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.

Its a easy option, lazy parenting cop out, and we both know it.

I don't see how. It's not likely to be parents using them, is it? Unless they have octuplets.

I can't say I'm having a positive initial reaction to the contraption, though. It makes me think of paired horses in harness.

Sorry, its one of those things that intellectually is a good idea and has hundreds of things to recommend it. But it just looks awful. I'd hate my kid to be in one of them.

I hate reins on kids too.

I saw a load of teeny kids in a big pull along trolley thing the other day, being wheeled to the library. It was brilliant!

I call reins a lead. I used to tell DD to get her lead. I'll say the same to DS2 when he is out of the buggy

The kiddy bus...!! 😂

soub will you provide the children to go with it or are they sold seperately

Why do you hate reins, Bump?

Oh god I want a kiddie bus!!
I was wondering what I could spend £1330 on as it happens.

I wonder if I could make the teens push me and the pets around? Like a budget Queen Mum

I think Peppa Pig tops look awful and hate to see my DD in them. Sadly, DD and her dealers grandmothers have other ideas.

SAHM here too and mine both went to nursery (shock horror) and I reckon they would have LOVED that contraption. Suspect DD's Y3 teacher would quite like one now for school trips in central London- I may suggest the PTA buys some .

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Tsk, well that's easy. First you can simply give up on your expensive handbag habit and all those foreign 5-star holidays. Then you get a mumsnet chicken that feeds 5 people for a week. And of course you can also turn back time and go marry a wealthier man. Or win a lottery. See, easy.
Can you lend me your time travel machine please? Not that I want to swap my lovely DH but I could have invested and made a killing ;).

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.

But how is that any different? In effect they are attached to each other, it's just that there's a carer as part of the attachment arrangement.

I really struggle to understand why a walkodile is dehumanising and degrading when reins or straps in a buggy aren't.

Bumps, ime the alternative to reins if you have a runner is either

holding them by the hand- far more restrictive and I have known children to dislocate arms when throwing themselves down held by the hand

strapping them in the buggy- very restrictive and means they miss out on exercise and don't get used to walking

staying at home- see above

I can't see the difference between reins and a pram tbh - both are devices for constraining children and preventing them from running off toward danger. And tying them together if you are looking after 6-8 of them is just common sense. 'Chain gang'? Completely precious nonsense!

Oh my gosh, I laughed out loud at the idea of a row of children falling over like bowling pins.

But what if they all ran off together?!

Pass an ice cream van or a cute pony and you're toast.

Wishbone, can I just say that you have a really wonderful way with words? :o

You always paint a very vivid mental picture with your posts.

If the walk-o-dile is reminiscent of a chain gang, how come strapping them in a buggy isn't comparable to... let's say locking them in a prison cell? (if we ^are* going to indulge in hyperbolic fantasy)

Black Mariah cory?

That's the one, Manumission

Children sold seperately Fizz

Wow what a fab idea...

Wonder if those who refuse to use reins etc are the same ones who's kids run miles in front knocking over those shop displays whilst the parents fag it up at the back yelling "Cameron watch where your fucking going..."

I'd judge that far more than the walkodile. Kids need to get out and walk and play. I wouldn't want mine strapped into a buggy they were both perfectly capable of walking.

Baby gates = prison walls
Cot = cell
Going to soft play = being sent to Australian deportation colony.

This thread is making me realise how scared I am of large numbers of small children at once. No matter how you store them

When I was about 9, my best friend and I spent a whole year insisting she was a pony and I was her rider. She couldn't go anywhere without a skipping rope around her waist and me holding the handles like reins
Every break time, plus walking to and from school, I would steer her around. She would even gallop off and need me to pull the reins to slow her down

I am now coming to terms with my oppressive and abusive behaviour as a gang master...

And don't even get me started on the time I won the 3-legged race on sports day...