AIBU to keep the buggie for 4year old DS?

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Off to the tip this weekend and was wondering if The pushchair should now go in the "going" pile ?

I've kept it up until now for emergency use eg if Ds is poorly and I need to get him to the Doc's etc.

Anyway we are off to Turkey in July (DS will be 4.6) and I'm thinking it may be useful in an evening or if we've got a long walk back from the beach etc.

DP thinks it should go and we wont end up using it anyway.

Would you keep it until after the holiday ?

Take it.

I still use a buggy for when my nearly five year old is too poorly to walk the half mile to his sister's Rainbows group, as he's too heavy to carry and I can't drive. Also useful for when he's off school ill amd I can't carry him in when I take his sister in.

I've never had funny looks amd I've also noticed other older children in buggies.

My son was still in his carriage pram until the day before he starts school. So useful for all the shopping underneath. It was good fun.

Days like this, with the wind blowing in my face as we walk uphill, I do wish DS2 didn't still need his buggy at almost 8. I'm knackered.

I can still remember the humiliation of being made to use a borrowed pushchair on a family holiday at the age of three (and a cot at the house where we stayed!). This painful memory did not deter me from using a buggy at Disneyland when dd was four, presumably for the same reasons my parents had.

Keep it if you need it for your hols. My twins were in the buggy until 4.2 yrs when they finished nursery. Lots of judgy looks from people, but until you've tried carrying two tired 4 yr olds for a mile you wouldn't understand. They had to go on all school runs for older dc as well, with no car the buggy was our only option. They are now nearly 6 yrs and great walkers/ bike riders!

Well just think, those who are judging are the ones miserable in hotel rooms at 8:00 at night because their dc are too tired.

You will be enjoying a relaxing drink under the stars while your Ds is cosy in the buggy.

If you can't forgo bedtimes on a holiday abroad, when can you :o

Well just think, those who are judging are the ones miserable in hotel rooms at 8:00 at night because their dc are too tired.

You will be enjoying a relaxing drink under the stars while your Ds is cosy in the buggy.

If you can't forgo bedtimes on a holiday abroad, when can you :o

at 4 mine would have definatly refused a buggy as they would see that as babyish. still mine walked miles as I didn't have a car.

if he's tired he could curl on your lap in a restaurant or on a bench.

also at 4 would he be comfy in a buggy? be a bit big wouldn't he?

Nah, kids can sleep anywhere any how if they are tired enough :o

I'd hang on to it for a holiday - we've just ditched ours but thinking about our holiday it probably would be useful! Hey ho.

What the hell? People get judgey over this?

Some people really do need to get a bloody life.

I've just remembered that I got judged last week for having DS2 in a buggy. An old guy in a shop apropros of nothing asked "isn't he a bit too old for a buggy by now?"

DS2 is 1yo

oh definatly noones business but yours op. everyone is different, my kids wouldn't have gone in a buggy at 4 but sometimes bloody wished they would have. do what suits your family as always.

If the child can fit in it and you can push it, then it is fine.

160+ msgs?

How many people are going to be pushing this buggy? Coz I think they're the only ones who have much right to an opinion. Sheesh.

We put DS to bed in the buggy when we're on holiday or in Italy and are going out to dinner (where you eat no earlier than 9pm so no question of keeping him up). He sleeps the whole way through. We'll keep a travel buggy expressly for that purpose until he's old enough to stay up later. In Italy they sell extra large/long buggies expressly for this purpose due to the late night culture. I don't like taking him out and would much rather stay home with him in his bed, but sometimes we have to do it.

I'd take it. No doubt a lot of the 'a BUGGY at FOUR?' crowd just use their car when they have to walk more than a mile or two, which obviously doesn't raise an eyebrow. DS is nearly 4 but has teeny tiny little legs. The school run is 2 1/2 miles. Right now it's buggy, or set out for school/nursery with three hours to spare.

I bought a (admittedly second hand and cheap) double buggy when my dd was 3.4 ( and her baby brother teeny). We use it every day for the pre school run. We live on the very edge of catchment. Any parent who is judging us lives closer. And quite a few come by car.

Also I can walk 1.5 miles in 17 minutes if we are late. (I have a baby - we are always bloody late.) Dd can't.

I don't drive zoe so it's walking for us.

Yup time to go, I would have kept mine forever but I knew its time was up and that ds should be carrying his own weight. Oh how I missed it!

one of the most judgmental people I know re buggys NEVER used one full stop. She's sneery and laughs as her child has walked up the path to the school since she could toddle.

I live 7 minutes walk from the school.. she lives closer and takes her car....

My DS will be 2.6 in July AND we're off to Turkey to OP!!

Obviously, we'll still be taking the buggy (and quite frankly, we don't find it cumbersome, in fact, a God-send to put tired DS in whilst we manage the baggage etc - no fun tackling a grumpy, miserable, tantruming toddler AND luggage!) but we'd still take it at 4.6. Buggies are a source of comfort for little ones on long walks in the heat of the sun and for evenings when they are getting weary.
Stuff what everyone else thinks - why should it be a problem for THEM what you do?

I put my 7 year old in a buggy just before Christmas. We went to an evening party about 20 mins walk from our house. DH and I both decided we would like a drink, so knowing that the dc would be tired/asleep when it was time to come home, we took buggies and pushed the children home. I don't care if she is too big, it would have been cruel to make her walk home at the end of the night. She had a brilliant time at the party and was able to have a ride home at the end. Take the buggy on holiday, even if you don't use it, at least it's there if you want to take dc out for an evening, he can curl up and go to sleep if he needs to.

We used ours for our daughter on holiday until she was 5.5. Taking a midnight flight, meant she slept in the stroller until our flight was called. I would rather people think we are babying her than have a moany tired child to carry about.

And she is now 7- perfectly fine on the active scale and she has not turned into an immobile blob, despite the use of a pushchair on holiday.