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.

I think they're awesome

Estate how do you propose my husband and I afford to live without 2 salaries?

Your parenting/career management is your own matter. Yoking your DCs together to make them easier to handle is really so very much not the answer though.

estate makes sense. Can you imagine how much litter these gangs of kids could pick up!? Being nearer the ground, no fear of touching gross stuff, and no comprehension of fair pay.....

I'm a SAHM and have tied my 3 together! Crowds, busy shops, music festivals etc. I'd be delighted to hear how I could have maintained safety without doing that.

A 'lovely' SAHM

Well good for you. Some of us can't afford to be lovely stay at home mum's. So we have to farm our badly behaved DC out to nurseries where they are mentally damaged by being put in a chain gang.

And I thought the citizens of Aleppo had it bad......

estateagent - I realise it would spoil your hyperbole... but you might want to look up the definition of "yoke". I'm sure you have time.

Wouldn't it be excellent if you could check kids into the cargo hold? I mean they take pets and someone feeds them etca ndnits warm etc in that section. They should just add a huge bouncy castle in the cargo hold with a zip net and you can check them in with your skis. Someone throws food at them occasionally. They would arrive at destination knackered from bouncing and sleep in the car journey

santa I don't really see why you can't use a double buggy, and yes, reins, while not ideal, are way better than this contraption.

I think parents of twins do get a 'pass' for reins though..

...a yoke? Not so much.

A double buggy and reins means they aren't getting a walk though.

I think this looks brilliant

I really can't see the issue. At all. Assuming the DC are happy with it (and if they're not, good luck getting them into it).

estate I don't see how any of your solutions work for more than 2 kids/1 adult. Which really means you are saying kids shouldn't go to nursery. or should stay in all day if they do....

The two in the buggy I mean.

That would be BRILLIANT.

Yes, reins are so much less 'dehumanising'...

(Kids in the cargo hold, that is!)

estate some kids won't go in or stay in a pram

I think they're a great idea

No children running into the road, ace!

Estate - well I couldn't get a double or triple buggy up my stairs to start with. Double buggy up 5 flights with two kids? No ta, newborn thrown in sling, 1 year old on reins. Then both on reins. Most nurseries wouldnt have storage space for multiple double buggies and if for 3+ years you want them walking anyway

Yeah, one of the things I liked best about my DC's nursery was that they got the kids outside every day, and walkers actually walked. Plenty of places we looked at didn't really take them out, or just stuck 2- and 3-year-olds in buggies the whole time when they did.

Why shouldn't the little toddlers be walking?! They won't want to be trapped in a pram all the time at that age, the device just means they can't get themselves run over. Everyone's a winner!

As a cm and as a mum I used reins.

in my years seen many toddlers running around and into the road, getting lost. It's always those same twatty parents who bleat 'I hate reins' presumably they prefer kids under car wheels then.

I have much less of an issue with reins tbh. Having them individually under the control of a carer seems so much better than having them attached to each other.

In fairness, this is a large part of the reason chain gangs are no longer used, it is recognised as being a dehumanising punishment.

...and it kind of reminds me of this...

Plenty of stuff we do with children would be considered dehumanising and ridiculous for adults. I don't think many adults would like to be walked around on reins, either, regardless of how many supervisors they were attached to.

If I had a large brood under 5, I would definitely invest in a walk o dile, what a fantastic idea to keep kids safe.

Oh yes toddlers need to walk. Drives me nuts seeing 3/4 year olds in buggies. Most can easily walk a few miles with drinks/food/stops.

Walking is great buggies are boring.

I think it looks fine op.

As soon as my baby is walking he will be attached to baby reins whenever we're out AND both my husband and I will be working full time. Lazy parenting obviously.