At 2 years 3 months

[greeentopmilk]

How much would you expect them to be walking or using a stroller?

It varies so much between one child and the next. My two D's both walked at 9mths, and so did my dgs, but I think that's a bit unusual. My dneice was 17 months.

It varies depending on the child.

It entirely depends on the child

Walking if not in a rush or have shopping to carry home. Stroller for nursery runs and city centre shopping trips.
Woodland walks - no stroller.

For my dd, still in it all the time at that age, but she is hypermobile, so tired quickly.

Also it depends on how you usually get around and how much you have to fit into your day/how quickly you need to travel. We walk everywhere, as we live in London, and often I wouldn’t have the time to walk at toddler pace. I would only have fitted in half the activities/tasks I needed to. Once she was competent to ride her scooter, she was mostly on that, unless we were going to be walking a long way and she would need the buggy to rest in for part of it. It’s not unusual for us to walk several miles a day quite routinely.

If you live somewhere where you mostly drive, you will probably be able to get your DC out the buggy and walking more often, at an earlier age, as they will only need to cover much shorter distances.

My daughter is two years one month. I try to encourage her to walk by not bringing the buggy on the nursery walk, ten mins each way. She’ll do that fine but depends on her mood, sometimes she doesn’t want to be carried, sometimes she does. I’m trying to be relaxed about it and do a hit of ‘ill Carry you to that tree and then you walk’ which works. On longer trips rushing around school run type stuff she’s in the buggy as when walking she might decide she wants to go the other way and then strop.

How long is a piece of string! It depends how far you walk doesn't it. If you are very active and do lots of journeys on foot then I would expect them to use it more than a toddler that does most journeys in a car and just the odd 5/10 mins on foot occasionally.

Depends on the child and your lifestyle I guess.
My older two completely ditched the pushchair way before 2, but I was a SAHM so had more time than others to get places, they were close in age so it was often easier to have them both walking, and I had a car for longer journeys. I suspect DS (currently 10 months) will be in his for longer as we do 4 miles each day for the school run.

DS is 2 yrs 5 months.
Runs everywhere.
Exhausting. He's been doing it for a while.

They're all different. They all develop at different times.

OH's cousin had a DD about a year after we had DS. She skipped crawling and went straight to walking. She just bum shuffled everywhere in the interim 😂

It depends. DD2 was nearly 2 before she could walk at all, a lot of other kids had been walking for a year by that age. It also depends on how far you are going and how quickly you need to get there. When DD1 was that age, we often had time to walk at her very slow pace, stop and look at every stick/ ant/ bit of nothing she wanted to stop and look at, meander about etc, but with DD2 we were usually walking to take DD1 to school or collect and we had to get there quickly so she had to go in the pushchair (and usually walk home because there wasn't a time limit on getting home again). I also don't drive, so would sometimes be walking a long way with them so it wasn't reasonable to expect them to walk that far.

If you don't have a car, definitely look into getting a double!

Thanks guys. Just trying to gauge what people generally do day to day

Obviously I know all kids and lifestyles are different.

My son is that age and relies heavily on his stroller but will get in and out and have little walks. Just wondered how much others are walking at his age.

Greeentopmilk - that sounds absolutely fine and exactly what loads kids his age (and older) do.

DD1 was rarely in pushchair after 2yo- but sometimes used the buggy board. Climbed Snowden at 3yo.

DD2 used pushchair a lot longer... I had to get her sister to school by 7.30, so used to pick her straight out of bed into the pushchair for the 2mule round trip. By the time she started preschool at 3 she managed to make the journey under her own steam most of the time.

Ds1 had to walk. I had SPD and was on crutches so couldn't push a buggy or even use reins. We didn't get very far

I managed DS1 and a new baby by alternating them in and out of buggies/ slings and having a seat for DS1 on the main pram. DS1 was not ready to be pram-free at 2, and as soon as I could push a pram again, I did.

Both were 4 when I stopped using prams completely and could walk purposefully at a sensible, functional pace. Until then they hopped in and out as needed.

DD turned 2 last month. I use the buggy for either longer journeys (1 mile walk to school etc) or if I want her contained. She’s pretty capable at walking, just wants to stop and look at every little thing or throw herself in the road so it’s not really practical if we’re trying to get somewhere in time or if there’s traffic or crowds.

She has a trike which we use when we walk to the playground and DS is on his bike. She can pedal it like a bike but I can also push it along and steer it. Country walks she will walk and probably get carried by DH at some point near the end