To think that three years old is quite old to be using a buggy?

[Butternutsquash22]

Relative of DP was talking about how her buggy broke, so was going to have to find money for another one, find one she likes etc etc.

But the child in question is three which I would assume is old enough to walk places rather than buying another buggy?! Fair enough using it if it's there but if the buggy breaks she's probably too big for it...

Would you have bought another buggy at that age? She's an only child, with no immediate plans for any others yet.

Butternutsquash may I present you a plate of

And after reading your post I think I need a .

What I want to know from those who don't use a buggy with their 3 year old is:

Do you have a car?

If not - then do tell me how you do the grocery shopping with your 3 year old when it is a 20 minute walk to the grocery store and you need to walk back with the groceries and your 3 year old.

How do you manage the train, bus, tube - again if it is over an hour to get into Central London (if everything is running smoothly, longer if it isn't) and then you walk and walk and walk with your 3 year old but then your 3 year old falls asleep or is tired.

Tell me, please do, what did you do when it snowed? Did you use your car, did you use your buggy - or did you just get your 3 year old to walk with you in the snow. Was it fun if you did that?

What do you do if you have to drop your child off at nursery and need to get to work on time. All while not having a car?

I am I am also VERY fat, entirely due to using the pushchair - was so paranoid about DS being fat and lazy that the only part of the pushchair he is allowed to touch are the handles.

I feel I have failed in my mission now after reading all about your perfect halo's.

You selfish cow Bupcakes. No thought for the old people.

"If not - then do tell me how you do the grocery shopping with your 3 year old when it is a 20 minute walk to the grocery store and you need to walk back with the groceries and your 3 year old."

You silly sausage.

You fashion yourself into a pack horse, with saddle bags of groceries each side, then you make the slow journey home, with your child on your back, occasionally whipping you and you falter in your fatigue.

I can't believe I'm having to tell you this.

Maxybrown - Love it !!!!

I just spluttered into my ! Just as well as it is a tad early to have a glass!

Au contraire, kungfu. DS piggybacks the old people to the daycentre, one-by-one. It takes him until dinnertime but by God, he does it.

Bupcakes, surely if you trained your DS well enough, he could use his arms to fly rather than the balloons? Have you no stamina? Balloons indeed pah!

bupcakes another splutter. The is all over my kitchen now.

How silly of me indeed.

PS Who on earth would start a thread about 3 year olds being in pushchairs? I bet they are all or .

My child doesn't have arms how very judgemental of you!

I don't get the only child insinuation by butternutsquash does she mean that if her friend has another child then she can squash two kiddies in one buggy? My head hurts.

Bupcakes - I commute across London with DS on my back and he does indeed beat me if I am too slow!

Although last night he was too distracted to do so by the weird man who took a dislike to us on the tube and started abusing me for being racist because I wouldn't let him shove me out of the way.

DS dragged himself up over my shoulder, stared at the man and farted and blew a lengthy, contemptuous raspberry.

This went down well obviously!

popcrackle, less of the wine then eh? It's not even lunchtime yet. I hope you don;t operate your buggy whilst on the old vino, maybe that's why it takes you so long to get across London

apologies bupcakes, it is my extreme lazyness and lack of brain function that makes me so judgemental.

I find I can go faster when drunk Maxy.....

that's just your weird imagination, don't be fooled.

Anyway, shhh, don't tell gardening

No, no, definitely faster when drunk. Have you never had an urge to see how fast you can make your legs go after a few glasses of wine?

I find I can go even faster if I've had a wrap of whizz before I go out. The human huskies really get going then...

The only time I have been out to a proper party completely on my own since I had DS (ie not with DP) I remember thinking that I could run really fast and sprinting madly down an alleyway with arms and legs pumping away. I was convinced that I was an undiscovered Olympic potential....

Oh kungfu that is hilarious

Yes, I suspect it probably was..to everyone else who saw me

Popcrackle what I mEant by that was there is no other little one on the way to justify buying another brand new buggy... Why would she be putting two kids in one!?

Oh and about the snow, this particular lady was housebound all the way through that, because the buggy didn't work on the snow. When she needed to get shopping in she took her dd out without the buggy, so not sure why that point is relevant...

I can't belive no one has commented on my neglect of my dog hmph

Butternutsquash I think the nut in your name is there for a reason.

I'm joking.

So she doesn't have a car or does she?

I suggest you tell her about rage buggies, she might like the look of this