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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I think those parent/child parking spaces should be at the back of the lot and not at the front. You aren't disabled. So you don't need to be at the front. Besides, it's your choice to bring your child with you to the store.
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There was a time that due to unforeseeable events, my choices were to run errands with children or to not run errands at all. I certainly could not have afforded to hire a babysitter just so that I would not have to take children with me.
I will continue to be grateful to the stores who decided to reserve parking spaces for people with small children near an entrance. While it may not have been strictly necessary, it was certainly helpful when dealing with children who still needed to be carried.
Carrying small children to the store (to avoid having to juggle a stroller and shopping cart), shopping with them, going back to the car with children and the shopping cart, unloading the shopping cart, returning the shopping cart (with children in tow) and then carrying them back to the car, does make any distance seem significantly longer. Particularly when trying to do all this before said small children get tired of shopping.