Safety of children in grocery carts (The dumbest health/safety Nazi, anti-tobacco study ever)

Pubmed ^ | June 2003 | Harrell WA

[qam1]

Safety of children in grocery carts: adults' personal health and safety habits.

Observations of 246 children and the adults accompanying them were carried out in supermarkets. Of those arriving and leaving by automobile (n = 194), 36% of adults used safety belts, and 51.1% of children used safety belts or restraining seats. While shopping, 79% of adults lost sight of the children in their care at least once, and 73.2% were 10 feet or more from their children at least once. 48% of children climbed or attempted to climb from carts; 27% stood in carts, and 23.6% handled hazardous products. 24% of adults purchased tobacco products. Poor adult supervision of children was related to adult's nonuse of safety belts and the child's and adult's ages. Climbing from the cart was related in a logistic regression to both poor adult supervision and child's age. Tobacco purchases were related to handling of hazards by children and standing in carts. Child's age and adult's safety belt use related to the restraint of children in vehicles.

PMID: 12841465 [PubMed - in process]

[irishtenor]

Cut down a tree, fire it up with napalm, afix bird to a bayonet, roast until feathers are crispy, feed to an ecologist.

[Michael Barnes]

Ah...Rainforrest tree, am I right? heheheh...

[irishtenor]

Preferably one with a eco-nut attached:>)

[Ford Fairlane]

Kids bounce (I always did)

My niece got loose a few days ago, climbed on my old tractor (A Farmall M, the seat is about 5 foot up, dont know how she did it)

She fell off, hollered for 10 seconds, then came running

"(Name witheld) fall off tractor (showing her bloody knee proudly)

(Name witheld) got ouchie

(Name witheld) Tough Chick!!

we go tractor ride??"

[Michael Barnes]

No relation to Ford Prefect are ye?

[weegee]

These eternal adolescents seem to be having more fun...

[Michael Barnes]

Good recipe!

[weegee]

Courts are creating precedent decisions on these matters as we speak.

[xm177e2]

Tobacco purchases were related to handling of hazards by children and standing in carts.

Tobacco purchases are also linked to poverty, aren't they?

[Humidston]

They'll have to pry my cold dead hands off my shopping cart...

[qam1]

Good job to whoever added "Voyeurism" to the keywords.

LOL! What kind of job do these people have, Following people around and watching them in the grocery store.

Maybe the reason all these kids were climbing out of the shopping carts was because they were afraid of the people with clipboards following them all over the store.

[Ford Fairlane]

I think we are distant relations.

I'm a lot bigger, drink more, & I am am much more powerful & way faster. (especially with the ladies)

We had a couple of Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters at the local watering hole when he was in town a few years back.

[Elsie]

How are you supposed to keep a kid in a shopping cart?

You are the adult. They have to obey you.

[donmeaker]

gigantic two seaters:


You mean the SUSC aka Sport Utility Shopping Carts?

[Great Dane]

I don't believe this...... wait a minute, of course I do, the ANTI's seem to be stepping up their battle fronts, wonder where it's all going to take us.

[honeygrl]

I've never used the safety belt in a grocery cart before because I don't leave my kid sitting alone in the cart. AND I am a horrible mommy that lets my toddler stand up in the basket of the cart if he wants to. I always stay right with the cart though. Someone might steal my purse that is also in the cart if I left it alone. :) This is the dumbest study I think I've ever seen. Half the grocery carts in stores don't even have working safety belt to even use if you wanted to. I don't need the safety belt anyhow. If my toddler tries to climb out of the cart he gets spanked. A firm hand to the leg or butt works better than any safety belt in a grocery cart. Next they are going to say that tobacco use is related to beating children in grocery stores.

[honeygrl]

"How are you supposed to keep a kid in a shopping cart? "

A good smack to the butt (or to the leg if they wear diapers) works well. If you don't like to spank in public you could do what my mom does and pinch them instead. No one can see you do that and it works almost as well.

[honeygrl]

"I was just thinking about the GIGANTIC two seater, plastic jobbers that have been showing up in my wal-marts and costco's around my area..."

I've actually tried using one of those as well as the ones shaped like a car that some Krogers have. I am dangerous with those huge carts. I run into displays, people, and pretty much anything else in front of me because i can't see over the end of the cart. It's equivilent to tiny little women driving Suburbans.

[honeygrl]

"LOL! What kind of job do these people have, Following people around and watching them in the grocery store. "

I can't imagine it could actually be considered a legitimate study anyhow if the participants weren't made aware they were being study. Maybe they can sue the people who did the study for studying them without their knowledge. Or maybe for stalking them.

[qam1]

I don't believe this...... wait a minute, of course I do, the ANTI's seem to be stepping up their battle fronts, wonder where it's all going to take us.

Unfortunately I think I have an idea where they are going, The next step in the Anti's playbook is to start taking smokers children away under the guise that second hand smoke is child abuse. To pave the way I am sure they will be putting out ridiculous studies like this one claiming that smokers along with exposing their kids to the "Hazards" of second hand smoke also tend to be terrible parents.