Yep, please add me to the petition, I get seriously wound up by lazy drivers who use "our" spaces.

My local Morrissons is where I see the most offenders, closely followed by Tesco and at both places there are security/trolley attendant types who don't say or do anything

It's about time supermarkets put a stop to this we have a disabled badge for our son but we often can get no disabled bay because it is full of cars with no badges where you get a bunch of youngsters coming out with their beer.
Often we cannot get a parent and child space either as these are taken up by people with no children with them.
My father in law spoke to an asda car parking attendant who said he knew of people who had bought or borrowed car seats just so they can use parent and child spaces.

We get fined if we park where we shouldn't by traffic wardens so surely it's makes sense for supermarket car parks too.

About time! I'm sick and tired of not being able to get in a mother and bay space at my local Tesco cos people can't be arsed to walk a bit further. I wouldn't care if the mother and baby spaces were the furthest away. What people don't seem to realise is that these parking spaces give extra room on each side of your vehicle to be able to get your child in and out of their car seat, it has nothing to do with being nearer the store!
I took a trip to Tesco's a couple of days ago and couldn't get a M&B space (Again) so parked at the far end where there were free spaces on either side of me. When I came out, some prat had parked so near to me I could'n get Lo in, (despite the fact I have baby on board stickers and sun shades all over the car and car seat base on the back seat) and had to decide whether to leave her outside the car while I moved it or force the car door open to get her in. I wasn't prepared to leave her outside so I'm afraid the car next door might have a bit of a new dint in it!

we are eally lucky that our local tesco has around 30 p & c spaces and we can pretty much always find a space but it does pee me off when people park in then especially when the obviously dont have a child. my lo is in a pavlic harness so if we dont get a p&c space we cant get him in and out of the car. when i was (very heavily) preganant i was tryiong to get in the car some idiot parked so close i couldnt even vaguely get in. i turned round and just gave em an 'are you kidding me look' and they reversed out of the space for me

its a great idea to fine drivers who park in the kiddie spaces to try and stop them but most take no notice of the signs and park in them anyway unless the supermarkets reinforce the signs people with small children and babys will still have to find other spaces futher away.

Oh I agree, I agree! In fact, I was so cross the other week that I left 2 notes on people's windscreens telling them in no uncertain terms what I thought of their parking antics! I was penned in to a parent and child space by one idiot without a child and the regular space on the other side where someone had parked so close and so badly I couldn't get in (being 8 months pregnant) or get my toddler in. In the end I had to climb in the front with him across my bump and 'post' him backwards into his seat. This made him upset, which in turn made me absolutely furious! It's probably better that I did leave notes instead of bumping into the drivers at this stage.... I think that pregnant women should be able to have a pass to park in mother/child/disabled spaces from a certain amount of weeks too, as it's nigh-on impossible to do your shopping sometimes. I know how old people feel now when they have to go shopping for a little bit each day! Grr!:x:x

I think that badges should be issued to people with young children, and that if a badge is not displayed when someone parks in a parent and child space then they should be treated exactly the same as if they had parked in a disabled space without a badge. I also think that more parent and child spaces should be required to be provided- obviously disabled people need and are entitled to enough spaces, but often all the parent and child spaces are full (I've seen this happen when each care parked has actually had a child seat in) and very few of the disabled ones are. Such a large percentage of the population has young children that it is ridiculous there isn't more provision for them.

this makes me so angry!...so many times have i been driving around waiting for a space only to watch the car in front park in the parent spots! And there are never enough! i think the supermarkets that claim to be parent and child friendly should reinforce their parking rules, perhaps allow spaces for badge holders or something...people park in the spaces as really what is there to stop them!? at my local supermarkets there is nothing and it really winds me up!

I to have had many a stressfull time at supermarket car parks thanks to inconsiderate people! And the shops seem to shrug off any responsibility for it! I'm in the final weeks of my second pregnancy and I'm suffering from very bad SPD,so now I do all of my shopping online! Prior to doing so I experienced the same as everyone else,but mainly it was elderly people who used the p&c spaces.Little old ladies who obviously thought they had more right to park there than people with young children! When I approached one of these "old dears" about the subject she smiled,turned and walked away much to my annoyance! I'm sure if we were to park in a disabled space we would be hung, drawn and quartered,so why shouldn't the same rules apply to p&c parking??

It is a nightmare trying to park with small babies, car seats are big and heavy, when you have just given birth, walking like john wayne and trying to carry a car seat across a car park because some idiot has parking in the parent space is not easy! my husband has watched single and childless people park in the spaces and parks behind them blocking them in and argues with them later! there should be definitly be parent badges and the spaces should be monitored and fined if people park in there with no children. When i'm on my own i never ever park in the spaces, and now i never bother trying with my baby son as i know there is no chance of a space been there.

I received a £60 parking ticket last week for deliberately parking over boundary in a carpark in order to gain access to the rear doors and my 8 month old's carseat. This particular carpark provides plenty of disabled spaces which obviously, I am not entitled to use but no parent spaces at all.

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/parent-and-child-parking.html

i think its terrible people think its ok to park in mother and toddler spaces!!!! Some people just dont care.

I find it annoying that you can not get a parent & baby space as lazy people just take the first space they see and they don't have any children with them. Or they park in the space and the passenger goes into the shop and the driver stays in the car. I found people looking at me with a look like I did not have any special needs to park in these spaces but I had a new born baby and a partner who was in a wheelchair we did not have a blue badge so was not allowed to park in diabled parking. There seems to be alot of disabled but not alot of parent and baby. I have just got a parking permit from Tesco's parent and baby club when I signed up to them. Bet that does not allow me to get a space easier than before.:\?

I've ranted about this so many times. I've even confronted a few people when they've caught me on a bad day. Lets all hope that all other places follow Asdas lead and do something about it.

The same people who are fighting over the parent and child spaces also fight over the disabled spaces. The only card I have access to is my mums, who has a blue badge. The number of times we have had to park in a normal space and try and get Tarran's car seat out of the car, aswell as her struggling to get out of the car. Not to mention the fact that I struggle if I can't open the door wide because I also have a disability. I was in Sainbury the other day, feeding Tarran in the car and we were in a disabled space. The number of people who parked in the parent and child spaces opposite without having children was an absolute joke. And would you believe that the majority of them were actually of the older generations? One old couple actually did have a car seat in the back of their car, but if they had a child with them, they left it behind while they did their shopping because they didn't take their child out. And yet, when we parked the car, the 4x4 parked next to us, in a disabled space, without displaying a blue badge was a couple with 3 kids. I asked them why they were parked there and the response I got was 'there was no parent and child spaces'. I tried to politely tell them that those parent and child spaces are there for parents with YOUNG children, ie babies and toddlers, not those in senior school. I called them lazy so-and-so's and returned to feeding Tarran.

The sheer inconsideration of people in this country really does never cease to amaze me.

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I feel that shopping areas do need to become more child friendly, the places that do provide mother and baby spaces you often find that they are misused!!
Its against the law to park in a disabled space more action needs to be taken against people parking in mother and baby spaces!

i totally agree, the ammount of people that park in parent & child spaces that dont actuly need them!!!!! could you imagine if mums& dads used disabled spaces??? (obiously that is no attack on peopl that need them)
my local asda now has signs that says the spaces are for parents with children 12 & under only with fines for missuse. which is a good step but the signs are small & i have seen people wrongly park read the sign & carry on!

Sign me up!

I think that we should have badges to display just like disbled people do and there should definately be more of them!

sign me up too, i think its ridiculous that they're supposedly intelligent adults out there who still can't seem to grasp the fact that a parent1child parkling space is for a parent with a child, its not a difficult concept quite simple really. GRRR

modyfied to add that the local asda has some p&c spaces right by the entrance unforunately this is also where the cash points are so u very often get ppl pull up into the spaces (some times btween all of them so no one can move anywhere and blocking all spaces) whilst they jump out to use the ATMs. the ignorance of some ppl is astounding!

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[Modified by: siany on October 14, 2008 01:53 PM]

i'm a disabled driver with a blue parking badge and a mum to be and i hardly ever get to park in a disabled bay because there are people using thoses bays who ARNT disabled but have babies with them because there is no mother and baby bays. and then they dont even have a mother and baby parking permit anyway (tescos). it works both ways.

but i will sign the petition because it anoys me when normal abled bodied without children park in mother and baby bays too. but dont forget the disabled are entitled to park in thoses bays if all the disabled bays are taken!