Aibu to not want my dc being strapped into Walk o dile

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Im prepared to be told I am being silly but, I feel uneasy about groups of children being strapped together.

At my dc nursery they have arranged a trip into town using a walk o dile. (Sorry don't know how to link). It's a so called safety device for keeping children safe when there are not enough adult hands available.

Aibu to think it looks unsafe because if one child falls so will others? Furthermore there are plenty of parents who would help if asked, nursery have said they don't want any parental help.

Maybe a chain gang could be the way to decrease nursery prices. Send the 2 year olds out all day to pick cabbages, earn their keep

I have 2 child with ASD and all the associated problems. They have been taught right and wrong. But at 3 years old both of them could decide to do a runner.

Not being able to prevent that does not make me a lazy parent.

What damage will it do, Estate?

Come on, what long term physical/psychological implications will this evil Walkodile have on the children?

Parents are outsourcing their children now are they? We don't outsource children. We don't import them, or export them, or sell them. They don't really fit in the 'good and services' category.

This thread is hilarious. It's called childcare. ChildCARE.

What world are you living in Estate?!

Have you seen how expensive housing is? That's why both parents have to work!!

I don't like the look of them either OP.

I can't quite put my finger on it...but I think it's something to do with making a group of individual children into one being...a sort of "super child"

But no, seriously....I don't like it. What if there was an emergency and they all had to run or be removed from an area quickly?

Estate, if I were you I would just thank my lucky stars that none of my children were bolters.

In fairness, one of mine was, I just held his hand everywhere we went until he grew out of it - and waited longer than I would have liked to have DD (DC2) as I knew having 2 would be unmanageable.

It's really not that hard

I've always been a sahm. Ds at 10 still needs some sort of reins on because he has no understanding of road safety and I'm not putting his life at risk.

I bet my two year old would sleep well after a day's honest toil picking cabbages. Plus the fee reduction.

I endorse this suggestion.

Oh stop it degrading and humiliating really the little kids round here also wear highviz vests I suppose that is humiliating too

estateagent nice pop at working parents there. How do you expect single parents to live then? Or anyone who needs more than one income just to feed themselves and their family?

Truly, my 2-year-old is damaged for life by the cruel and unusual punishment of not being able to run free as she chooses near articulated lorries.

Ehh, how would you move them quickly if they weren't attached 147728?

Tuck them under an arm?????

Because 3 adults can't hold the hands of 8 children at the same time, and this device stops one of them potentially scarpering off an going under a bus.

Have you seen how expensive housing is? That's why both parents have to work!!

Yes, this is exactly my point - its not a criticism of working parents as individuals, I just think it sad that the world has changed to the point that parents can;t afford to look after their own DCs.

...and then we have no choice but to strap our DCs together in this dehumanising manner

In fairness, one of mine was, I just held his hand everywhere we went until he grew out of it - and waited longer than I would have liked to have DD (DC2) as I knew having 2 would be unmanageable.

My DC2 was twins. You still haven't answered my question. Would it have been lazy to use one for twins and a sibling? Or would you have cleverly grown a third arm?

"it's really not that hard"

Well done. You managed to hold the hand of ONE child to stop them running off. That's fine, and the reason I don't need to use reigns on my 3yo (though I would in a really busy area).

Your medal is in the post.

But honestly, will we see these children in the future walking huddled in groups of 4?

Appearing on This Morning while Holly and Robot Phil look on sympathetically as they hear about the evil Walkodile.

So a walkodile is dehumanising and cruel, because it attaches children to another human and doesn't allow them to move automomously.

But holding a child's hand as you yourself did is totally different? Child still attached to another human, child still not able to go where they choose. Amnesty would be horrified I'm sure!

Could you not have used reins?

This sounds like a preschool most children do go to preschool well they do here we don't have reception class so it's preschool then school at 5 nobody is dumping children fgs

The difficulty with parental help at such young ages is they are entrusting someone else's toddler to someone who has probably not got a criminal record check - unless you only take your own child, which wouldn't help out much. I can understand if everyone is staying in a group, but even in a park, shops, going to the loo, it is very difficult when young and non verbal or kids who can't express much, are taken out by other adults who don't have a check or training. Sad world, but reality.

Estate what planet is it that you're from?
You're spouting utter rubbish.

I think society would have a bigger problem on our hands if every household kept their children at home and one parent or both didn't work. Such idiotic comments.

I would much rather my child was linked up to one of these than the possible alternative. Even well behaved children can sometimes be unpredictable.

One of my major issues about nurseries is that the children are dropped off in the morning and don't leave apart from a bit of play in the garden until home time. I believe children need to be out, in town, in the library, shops, park, field, forest, near traffic, other people etc. I think this is a really good idea, and if your nursery are willing to get the children out of those four walls, I think they should be encouraged at every opportunity.

It really isn't always practical to get parent helpers in. Ideally they would be taking the children out at least a couple of times a week, parents are not going to be willing to pay for childcare and then have to volunteer that often to help out.

Maybe its just me, but 2/3 children being controlled by one adult (either by hand holding or reins) seems to be a very different matter to attaching them to one another.

DCs holding hands is different too - its the yoking them together like oxen pulling a plough that seems so awful.