Reception aged kids in pushchairs?

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Maybe I just have my judgy pants on, maybe they have a really long walk. But AIBU to think school aged children are generally too old for a pushchair?

Agreed Cory. We were told there wasn't much going on with dd by various people until she was 4 and that she would turn out NT.

Except she has severe autism.

"Ps my sister teaches reception and she's had kids rocking up who use dummies and are still in nappies ( no, they don't have SEN), can't use a knife and fork, do up zips or buttons etc etc. Bit hard to understand the rational reason for all that!"

I wasn't diagnosed until i was 15... I still struggle with motor skills and continence....

Maybe i've just been lazy all my life?

Getting a diagnoses takes years, Doctors don't even bother with contience / motor skill issues until a child is 5.
Then it takes years of assessments. And that's if the school agree there is an issue, people like your "know it all sister" set this back even further by thinking it's the parents fault.

I would be at a teacher with that attitude. My dd wasn't diagnosed with her hypermobility till she was 13 but had symptoms and certain difficulties all her life.

It's funny that the two sets of parents I used to judge, in my younger, less experienced days, for infantilising their children eventually turned out to have children with autism, in one case quite severe.

They did not cause the situation by infantilising their children: they were just parenting the child they had, rather than some imaginary age-typical child.

I second what MrsDeVere said. I'm all for encouraging kids to grow and learn independence but since when do we exepct four year olds to act like eight year olds?

RE: buggy - we stopped using one before my son turned 3 because he didn't like it anymore and he's a big lad anyway. I would quite happily have used it for longer as it was so much easier to get around!

As for the decisions other parents make, I really don't get the interest! What the hell has it got to do with you what little Johnny Smith has for dinner or how he gets to school?