Taking really young children to Matches

My autistic cousin got told "if he doesn't shut up I'll going to smack him one".. Really hard to explain to someone you actually know quite well who's under the influence of a lot of alcohol that actually it's YOUR cousin and he's shouting strange things and copying/repeating things because he's autistic.

Anybody can go, hope they enjoy it. Live and let live mate. Sometimes it’s not to your taste , but hey how.

What's one with youth coming to watch grimsby it's great for the club

Quoted from FrazerGTFC

What's one with youth coming to watch grimsby it's great for the club

What's wrong

I work with adults with learning disabilities and they always have a great time when they go and there is very rarely any problems (I've had one in 4 and a half years and it was a steward not a fan!)

As to kids going I took my lad to his first game at the age of one and a half and he'll be 7 next month, and is still going to matches and even went to cheap side to get some autographs once.

I sit near some proper mardy blokes in their 50/60s who do nothing but moan even when we're winning.

I wish their kids would leave them at home, it's not a bloody retirement home.

Stop being too hard on the OP  . he must be knackered what with that long journey from 1975..............

Have to say I took both of mine when they were 18 months old, purely selfishly because it was that or not go.  More so away games then home games. Both now of the age (10 and 14) where they can choose not to bother but they rarely miss any.

  

Hoping to take my 6yr old grandson to his first match on Saturday. He may not get it but with more visits once he does get the bug it will be in him for life.

I don't want him becoming a armchair Man utd or other prem excrement supporter.

Did the parent(s) pay for the seat? In that case there is no argument is there?

I remember a couple in the Barratt Stand years ago who came to BP with a baby less than a year old, stood there with it in a papoose thingy. Someone would most likely arrest them under H&S nowadays. Odd thing to do but must have been the youngest Town supporter I’ve seen at a game. If it made a row it was inaudible above the din we used to make in those good old days of standing up. Which makes another issue - what happens in an emergency? Do we reckon we could get a toddler out of a stand fire or whatever?

Must admit I do get fed up of people taking their kids to things where they naturally get bored and are a nuisance to other customers who end up paying good money for the privilege of being annoyed and having their experience spoilt. I’m thinking of restaurants, theatres and cinemas and the like. Probably BP does not come into that category ... though it is as quiet as Grimsby Library some days. Then parents make the excuse there’s no-one else to look after them so they have to take them and let the rest of the world be their babyminders. It is easy to condemn on both sides of this but it really isn’t straightforward is it?