To wish parents wouldn't let their toddlers push their own buggy on a 3ft wide pavement in the middle of the school-run 'rush hour'?

[notnowbernard]

Probably IABU

But it does irritate me

I am all for letting toddlers and pre-schoolers walk as much as they want

But do they HAVE to do this at 8.50am when everyone is in a mental rush to get to school?

Yanbu
if my four yr old decides to walk I always let faster people behind pass by

The toddler in question this morning couldn't have been more than 18m!

You can immagine the tailback...

YANBU... it's probably the same ones that let little kids push trolleys through busy supermarkets. Watch your ankles!

I'd have said 'excuse me I'm in a hurry'

Its damn irritating. I thought thats what parks and other outdoor spaces were for, not sodding pavements.

We have building works at dcs school and all 480 pupils plus accompanying adult(s) are expected to walk in/out through one gate and through a 4 ft gap. Can you imagine the crowd at 9 am but still you find 5 yo and younger pushing siblings in buggies while mummy stops for a chat. Words fail me, well words I could type anyway!!

I think you are being a bit of a misery guts tbh. You can always say "excuse me" to get by if you are in a rush

If I said "excuse me" in order to get by I would have to navigate my own pram off the kerb and onto the main road in order to overtake (and usher the dds along in the process)

If the child likes to walk (and that's great) let him push the buggy once you're out of the school traffic

It's 8.50am FGS

I hate to say it notnowbernard but I think YABU.

As the owner of a two year old sometimes in the morning I will only be able to offer you saying excuse me to get past my toddler who's hogging the pavement in what can only be described as an irritating, selfish way or stepping over said toddler whilst she screams blue murder and flails her limbs in anger either hurting you and your children more than you'd think a toddler is able (something like that punching wall on Total Wipeout)or running the risk that you tread on her which (believe me) would not make the tantrum better.

That said, on the way to school, I try really hard (though mostly for my own sake) to tether my very small employer in her buggy at the outset thus avoiding people having to post in AIBU.

Really?

Would people REALLY prefer to hold up scores of people who NEED to be somewhere on time (school!) just to avoid a toddler tantrum?

I speak as a parent of dd2 who was a major meltdown-er in her time, btw

And as thread title says, the long pavement on approach to school is only about 3ft wide

no YANBU

put your toddlers IN the buggy! what's wrong with these people? yes the toddler might not like it but you know what, they are toddlers, that's life.

Leave earlier so you don't get so irate

i would have said to the mother btw (nicely). was she in her own little world or something? did she really have NO clue of the hold up?

Leave earlier?!

Christ, I am doing well to get there in the nick of time as it is!

Not furious about this, btw - just a bit huffy

I think that if my best efforts had failed then I would get physical and man handle DD into push chair.

i.e. I wouldn't let anybody be late to school as a consequence of my DD's tantrum, but delayed a minute or two whilst I did my best to convince her, yes.

(That is assuming there was a minute or two to be had).

She must have known

YANBU

Nothing more irritating than smug mummies letting toddler walk at own pace in a crowd. Or as OP says letting them push their buggy or toy buggy.

And agree that it's the same people who allow their children to push the supermarket trolley.

Yep! It does sound as if this mother must have known.

You seem like a good egg from your posts, I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt YANBU.

To be clear: this was the child's buggy that she is pushed in, not a toy one

Ta very much, *EasyWriter^

OH! No fair gramercy I would never let my DC's push the shopping trolley.

I hate shopping ergo it gets done in the minimum time, preferably sans children, but if the are there it's under strict orders of strapped in if possible and if too old, no playing, no asking for stuff, no suggestion as to what they'd like for dinner, no climbing on or pushing the trolley, no chocolate and no fun!!

I mean business!!

Online grocery shopping is the ONLY way to go, IMO

I cannot bear going shopping with the DC (dd1 is ok but dd2...)

this drives me crackers,indulgent mums smiling inanely whilst their little ones pootle along.

the thing is these "indulgent" (good word) mums are the same ones whose older children are nightmares in class... we have a few....

dd2 is toddling and i dont even let her out of buggy till drop off.