Nothing causes road rage quite like the fury sparked over parking spaces – and especially when it comes to some drivers thinking they are more entitled to a prime spot than others.

And while the elderly and disabled, of course, need easy access and perhaps larger bays in which to manoeuvre in and out of, it is seldom them who put other motorists' backs up. That role is nearly always fulfilled by baby-on-board sticker toting modern parents.

Drivers who take parking entitlement to a whole new level once they are in the baby-makes-three category.

One mother is calling on her MP to support her campaign to introduce disabled-badge style parking permits for parents and Daily Mail writer Kelly Rose Bradford think this is a bad idea

I've long since been infuriated by the prominence given to parent and baby parking in my own local supermarket – purely on the basis you can spend forever cruising for a 'normal' space as seemingly half the car park is taken up by over-sized bays daubed with a buggy sign.

However, my rage has now been taken to a whole new level after learning that one mum is calling on her MP to support her campaign to introduce disabled-badge style parking permits for parents with kids up to the age of five.

Yes, really. There is a mother who is so blinkered by self-importance and assured of her 'right' to park her vehicle as close to the shops as possible and in a space big enough to turn a tank, that she believes having a child in your car is akin to being a disabled motorist.

The mum in question, Aisling Surguy, from Buckinghamshire, is using a petition website, GoPetition, to ask her local Conservative MP David Lidington to raise the issue in the Commons. She has listed the petition in the 'Children's Rights' category of the site, and asks that her request be 'taken seriously'.

She claims that 'when a baby is born, you should send their birth certificate off and receive a permit that expires when the child is five years old, to be able to park in a baby parking space, just like a disabled badge'.

Kelly says that a call for a blue badge parking for kids is distasteful. Above: Kelly with her son William

Ms Surguy goes on say that 'currently anyone and everyone seems to be parking in these spaces and very few are monitored'.

It is, she says 'extremely hard for parents with small children to often get in and out of normal parking spaces, and it's frustrating when people use the baby spaces when they have no children on board'.

One would wonder, of course, what kind of metamorphosis these parents' vehicles have undergone since their children arrived on the scene.

Presumably they coped before they had kids – hauling bags of shopping in and out and heaving suitcases in to the boot and across the back seats while still managing to open and close the doors and reverse out of the space.

Let's be honest here about what this is about – it is, quite simply, the selfish belief that everything has to work around making life easier for you once you become a parent.

Yet always cunningly delivered under the guise of what's best for your baby.

And when you've got a newborn or toddler of course it is easier to park right next to the shop, and to be able to cruise into an enormous space rather than doing a tricky reverse park into a tight bay.

But none of us are entitled to preferential treatment just to make things more convenient.

It's been a few years since I have been the vexed parent running across a wet car park with a baby buggy and a dozen bags of shopping and silently cursing the fact I could not park nearer.

Or since I've been the mum who has sworn under her breath at a boy racer taking up two mother and baby spaces, leaving me to park in a 'normal' bay a whole one-minute walk from the store entrance.

And I am certain there was a time that I glared at fellow shoppers who to my mind had not quite left me enough room to get the baby seat out of the car in one swift move rather than a serious of twists and turns.

But my overwhelming memory of parent parking bays is that they were always full and it was far easier to rein in any rage about who might be illicitly using them and just park in a normal space in a quiet part of the car park.

Because at the end of the day, I had given birth, not lost the use of my legs or suddenly been rendered incapable of negotiating both a pram and a bag of shopping across a short distance. And frankly, the same goes for most parents.

When I hear of elderly friends and relatives who struggle with mobility but aren't quite disabled enough to be granted a blue badge or be allowed to use priority parking bays in shopping centres or council-run car parks, mums like Aisling Surguy and their ridiculous child-based demands really make me see red.

And while we can do little stop people's overbearing sense of entitlement, when they are making such an insulting demand to support a lifestyle choice we simply must call them out on it.