard to imagine a time where you could feel safe leaving your kid outside like that.
2007-06-12 03:15:29 · answer #6 · answered by J D 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My mum left me outside Woolworths in a pram back in the 1950s.
After she'd finished shopping she went out and forgot about me! It was half an hour later that she remembered and came back, and I and the pram were still there
2007-06-12 03:04:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
This is interesting. There are still places in the world where you can leave a baby alone or let your children ride the bus to town and not worry about them being molested. But the USA is not on of them. It is sad how much we have given up for "progress".
2007-06-12 03:13:13 · answer #8 · answered by Inez K 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am in my fifties, and I grew up in the city (NY) and people left their babies outside in their strollers or carriages sound asleep all the time. It is a wonderful thing to be able to do and now in the world noone trusts anyone at all and such a thing would be a crime although it is really the society that is the criminal.
2007-06-12 03:05:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I remember this - I was born in the early 80's and I remember that well, I did grow u in a small village - but isnt it sad the way the world is now!
2007-06-12 03:05:16 · answer #10 · answered by bunnykinz 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋