What would you say...

[deepbreath]

...to a group of school children aged 5 to 6 that have just pointed, laughed and generally taken the pss because they've seen my 4 y.o. dd being strapped into her Maclaren Major buggy?

"You're too big to go in there", "that's a baby's buggy" and so on

I took a deep breath (hence my mn name) and gave a general broadcast to the group. "(Dd's name) has to use this because she's got a poorly heart and poorly legs."

A bit rubbish really, and I could hear them laughing as they were led away. Dd went very quiet.

I am a bit miffed that they had an adult with them that said nothing... they were being collected to go to an after school club at a local nursery.

I don't want dd having the pss taken out of her for this at breaktime tomorrow... she has just started in reception

[dustystar]

Poor dd

I think the best thing is to have a chat with the teacher and hopefully she'll be able to do some circle time work with them.

[Troutpout]

Aww ..bet that was hard
yes...i would do as dusty says. I would definitely go in and mention it.

[saggarmakersbottomknocker]

Poor dd I'd go in and have a word with the staff. As dusty says they could do circle time about differences.

deepbreath - do you ever post on the Heartline message board Here? If not it would be nice to see you over there.

[deepbreath]

Thank you for your replies, they've really helped. I don't think I've seen that board before, SMBK. Thanks

We've had the odd comment from adults about the buggy before. We were given the choice of this or a wheelchair, and I opted for this because dd can walk a bit before she conks out.

I found this trickier to handle because there was about 6 children that were too young for me to say "you're being out of order, don't laugh".

Dd can be a bit volatile at times, so I am also worried that she'll swing for someone if they tease her. Bet she'll be the one that gets told off

[bullet123]

The children were too young to know better, it should have been up to the adult with them to back you up.

[theheadgirl]

I agree, the adult was remiss in not correcting the children.
Let me just tell you this one though - I was on the tram with DD3 who was in her major buggy (she very obviously has down syndrome and I use it cos sometimes she just won't walk and now at 7 is too big for me to carry), when some fuckwit woman says to me "isn't she a bit big to be in a pram?" I sighed, explained why I was using it, and she was then mortified. What business of her was it anyway, even if DD3 was NT?
There. Got that one of my chest

[gess]

Oh poor dd. Lets hope the adult explained to them afterwards that they were out of order