strollers, strollers, strollers

jloucks

jloucks

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Goofyernmost said:
First time we went my youngest was 6 and, frankly, it never occurred to any of us that a stroller was needed. And even if we had thought of it they both had legs and they worked just fine so what is the stroller needed for?
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Kids are WAY tougher than we give them credit.

Not fun fact: Child labor, hard labor, was a thing until just 100 years ago. I doubt any of them rode to work in a stroller. You know, before hitting the mines.

So, yea, kids can walk around an amusement park all day and probably live to tell about it.
 
Weather_Lady

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jloucks said:
Kids are WAY tougher than we give them credit.

Not fun fact: Child labor, hard labor, was a thing until just 100 years ago. I doubt any of them rode to work in a stroller. You know, before hitting the mines.

So, yea, kids can walk around an amusement park all day and probably live to tell about it.
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My kids were doing 10+ miles in the parks, sans stroller, as young as age 4 -- that's not a brag, as there's nothing magical about my offspring, but just an example of what an ordinary, able-bodied child can do. We loved the freedom it gave us, with no strollers to park or maneuver or bog down the flow of traffic. While I don't judge other families that decide to do things differently (oh, who am I kidding?!, of course I judge them and their overloaded strollers and cumbersome wagons and sherpa nannies and coddled half-grown kids, just a little, as we all breeze by them on our incredible working legs!), I think there's a happy medium between "pushing your kid around like they're in a Wall-E-style people mover all day" and "child abuse-level exercise" that many parents don't seem to recognize.
 
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jloucks

jloucks

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Weather_Lady said:
My kids were doing 10+ miles in the parks, sans stroller, as young as age 4 -- that's not a brag, as there's nothing magical about my offspring, but just an example of what an ordinary, able-bodied child can do. We loved the freedom it gave us, with no strollers to park or maneuver or bog down the flow of traffic. While I don't judge other families that decide to do things differently (oh, who am I kidding?!, of course I judge them and their overloaded strollers and cumbersome wagons and sherpa nannies and coddled kids, just a little, as we all breeze by them by on our incredible working legs!), I think there's a happy medium between "pushing your kid around like they're in a Wall-E-style people mover all day" and "child labor-level exercise" that many parents don't seem to recognize.
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Yep, mine too. We ditched strollers at about the same age.

We were big into camping and hiking when the kids were little bitty. Strollers and hiking trials don't' work too well. :p
 
Ayla

Ayla

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Goofyernmost said:
First time we went my youngest was 6 and, frankly, it never occurred to any of us that a stroller was needed. And even if we had thought of it they both had legs and they worked just fine so what is the stroller needed for?
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Our first trip our youngest was 5 and it literally never occurred to us to bring a stroller. Why would it? She was more than capable of walking. There is no reason on god's green earth a healthy 8, 9, 10 year old needs to ride in a damn stroller.
 
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BobPar

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Ayla said:
Our first trip our youngest was 5 and it literally never occurred to us to bring a stroller. Why would it? She was more than capable of walking. There is no reason on god's green earth a healthy 8, 9, 10 year old needs to ride in a damn stroller.
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I will respectfully disagree.... you are in the parks for say 10-12 hours walking all day long etc... thats a tough ask for a child heck even for an adult at times..... im not saying strolling your child the entire time buts its a good break to let them get some rest & also serves as storage for brings drinks into parks and snacks etc and to be able to hand stuff off it as well.... to me serves multiple purposes.
 
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BobPar

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ppete1975 said:
most people didnt bring their kids until they were big enough to walk, the infant going to disney for a social media picture wasnt a thing.
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my daughter is 9 and i been bringing her since she was born and not once was it for social media pictures..... when i was a child my parents took me when i was 4 brother was 2 and we went every year until our teens.... plenty of my friends have done same thing i have and for the right reasons now for IG photos by some silly purple wall
 
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graphite1326

graphite1326

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BobPar said:
I will respectfully disagree.... you are in the parks for say 10-12 hours walking all day long etc... thats a tough ask for a child heck even for an adult at times..... im not saying strolling your child the entire time buts its a good break to let them get some rest & also serves as storage for brings drinks into parks and snacks etc and to be able to hand stuff off it as well.... to me serves multiple purposes.
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No you're wrong. Kids are tougher than you think. My kids did it just fine. From opening to closing. AND then the wanted to go swimming.

Here is a list of food and drinks we brought into the parks:



I really think parents are just using a stroller as a cart for their food and drinks and stuff they buy. LAZY
 
graphite1326

graphite1326

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BobPar said:
my daughter is 9 and i been bringing her since she was born and not once was it for social media pictures..... when i was a child my parents took me when i was 4 brother was 2 and we went every year until our teens.... plenty of my friends have done same thing i have and for the right reasons now for IG photos by some silly purple wall
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I believe the person was referring to the generation before you like myself. When we first started coming you didn't see infants.
 
graphite1326

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sublimesting said:
We used a stroller until our DD was about 8. The last few years it was odd; however, we average roughly 20 miles a day in the parks. Although we had her walk a lot, 20 miles is a lot for little legs-especially over a 10 day period. Too many times people see it as laziness on the parent's part but don't consider the toll it takes on a small child. And to the point that we should just walk slower and do less....why? Why should we do less in a day, ride less, stay less when the only thing holding us back are tiny legs and not a willingness to have fun. We want to ride rides not trudge back to our hotel at 6pm because she was tired from walking.
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I call BS on the 20 miles
 

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