WHEN WOULD YOU EXPECT YOUR CHILD TO STOP USING A BUGGY???????

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I'm in a quandary. DD is 2.5 and her buggy has died. I have a bad back so need something light and easy to push. I have been looking at 3 wheelers as there is less rolling resistance but everywhere I look it suggest suitable for up to 3 yrs old.

DD is going to a Nursery that is 20 mins walk away for an adult so I imagine even as a 3.5 yr old she will need a buggy. Am I raving?

the kids i see in buggies at 4 and 5 are never obese though...

filly - that's because obese 4 -5 year olds are way too heavy to push in a pushchair.

god though, my nearly-4 yo is like a RAKE

I sometimes use a buggy for ds2 ( just 4)- had to use it yesterday to walk half a mile to take ds1 to kids club. ds2 would never walk that far- and even if he did- it would take an hour longer than desired.

do you know though, i am shallow here

i would NOT have a buggy just for ds, I have realised

it is somehow different when he is just tucked away under the phil and teds...

If we walked 3 miles to nursery/school then DS probably would have had a buggy beyond 3.

But it was ~200yds to his old nursery from our old house so he walked that from about 3 weeks after he learned to walk. And now it is a 12 mile round trip to do nursery/school run for both DC and I am not walking that!

We ditched the big 3 wheeler and kept the lightest possible McLaren in the back of the car until he was about 3, I think (hazy memory) and then realised we hadn't used it for ages. But as filly so rightly points out, that's because I have a car so walking is either around town or recreational - both of which DS was more than capable of by 2.5.

tiredemma really?

Your 4yo would not walk half a mile (that's a 10min slow walk for an adult)?

That's our walk to school which DS2 has been doing for years. I would be worried if he wasn't able to do it.

And children who are obese don't look like size 22 adults, FWIW.