3 year olds

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How far does your 3 year old walk? Do they listen to you to hold hands, stop at roads etc?
Wondering what I should realistically expect from my 3 yr old. Buggy isn't an option unfortunately.

I have a 3.5 year old DS1, and a just turned 2 DS2.
DS1 I can completely trust and have done for a long time, to listen when asked to stop/wait/hold hands etc. He is also very good at looking and listening for cars and telling me when it is safe to cross.
DS2 is recently wanting out of the buggy alot more, if we are in a quiet area I will allow him to walk alongside me but he must hold hands to cross roads (we are in the process of getting him to look and listen for cars before we cross) he will stop when asked to and hold my hand without question.
If I am on my own with both children near busy roads I do put reins on the youngest just for my peace of mind.
I still take buggy and buggy board most places incase needed, but even DS2 will walk a fair distance now and they aren't used very often, I just like to have it there as an option as I'm five months pregnant and couldn't carry them if they did get tired or play up! They seem to walk further if I give them things to look for eg cats, flowers etc. Or play games like 'we're going on a bear hunt!'
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Thanks KW89 can you remember when between age 3 and 3.5 he was a good walker and how long or how far would he work for?

We had DS2 when DS1 was 23 months old. I didn't get a double buggy, we used a buggy board alot to begin with. I can't remember to be exact, I know I never had to use reins on him when he did walk as he always listened even before he was three (though maybe it just felt like that as I only had the one to watch then?!)

We have just returned from holiday and barely used the buggy, both boys were walking for hours daily, obviously with stops at play parks or snack stops/picnics etc. X

My three year old daughter is fairly lazy and really won't walk far at all so I do still take my buggy a lot as she'll inevitably ask to be carried, much to my annoyance!!!

DS (2.5) will and does walk a couple of miles if you take it slow enough or you have the occasional breather. Probably a mile at a time is more accurate.

We don't have a car and I can't carry him so he kinda has to, but he doesn't really complain either.

No road sense really so he has to hold my hand wherever there's cars or crowds. We're working on recall now , but it's a slow process.

My DS1 is 3 and a half and will walk for some distance. He has always wanted to hold my hand when walking so thats never been an issue for me. He will stop before crossing roads and look out for cars. Sometimes he does get a bit tired and our pace slows down...... now my DS2 is 19 months too young to be walking a great distance but I know already he will not want to hold my hand, will not wait and won't listen. The very short distance we usually let him walk, is well a bit of a nightmare at the minute !!!

I have a 3.5 year old. She walks for miles with nursery. But if she goes anywhere with us her legs are about to drop off, she says. We're working on road safety still, so have tight hold of her.

My ds is 3.5 and we have only fairly recently ditched his Littlelife back pack, although to be fair we could probably have done it sooner but i'm nervous about it. He is very good at holding onto the buggy (dd has just turned 2)and not running off. He's good with roads but as he's still so little I keep a pretty close hold on him still. He's not a bolter so won't just scarper. We don't drive so he can walk quite a long way I think. We walked to a neighbouring village recently that Google clocked as 2 miles from our house, but it's down hill and he needed a sit down when we got there. He'll sometimes ask for a piggy back but can walk several miles a day. Dd is 2 and bloody liability any where but the buggy! She will run off and not look back......unless we actually want her to walk somewhere at which point she wants to be on shoulders!

DD1 is 3.2yo. The last time she went in a buggy was 2 1/2 ish, but we used a buggy board/scooter (mine is a 2in1) a lot for longer trips out for a while after that. These days she can manage to walk around our local zoo for maybe 4 hours if we have a lunch stop somewhere in the middle. She will eventually refuse to walk though and insist on being carried on my shoulders: less than ideal when I need to also push DD2's buggy! If we're going to be out all day walking I try to bring her balance bike which is a really good leg saver.

When walking by the road she is good at holding my hand when I ask her (always to cross a road, or I'll hold her arm/hood if she's on her bike), but on the quieter roads in our village I let her walk/ride ahead a bit. She knows to stop at curbs and to wait for me but still sometimes over-shoots her front wheel if on the bike. We're working on this, hence being given 'freedom' only on quiet residential roads.
We only had one occasion where she tried to run into the road, not long before her 3rd birthday: she got quite a telling off and warned that if she ever didn't stop at a curb again she'd be wearing reins. Fast forward 200m and she went to cross a (very minor, but none the less very present) curb across the pavement without me or even pausing. The next day she went to preschool wearing reins. Peer pressure worked it's magic and she listens very well now...

Mine is 3.9 it completely depends what she feels like as to whether she'll walk or not to be honest. Some days she'll flat out refuse to walk anywhere. Sometimes bringing her baby's pram has helped. I feel like I shouldn't bring her pushchair now... It's so hard though cos I can't make her walk