to think that at 22 months DS isn't too big for a pushchair

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Had a gentleman tell me today that we was - we were going into a shop as he was coming out. How ridic. We had just been to the park for a nice run and play and DS was in his buggy as there are lots of cars on the walk home, and I'm just too preg to run after atm. What age do people stop using them altogether? I had not thought it would be for a long time.......

DS is nearly two and still frequently uses his. He's ok at walking, but always wants to do it in the opposite direction to where I want to go,or stop for 10 minutes to look at ants/leaves/rubbish etc, so it isn't practical to do without it if I want to get anywhere!
If anyone criticised me for doing it they would get the death stare.Although i think perhaps the man was making conversation, trying to say what a big boy he was?

Mine is 25 months & still uses his buggy a lot. Both my older 2 used theirs a lot till about age 3.

DD was probably about 2 and a half when I stopped routinely putting her in the pushchair because she wanted to walk instead, but just recently at age 4 she is asking to go in DS's pushchair when she is tired from a long walk! I have let her a couple of times and would not expect anyone to comment on it! It really is none of their business. 22 months is definitely not too old!

22 months is still very young- if I hadn't used a pushchair, without a car we have had to stay in. there is no way a 22month baby can walk the same distance as an adult- to town and back would have been 5 miles alone, without counting the distance walked around the shops- ignore!

SHould have told him politely to keep his nose out - some woman expressed a concern at the sun on DD's face (in the winter) a while ago - I had words . My dd is nearly 2.5 years old and pretty much always is in the buggy if we're out and about - I let her out (!) if we have time to "amble" and she is always in there if we have her older brother too as they wind each other up and I can't watch them both safely. DS was 2.5 years when DD arrived and I had a phil and teds so he could hop on the front and 9/10 he would opt to do that or a buggy board - even now, he's nearly 5 and he will ask to hop in the back section of the P&T's where I still have the seat to put all the crap you have to haul to and from school !! I usually tell him no as I don't want to have to lug him around too and his legs work fine but if he's really knackered i occasionally give in

DD2 loved walking from a young age however she had intermittent problems with her legs when she couldn't walk and I would use DS's buggy who was 14 months older and was in a buggy for his own safety until he was at school.

Ignore him.

I used a pushchair with my DD until she was FOUR! It suited me and DD at the time (for various reasons) and tough luck if anyone else didn't like it.

It all depends on the child and as their mother only you have the right to decide when they are too old for their buggy not some random stranger.
My twins were 3 in the november and started nursery in the january so I used to take them round to pick up their big brother from school from the august and started walking in the mornings when they were ready to. This was only because I knew that the nursery is pretty cramped and its a struggle for a single buggy never mind a double one.

The interferring git gentleman would tut himself into a frenzy if he met me then. I regularly plonk DD aged 3 and a half in her buggy as she can't/wont walk that far and at 8 months pregnant I'm not carrying her when she's tired, nor will I stand in the street pleading with her to walk. Bugger that.

YANBU to push your 1 year old in a buggy at all. Why must people interfer with things that not only don't concern them but don't affect them at all? Do they really think that imparting their "wisdom" on others they'll have a total change of heart, ditch the buggy and force their child to walk?

some people are funny about toddlers in prams, my just 3 yr old sometimes goes int he bottom of the phil and teds. I do however do a 4 mile round trip so I dont think its fair to make her walk 2 miles to the park expect her to run round/play then walk two miles home
I dont care what anyone else thinks!

My DS is 2.9 and I stopped using the buggy regularly about a year ago. He's a strong walker, and because I don't drive he is used to it. He actually doesn't like getting in it. The rare occasions I have used it recently have been when he was ill and I took him in it to the doctors in it, and a couple of occasions when I have been running late and had to get him to nursery. But each child is different I imagine, and 22 months is still quite young so just ignore the nosey man!

I've often wondered when it's time to give up the pushcchair. I have a while to go (DD only 18 weeks) but I have been known to double take when I see what look like 5 years olds being pushed around often with dummies still in their mouths. Maybe they are younger than they look?! I would never judge someone for using a buggy for as long as they wished though as they must be doing it for a reason.

someone told me my baby (6 months)was too big to be carried around in a sling last week. People are idiots.

22 months is defo not too old for a buggy!!