To still use a buggy board??

[BebeBelge]

Sorry - this kind of follows on from the several 'too old for the buggy' threads that seem to around at the moment... But dd is 3.10 and we use a buggy board quite a lot. I have ds in the buggy and am 7 mo pregnant with dc 3 so I don't push her constantly. She has to walk up hills etc. or just get off to give me a break. But I don't see many of them around here. Is she too old even for buggy board?

No, my DD is the same age and we still use ours. DFD is 2 so she gets the buggy. I'm gradually getting DD used to the idea she's too big for the board, though.

She's huge, and my arms are starting to look like Madonna's!

I stopped using ours when the stress of going round corners caused the pushchair frame to snap - I think ds was four, he was definitely huge.

Have hideous memories of trying to plough through the snow with 1.5 stone of baby in the pushchair and 3 stone of child on the buggy board.

That makes me feel better. I just didn't realise people were so judgy about these things. NOT that it should matter to me what others think blah blah... but I'm spineless and it does

As was pointed out on the other thread, if you are walking places and using a buggy/buggy board, you are setting a much better examples than the people who just shove their children in the car- and those people never get funny looks.

fuck what other people think. Do what makes your life easier x

My dd is 3 and still uses a pushchair. I now have newborn ds who will be in a sling so dd can still have the buggy. If you walk a lot you do need something for a 3 year old be it a buggy board or a pushchair. We walk a mile or so to school/nursery in the morning. Dd then has to walk a mile or so home again at lunch. Then in the afternoon we have to go back again to get ds. We don't use a pushchair for the morning runs but funnily enough by school pick up time after already having walked 2/3 miles plus played all morning at nursery then been to the park or whatever in the afternoon she is shattered and I can't make her walk another 3 miles! Sure there are plenty of others her age or younger in the playground at pick up who have walked but they have walked from down the road in the same village or from the car and not from the next village over like us!

DS2 uses a buggy board when I have DN. He is in the buggy when we're on our own. He's 3.3, walks most places, but we still need back up.

I find the people that judge tend to be the ones who also drive the school run. (It astounds me. Alone, the walk to school is 8 minutes, with DS2 it's 15, max. 3 other families live in my street and all drive.)

I had a buggy board for my son on the back of my double buggy until he was past four. I only took it off as I think the combined weight of 2 year old twins, a 4 year old and the buggy itself was probably greater than my weight and we were in danger of going backwards down hills.

Anyone who judges you is a weirdo.