Although I've seen a mother with her young son at the make-up counter before and she was asking him to help choose her make-up, I saw something totally unexpected today.
In a different Department store, in the girls'/womens' department, I saw from a short distance a woman and a boy of about 12, who I assume were mother and son.
She held several skirts up to him and in a short tempered voice said 'Well we'll go home now if you don't behave'. They then went.