Is there a certain age when you stopped using strollers?

[Parker1970]

How could you tell when it was OK, and you no longer need it your Childs stroller?

My big girl is 4 and we barely use it anymore - but keep it for bit days out (theme parks or if we were in central London or something like that- for tired legs. It’s been useful on holiday too! Il probably just hold onto it in the shed another while for holidays and stuff

Both my children stopped using it around 2 years old, we still have the bloody thing in the loft and it hasn't been used in almost 2 years.

I stopped using the stroller for my children when they turned three years old. I had it on standby if it was needed.

Both of our children were not using it at all by 3 but I think had mostly stopped by 2.5.

Not you again!
Stop using strollers when child can walk the required distance happily in the time required.
I used once a week when very nearly 5 to get from a music session to primary pick up at v fast walk.

The last time I used ours with our son was a week before his second birthday. It hasn’t been used since! He didn’t really like using it before then tbh but we still needed it on big days out. With that being said, we don’t need to walk ‘with purpose’ very often. Of course we walk around town, country walks, the park etc but we live miles from anywhere so drive most of the time.

Mine stopped using it as a regular thing at around 2ish.
We used it for the odd day after that to get to nursery if it was a particularly wet morning and we were running late for me getting to work after drop-off (I am unable to drive for medical reasons so DS walks everywhere with me usually. 25/30 min walk to nursery usually). But that was far more for my convenience rather than out of necessity!

Got rid of it completely about 3.

I did just buy a cheap one from FB Marketplace for a recent theme park holiday (DS is now 4) and it was so so handy for keeping him with us while it was particularly busy, and for letting him have a rest on the long days. Resold it as soon as we got home.

It depends how much walking you do. If you walk a lot then it's likely to be needed longer than if you mainly travel by car.

Left on holiday as they turned 3 never to been seen again! Thank god! They have legs!

My youngest stopped using it before he turned 2. We kept it for a long time but was never used. My eldest was closer to 3

I didn't really use one much - used a carrier, and my kids were early walkers who disliked being buckled in - they just went on my shoulders when they were little and got tired of walking normally

But we did have one for travelling, or that we used if we knew it would be a long walk/day (eg. walking to/around the village fair) - and we stopped using that when it broke (they used to both pile in it together, so we did abuse it), DS1 would have been 4 and DS2 1.

Stopped using ours around 2. But we’re quite rural and were rarely walking across town or whatever. We did however have a wagon for things like beach trips, longer walks, days out etc. which functioned like a pushchair and way of carrying bits and bobs. Biggest was jumping in that occasionally until he was at least 5. We also had slings which got regular use until eldest was at least 4.5 and smallest was 2.5. Youngest has always been more keen to walk than her brother!

It really does depend on the distance you need to travel, the time constraints and whether they have siblings. For instance my 4 year old is capable of walking to drop my daughter off at school and then over to their pre school but if he’s messing about being stubborn and taking forever, I can’t be late so he goes in the buggy. Plus he’ll do that walking back and forth 3 times a day so he might be more tired by the last time and go in the buggy.
honestly I don’t think you should care what other people thing of your buggy use, it’s just a tool to get a job done and everyone has different circumstances. Just live your life and prob around school age they won’t want to use a buggy and have longer legs to keep up and get where you need to be on time 🤷🏻‍♀️

Surely it depends on how much you walk? We walk pretty much everywhere so our 4 year old still uses it sometimes. She can walk quite a distance but when we walk to most things in the day it adds up to quite a lot of mileage and she understandably gets tired. If we drove everywhere we’d probably have got rid of it a year ago.

I had it prise DS out of it around 3 as he’d want it even for short distances. Once he realised he liked walking I kept it for big days out but after 3.5 we never used it.

Just shy of 4th bday. We walked quite a lot to be fair and he mostly got out and walked anyway, he was getting to tall for the blasted thing, the hood was scraping his head!

If you don't like the pram, find alternate wheels that work better. We use a ride-on scooter with a parent handle and have from about 20 months. She loves it, it makes it easier for her to switch between riding and walking and it takes up so much less space.

It depends how far and how fast you need to walk. How much you need to carry, whether it's hot, heavy rain, you're ill, they're ill, etc.
4.6yrs here.

I didn’t have a car when Dc were small and we had to use a lot of public transport.
Once Dc was a bit heavier, it was a nightmare trying to get up and down steps or escalators with no lift. Or wait for ages for the lift to come, and then everyone pushes in front of you.
So Dc1 was a bit over two and a half, Dc2 even earlier, about 22 months, and it was a relief to be free and just take the stairs!

I was a stay at home parent and just factored in the time it takes to walk at the slowest person’s pace.
They were used to walking everywhere and were good at it - if anything they complain more now, as teens.

My eldest stopped regularly going in the buggy at about 18 months but we live 3 miles from the nearest village so drive everywhere. She regularly goes in a trolly at the supermarket but that's for containment to be honest and I've still got her buggy for big days out etc at 3. My son is 9 months and on 2 occasions since his birth she's gone in his buggy. On both occasions she was fast asleep in the car and I needed to be somewhere. She's a fiend if I wake her from a nap so it was easier to transfer her and let her sleep and carry my son than wake her. Definitely depends on circumstances.