The carts of entitlement...

[Racheltension1]

They are huge carts. On wheels. With a sort of pulley handle. That have started appearing. Left in front of every exhibit, in every zoo, museum, kids activity in general....dragged along by smug middle class dads usually, who are of course the first people on earth to ever have children...cos little Araminta and Finn might DIE if we don't lug ten tons of their crap around with us for one single day out somewhere. What the hell are these things in aid of? What have you even got in there? You look at the kids, they are like 9 years old, can they not carry a little backpack? Just awful.

Like this - we got ours from Aldi.

Op, catamaran says she uses it instead if a car, which means they fulfill similar roles, anything that reduces car use is a good thing

I think with triplets no one has the right to complain about anything you do to get them around when small, signed the inferior mother of twins 🤣

Noooo, that's it! Please don't do it, you don't need it! 🤣

TBF, if you're going to zoos to see lions and gorillas and there is only one small glass window to see them through, it's not the sort of zoo you should visit.

Only on MN is a 3yr old still using a buggy.
Mine used their feet.

But what do people put in them? Children? "Stuff"?

Disclaimer - I have no children, am too old to have them, and have never seen one of those carts.

We had one for a festival. It was brilliant, we could keep the coats in it for when the weather cooled, lug around water bottles and use it to carry our snacks and bits and bobs. Then when our toddler got tired he had a nap so we could still look around without someone having to sit on the tent. Don't see the issue, wasn't much bigger then a pushchair and we didn't put it in anyone's way. Not sure how it makes me entitled?

Ate old ladies with shopping trollies allowed? Big double buggies? Mobility scooters?

Depends where you're going!

For the beach (not necessarily everything on the list):
Picnic
Towels
Blankets
Popup tent
Snorkels
Bodyboards
Windbreakers
then all the other general beach stuff (suncreams, talc, rockpool net, bucket, spade etc.

I don't want one. Doesn't bother me if other people want one.

Oh thanks for the link, we Def need one of these. First year without a buggy and was wondering what we'd do

I don't know! I have children but...wet wipes? A toy? Water bottle maybe? When you're just on a day trip...I don't get it!

Yes people really do inconvenience themselves with these trolleys (which are quite hard to steer if I'm being totally honest) to carry around a single toy, a packet of wet wipes and a water bottle. You've got it in one.

What then, come on?

What do people put in cars, I just don't get it?

I'm thinking...
Premade bottle of cordial
Sandwiches and snacks
Towels
Sandcastle stuff
Change of clothing for kids

It's all uphill home tho so I need to think about a 19kg preschooler or two hitching a ride home.

Certainly at festivals it's normally just kids on them, so parents and get about faster

I think they are very useful but at the same time they don’t need to in peoples way.

Ooh I have seen these at festivals, have they broken free and colonised the wild now? There were cute little covered wagons at one festival too, like tiny pioneers off to destroy the "wild west". My kids are too big to fit and would just break them.

They're great for days out, saves going back and forth to the car. Who can carry packed lunches, juice boxes, wet weather gear and 2 tired under 5s. I wouldn't take them on a bus but they were wonderful for going to a bigger park, Legoland, beach. Lots of places in Denmark have them for rent. Also brilliant at guide camp.

There's five of us, out potentially 10-6, kids getting wet / dirty. We couldn't manage on a water bottle, a toy and a packet of baby wipes unless you're literally buying and discarding everything as you go.

Oh, also for taking a load of cakes from the school to the town hall for the cake stall at the fair. I've used it for transporting stuff for an exhibition for work as well. They come in really, really handy!

For the beach:
Tent
Mats
Towels
Swim gear
Wind breaks
Bodyboards
Beach toys
Picnic
Drinks
Handbag/changebag
Spates/mallet/buckets
SPF etc

When we go to the beach, we go for the full day - & it's a steep slope down.

No. None of the above. Out of my way, I want to see the lion. The poor bastard.

Maybe the beach is a better day out for you op