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Parent asked me to stop using the buggy

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Doonhamer · 26/05/2011 07:50

They want the 19month old child to "learn to walk longer distances so that we don't have to take a buggy out with s when we go shopping, plus we think that being in the buggy is hindering his development"

The only time he's in the buggy is if we wlak to school - a 3 mile round trip, partly along a quite busy road.
If we take a walk to the village shop or post office because he grabs sweeties and food and has tantrums if he walks to shopa dn I then try to get him out, he does this thing with his arms where he lifts them up so it's difficult to pick him up.
He sleeps in it sometimes too as he won't go in cot upstairs

So, IMO the safety of the child is paramount.
The parents say i need to "abide by their wishes in the way their child is brought up"
Anyone got any suggestions as to how I can approach this with parents

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Northernlurker · 26/05/2011 08:05

Ask them to come with you on a school run so they can see how it goes. Then they can carry the child when he flakes out.
They sound a bit dim tbh - is this their first dc?

Reality · 26/05/2011 08:04

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LaurieFairyCake · 26/05/2011 08:02

How far is the shop? Would he walk it on his own?

If he could and would I would say "when we walk to the village shop I won't take the buggy but I have to when going to school as it's 3 miles".

Don't get sucked into justifying your point of view,you don't need to. He's very little to be walking much more than a hundred yards.

TheOriginalFAB · 26/05/2011 08:02

19 months seems young to me to be out of a buggy.

Tell them the reasons why you feel he is safer still in the buggy and see what they say.

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