to think that in a shopping centre on a busy Saturday

[Vinomum]

toddlers (and I mean ones that are really still tottery) should be kept in their pushchairs instead of being allowed to get out? It's stressful enough shopping on a busy weekend without having to walk at a snail's pace behind a toddler walking along with two oblivious, dewy-eyed parents watching adoringly as their offspring falls over for the hundredth time.

There are plenty of places to let small children wander, shopping centres at a weekend are not one of them!

Vino, relax, noone, accused you of having a go at working mums, I was merely responding to housework.

You seem to fail time and time again to understand my simple point: what YOU consider considerate might not be viwed as such by others and vice versa.

Eh, houseworker did and you replied 'good post'. What's not to understand?

No SwanandDuck, don't apologise, it's good to know I'm not alone in thinking this.

Mummygirl your posts are getting ever more ridiculous. Housework's post quite openly accused me of thinking that working mothers shouldn't be out shopping. Not only is this completely irrelevant, it's also accusatory and wrong. You wrote 'Good post Housework' - so you agree with her (unless I'm wildly misunderstanding?!!). So the first line of your post is simply wrong.

You then say that 'time and time again' I fail to understand your simple point. Where?? I said that whatever these hypothetical pushchair-haters may or may not think about seeing me with my 3yo and 10 mo in a pushchair is irrelevant to this thread as they're not the age of children I'm talking about. Then you come back and tell me that actually you're not talking about what they think now but what they would have (maybe!) thought 2 years ago. Ah! It all becomes clear!!! I took your point in your second post but did not respond (frankly because I wasn't interested in getting into a debate about what you think random unknown people may or may not think about mums with pushchairs), so where is this 'time and time again' thing coming from??

Finally, as you seem to be very worried about this, I have a Phil & Teds. Hope you can sleep at night now.