Out of interest, how do you manage if this happens?

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Baby in pram, older child refusing to comply with you in a needing to leave sort of scenario (have already given warnings re timings.)

I’m sure there are things you’ve struggled with that I haven’t, though.

I did as I didn’t drive. Plenty of people do if they don’t drive.

Of course, that’s why I clarified long walks. If you drive you’re not going to get out of the car, put a three year old in a pushchair to walk two minutes to a park then back in the pushchair! If you have to walk a fair distance to get there it’s obviously different.

Oooh I had this once (note, only happened once!) with toddler and baby. I took baby out of the pushchair, and wrestled extremely angry toddler in instead. She resisted like mad, but I managed to navigate the flaming limbs and arching back, and strapped her in, and carried her baby sister. Think she was so mortified, she never did it again!

my 3 year old would never get in a buggy- tbh she only used once since turning 2 when we were at stansted at 5am.

A lot of children here seem to be in pushchairs longer than the ones I know (not a criticism, just observation.) Might be because there’s a lot of London based posters?

I carried a sling in the pushchair so on occasion I could put older dc in pushchair and baby in sling. I guess it depends on the pushchair too!

With a bigger age gap it was all about bribery! Promises of getting the glitter out at home or having their nails painted.

Pick them up under one arm, push pram with other arm, leave

This was me too

Surfboard hold and push the buggy with your free hand.

Can you get a buggy board attatchment , works wonders with my 4 year old x amazon

Over the shoulder, grit your teeth and crack on 💪

One memorable time I had a baby in a buggy, toddler on the buggy board, and a tantruming 5 year old over my shoulder a mile from home. It was probably raining too 😂

Bribery never worked for me. Firm grip is my go to

I have variously:

• threatened to leave, and left
• picked up toddler
• picked up baby and put toddler in pushchair
• used The Voice

All sub optimal. In the end it became easier to just not get into situations where tantrumming was going to happen. Not worth my nerves.

On a very memorable (for all the wrong reasons) walk I ended up with DD in a sling on my front, DS(2.5) like a rugby ball under 1 arm and a balance bike hanging off the crook of another elbow. The poor guy who nearly got in my way on our street with my front door in sight nearly leapt into the path of an oncoming car to avoid me!

Just say bye and make a move to leave without them usually works for me if its somewhere like the park or a toddler group.
Alternatively a surfboard hold as PPs have said or threatened with getting the reins put on or grabbed round the wrist and frog marched away.

This. What else do you do?