to be annoyed at the nursery workers comment re DS still using a buggy?

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My DS is 3.4yrs and this morning when I dropped him and his sister, 18 months off at nursery this morning, nursery worker commented to DS , "ah you are a big boy now DS, you should be walking" .
Argh...I told her that we walk 2.5miles into nursery. It would take me about an hour to walk that with a dwadling DS, it takes me a good 30mins in a brisk walk. And most days I am late for work anyway.
I don't need the stress of making him walk all that way first thing in the morning. I just want to get to work!

Just annoyed me really as, most parents drop their kids off in a car at the nursery entrance and walk in. They never get commented on. I know some drive the same distance that I walk. If i took DS off the buggy just before we get to nursery and let him walk in, I'm sure that would be OK too
I just hate the assumption that just because DS is in a buggy that he is being lazy
He walks back home some days, when he is not too worn out from nursery.

So AIBU to let DS be in a buggy at his age?

Sorry, this is a monday morning rant above all really!

Brick dust and fluff?

Yeah, that's exactly what I meant.

Look, if people want their kids to wait over an hour before they have breakfast and shove milk and banana at them in a moving vehicle, that's ace for them.

I don't think it's ace for their kids, but apparently if it works for the parents, it works for "them as a family".

Again though, we're not talking about 3 hours without food in the morning - we're talking about a snack small breakfast first thing, then a proper breakfast at 8-8.30am.

You said nursery breakfast wasn't a proper breakfast - what on earth did you think it was then?

It works for the parents, it works for the kids, so the problem is...

I meant it wasn't proper breakfast, as in, it's not your ACTUAL breakfast.

It's your 2nd breakfast that you have when you've been up for nearly two hours and left the house.

I can see why if you were having that you'd have a smaller breakfast at home.

But I still don't think it's good for children to be eating their first food of the day whilst being bounced around in pram or a buggy or in the car.

If I was paying for my children to attend a 'Breakfast Club' or to have breakfast at nursery, I would certainly expect them to get 'breakfast' - why would I feel the need to feed them twice? It would be like cleaning the house before the cleaner arrives!

If I make breakfast for my DD when I eat mine (7-7:30ish) she will generally refuse it. It's probably partly because she's had a big cup of milk and partly she's just not a big eater. She does normally have something at 8 though, it's not that often that I give her toast in the car, probably once every couple of weeks.

I don't worry if she doesn't eat that much at this age because they have open access to snacks at preschool (fruit, crackers, raisins, milk) and quite an early lunch but I might worry more if she was school age.

I'm trying to teach her "eat when you're hungry, stop when you're full" so I don't feel comfortable making a big thing about eating if she doesn't want to.

Well, its better than them having nothing at all!

You can't have it both ways - you acknowledge that some children come to school unable to concentrate because they haven't eaten, but then you say its wrong to have a banana and some milk "shoved" at them on the way to school.

Do you realise that a banana and milk when eaten together have the complete essential amino acids and a complete range of vitamins and minerals, plus protein, fat and carbohydrate?

Does it really make a difference what you call these essential macro and micronutrients and indeed where and when they are consumed?

I have no axe to grind, my children do not eat on the run, they are offered breakfast at home every day without fail and if they don't eat it, I expect they eat well at their next meal. But I find your attitude extraordinary - if they eat before school, its wrong, if they don't eat before school, its wrong...everyone is wrong - except you!

AThingInYourLife, do you have any actual evidence that it's not good for children "to be eating their first food of the day whilst being bounced around in pram or a buggy or in the car"? Or are you just so convinced of your own superiority that you feel everyone should do as you do without question or argument?

Hang on... you're not my MIL, are you?!

My youngest charge is three, and sometimes I still put him in the buggy. Especially if we are in a hurry or somewhere he needs to be caged It can be like trying to walk with a wild boar

Tea at my nursery is a hot meal plus pudding.

However at home, DS has a tea of sandwiches/toasted teacakes after his nap at 3.30/4pm, and then we have a cooked dinner at 7pm. Though if I wanted to go out somewhere in the afternoon he has a snack in the pushchair

Its funny how bananas are only shoved when they are given in a car or pushchair.

If consumed at the kitchen table, they are...?? Offered? Dispensed?

Honestly, what a load of horses cock.