what age do you stop using a pushchair?

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thats my question in a nutshell.

I think a lot of it is to do with the size and stamina of the child. I fully expected my ds1 to be out of his buggy by the time he was 2 but he is quite small for his age and gets tired easily. He is 3.5 now and is mostly out of it, but will stand on the back of ds2's pram when he's tired or i'm in a rush. Unless i'm on long shopping trips, in which case his pushchair gets pulled out and the ds2 gets put in the carry pouch.

i used one for the little girl i used to care for until she was 4.
Mainly because I used to go shopping with her, and she would get tired after walking around for ages! Also, good for carrying the shopping in!

I regretted it when I got rid of it because she wanted to go into town and I had her to watch plus bags to carry etc etc!

I wouldn't get rid of one just because your LO resists getting in... they all go through that phase but soon want it back when they're tire of walking!

Dd1 was in hers until age 2 when i had dd2, i brought a double but she didn't use it.

Dd2 was in hers until about 2.9 and Ds is 2.3 and still in his. He would like to walk but it just takes too long and dd2 is still prone to running off and i can't control them both.

Will miss my pushchair like mad.

I do think that if and when they want to walk, that's to be encouraged. I know they dawdle, but how else are they going to get used to walking decent distances?

My DS is the sort of child that would still happily be in his now if I hadn't taken the impetus and pushed him out when I got pregnant. Even then when DD was a few weeks old and I took them to Ikea he had a paddy because "where's my pushchair?" because he'd recently spotted it in the garage. Seemed to think I could push DD in hers and him in his on my own around Ikea.

Depends on the child really, and you circumstances - if you have a later walker (like DS1 - who only started walking at nearly 18 months) the prospect of ditching the buggy at 2 1/2 is practically out of the question. If you have to walk everywhere, and long distances (as I did when DS1 was younger) then it's probably harder to ditch it early too.

DS1 used the pushchair until he was about 3yrs old, but I think DS2 will be out much sooner than that - he's only 15 months at the moment, but already a competent walker with lots of energy - and we live close enough to walk to everything.

agree with the others - depends on how far you walk, how good they are at walking etc. Mine rarely uses his now (3y2m) but does use a buggy board. If I didn't have DS2 I would think I would still use it for long distances.

what's the equivalent of 'doll in pushchair' for a little boy???

"what's the equivalent of 'doll in pushchair' for a little boy???" We used a doll in a pushchair! When the doll got too muddy it was left at home and he pushed the pushchair to destruction. The best 5 pounds I ever spent on toys for him!

My son would walk everywhere from when he learned to walk. He stopped however when his little sister was born and now at the age of 3(!) he wants to go in the pushchair all the time
because she is...

DD is 2y 11m and since Christmas we have used the buggy less and less. I still take it into town with us - too handy for the bags for me not too but she tends to walk most places now.

Don't think there's a right time to be honest, but I stopped before DS was 3

Legacy .. its a doll in a pushchair .. boys see both parents pushing a buggy with child

I think it very much depends on the child. DS always hated his buggy and I was really rubbish at pushing it/folding it/getting on and off buses, so we started using a hippychick seat when he was about 2... I think we used the buggy for the last time when he was 2 and a half. Now he is happy to walk anywhere so long as I tell him a story at the same time. Which is almost as tedious as pushing a buggy!

Legacy, I bought my boy a pushchair for Christmas (a lovely blue one). He tends to push Postman Pat and Lala, but equally likes pushing Pat's van and any number of cars! I don't have anything against him having a doll, but we don't have one yet. Agree that as dh is happy to push pushchair, why shouldn't ds. The problem was finding one that wasn't pink!

v. intresting DD1 is 3 next month and whines that her legs hurt on the way to school (it is only just round the corner!!!) I'm trying to go cold turkey though

Just transferred ds (three and a half) onto a buggyboard, which he absolutely adores. But would still be using the pushchair if I didn't have it (and a new baby!). He has some small motor delay which means he finds it unbelievably tiring to walk, so it is impossible for him to walk decent distances and he also walks incredibly slowly. I would have liked to ditch it earlier, but it would have made both our lives impossible.
Mind you re the thread title, I think if dd is like ds, and given my - ahem - advanced age, by the time I ditch the pushchair it will be their turn to push me around in my wheelchair!

and what about buggyboards? i see a woman at school whose 4.5 yr old regularly uses one (her ds is nearly 3 and in the attached buggy)

(not directed at aloha

Oh, bundle, I would LOVE to be pushchair free!
Am always bullying him off the buggyboard!

I don't feel attacked by your post btw! (oh the perils of internet communication)

Hey, Aloha, great news that he loves the board though - dd1 hated it when I tried her on one.

DD2 has started bellowing OWWWW and trying to get out, which has its downsides when you are trying to get home in time for the Ocado delivery, egg on face here

I'm binning the buggy in a couple of weeks - ds will be 5!

i know aloha, in fact the only way i got dd1 off it was by breaking the bloody thing so it fell off the buggy and i only had clips on that one, not the one we use now.

I recall when I emigrated to UK in 97 when ds was 3 yrs 2 m, I needed to buy a lightweight buggy but I do know that I only used it for the first few weeks...
He was a very strong walker though, being a kiwi kid all them hills.
DD is now 28 mths, cannot see her being out of buggy early as she was late walker and is tiny and has a vague delay and does tire easily.
But I am buggy boarding her already and she loves it, she has a hitchiker seat one
Brill invention! Then I fill the buggy with SHOPPING!!!

We used the buggyboard until dd was about 6 but she is very small for her age and we were doing a lot of walking. She's 9 now and still fits comfortably in ds's lightweight 'spare' buggy!

I must admit that even if ds didn't still use a buggy because of special needs (he's nearly 5), I wouldn't be in a rush to get rid of it as I have RSI and can't carry shopping very far. I'd much rather load up the buggy for shopping or trips to the park/beach than take the car.

I can't understand why you all hate your buggies so much, don't you feel a bit sad when your children are too grown-up to need them?