When did you stop putting your children in the supermarket trolley seat?

[RedRobyn2021]

It says up to 15kg

I haven't weighed my daughter since she was 2.5 and she 15kg then, she's now 3.5 and tall for her age too. I still put her in the trolley seat because she asks

But it's getting the point where I'm thinking I'll have to say no, maybe when she's around 4

What are others doing? I talked to a friend a while ago with a child the same age and she said she hadn't even thought about the weight limit

If she is over 15kg you shouldn't - it is dangerous and she might get injured if it breaks.

We never did. I always found trolleys a bit disgusting so I’d just shop at places where you can scan / shop and put straight into bags.

When they wanted to walk. Which for mine was about 20 months with my oldest and about 2 and a half for my youngest.
I’ve no idea what they weighed at that point.

I stopped when I couldn't lift them out by myself any more. Mine were big babies though, with huge feet! Maybe 2 1/2 for DC 2 & 3, slightly younger for DC1.

I’ve never seen a 4 year old in the trolley seat!
I think DC1 was early 2 when she last went in.

What difference does that make with a young child?

My 3yo (just) is still going in the trolley seat for about half the shop. She'll walk a bit but I can't trust her to behave all the way round. I can just to say lift her in safely as long as she co-operates.

I assume the 15kg is a cautious limit and it's likely weight tested to a higher weight.

My child was in school at 4 so I certainly wasn't putting him in a trolley seat. I stopped putting them in around 2.

Until she was about 2.5, she was more than capable of walking around the super market after that plus it started to become hard work getting her in and out!

5, she's petite and wild. We've stopped now but she still could if I needed her to

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I stopped at about 2 for all of my children. Apart from my youngest, she is quite fiesty and pretty tiny so she was in there till 4 which I thought was quite old!

Dd1 about 3 as it was getting difficult because she was light but had really long legs. Dd2 fit in at 4 but she was a dot. I miss those days of her singing at the top of her voice and playing games together whilst she sat in the trolley

DD came out as soon as DS was ready to go in, so around her 2nd birthday (20 month gap). She was an early walker and fairly trustworthy not to bolt/muck around though. Our usual supermarket does have kids trolleys though so at 4 she now usually takes one of those around and demands all the treats go in her trolley

DS is 2.5 and at no point soon will he be out of the trolley seat, he’s a human dynamo! Couldn’t do a shop without being contained 😂 He is 25th centile though so I reckon I can get away with it for a few months more (hopefully he’ll be less insane by then!)

DS is 6 and still goes in one!

My 18 month goes in the seat, and my nearly 3 year old goes in the main bit of the trolley. Too chaotic and hard to manage her out the trolley with both. Tho occasionally on a small shop grabbing a few things she'll walk

If I was just with my 3 year old, she'd probably walk some and sit in the seat some.

You shouldn’t put a child in the main part of the trolley- they really aren’t designed for this.

I still often put my 6 year old in the trolley seat. 😂 I can lift him in and out no problem, and sometimes i need to be fast around the shop. He is no more going to kill himself breaking a supermarket trolley seat than he is likely to falling out of the tree he climbs in the garden.

When I had a second. I horrify MN and put the older one into the trolley itself.

I still put my 5yo in the trolley seat! He's autistic and developmentally delayed so he definitely can't walk around (safely) in a supermarket. He fits fine.

Mine are both under 25th centile and 14 months apart. At 3 and 4 they normally walk in moat shops but could still go in the trolley if need be, as both under 100cm and 16.5 - 17.5kg. They both still go in the Costco trolley. I've noticed some shops have higher weight limits on Thier trolleys too.

6yo. But he was a preemie.

Mine is nearly 3 and still sits in them. When the supermarket has the little ones for children to push we use them instead. We battle with him to get him to walk so we'll be using the seats as long as he's under 15kg. He's on the smaller side for his age (somewhere between 11-12kg).

On a short shop, both DC often like to walk. If it's an hour-long big shop, neither has the impulse control or the attention span to just traipse around behind me so 2yo goes in the seat. 4yo starts in the main trolley, then when I need the trolley space for the shopping he moves into the seat next to the 2yo.

ETA I don't know what either of them weighs, but the 4yo is slim and light-boned, for want of a better word. He probably more than 15kg but not by a huge amount.

Around 2.5. She's always been tall for her age so was over the weight limit by then.