AS parents know, it can be very hard work shopping with very small children.

Pushing a child in a trolley full of shopping can be difficult. Walking a small child while carrying shopping is harder.

It makes it easier having car parking spaces allocated to parents and children.

Very often I am unable to use one of these spaces though, as they are being used by cars displaying disabled badges.

Why should it be that disabled drivers are allowed to use parent and children parking spaces and yet we are not allowed to use disabled parking spaces?

If a person is severely disabled then fine, but nine times out of 10 they are not.

C TAYLOR (name and address supplied).