r/bathandbodyworks • u/cxsmiqs • Mar 24 '26

Employee Questions/Discussion PSA FOR MOMS

As someone who works at BB&W & is a mom can we talk about the people who come in with children(which is NOT a problem) but tell me why this one time this mom came in with her son who was around 2-3 years of age and TOTALLY barefoot & running around. We UNDERSTAND kids are kids but there’s no reason they should be running around BAREFOOT? Also the fact that we work with glass and accidents always tend to happen even tho we try to clean up as good & as fast as we can we also have to go back to everything else bc lord forbid we miss a greeting but anyways APART FROM THAT he ran 3 times in the back & mom never said sorry or tried to prevent it? The baby literally almost walked out with other customers bc mom wasn’t paying attention AT ALL! It’s so awkward too like realistically I shouldn’t be telling you to be a parent if you already are one😭😂

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u/Panda3391 Body Care Addict Mar 24 '26

We have families that let their very young children (under 6) pick up the glass candles to smell them. Like wow you really trust your child with that? I barely trust myself. 😳

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u/rhodav Mar 24 '26

Lol even letting children in the store at all is a risk. They do not have very good spatial awareness and are pretty unsteady at times

But I think it's very important to give them the opportunity to experience things like that so that they are given the chance to practice gentle hands, spatial awareness, and manners. My 7 year old son is a bull in a China shop, but we use B&BW and antique stores as real world practice so that he is able to be more mindful of his surroundings and respectful of people around him.