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trippindad82
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kids and strollers
#7564715 - 10/26/07 08:52 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I am sick and tired of seeing parents pull/push their able bodied kids around in strollers and wagons. I find it repulsive. Since the day my son could walk confidently, which was a little before 18 months, we took the stroller away. Yes, at first, he did get tired, but a 30 pound kid is pretty easy to throw up on my shoulders, as I am used to carrying a 50-60 pound backpack up and down hills/mountains. I also see it as good exercise. As he walked more and more, he gained more stamina and now has rocks for leg muscles. He's only three and a half and he can walk 3-4 miles easily. We do it on a daily basis, weather permitting.
Why do so many parents think their kids are incapable of walking? Don't these parents realize they are raising future lard asses? I am sick and tired of seeing kids my son's age and older getting pushed around in a stroller or wagon. I think that most 5 and 6 years olds (yes, I have seen them pushed) should be more than able to walk. What is up with this? Why do these parents turn their kids into pansies?
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MycoThrill
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/agree. I used to either walk when I was old enough to walk and not fall, or parents would carry me. +1
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LayYouIn
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my mom once tried one of those leash things...
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Re: kids and strollers [Re: MycoThrill]
#7564735 - 10/26/07 08:58 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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agree but, strollers beat the hell of out of the child leash hahahah
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I am far more offended by strollers in grocery stores and college campuses.
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xpl0de
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Re: kids and strollers [Re: LayYouIn]
#7564764 - 10/26/07 09:08 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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LayYouIn said: my mom once tried one of those leash things...
lol same here
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Re: kids and strollers [Re: xpl0de]
#7564877 - 10/26/07 09:45 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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because parents are worthless?because the kids are lazy? because x box has captured our youth culture?
lets complain about video games, they are more responsible! i hate them.
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Re: kids and strollers [Re: moon_glue]
#7564890 - 10/26/07 09:48 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Video games are fine, in moderation. I think the real problem is parents think their kids are going to get raped/offered drugs/abducted the minute they step outside without their parents, so they drive them everywhere instead of letting them go down to the park to run around. It's easier/safer for them to plop them in front of a TV with games or dumb TV shows to watch all afternoon.
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trippindad82
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Re: kids and strollers [Re: Sheepish]
#7564973 - 10/26/07 10:16 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I want to beat the shit out of parents who put their kids on a leash. I think a lot of the problem is that so many of these people wait too fucking long to have children. By the time they have them (around 35-40) they are so set in their own lazy ways that they don't really change for the children. I also believe these same parents are selfish. They use the TV and video games to entertain their children rather than sitting down and playing/interacting. I don't agree with people who have children and then immediately plop them into daycare. My son has never seen a day in daycare and that is because my wife and I worked around so that he could have the proper love and attention from us. I believe that to many of these people, having kids is more of a goal than a passion. Graduate, go to college, get fucked up for 10+ years of my life, get married to whomever because "my biological clock is ticking and I'm never going to get married if I don't rush into this", buy a house, have kids, divorce, retire around 70 because that's how long it takes to pay off their education as they didn't leave your house until they you are almost 60. (FUCK THAT).
Sorry about my rant, but I don't agree with the "wait till I'm older to have kids view". I will still be perfectly capable of doing things in my 40's and 50's that I am capable of doing today. The difference? I will have the time and money.
Back to what I was saying: parents need to pay more attention to their kids, stop treating them like fragile pieces of shit, and stop substituting love with material possessions.
Thank you all for reading my rant. I hope that I didn't offend anyone. I just
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kriminalelement
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A lot of moms put their kids in strollers because they have TOO MUCH CRAP to get taken care of and can't haul around 2 kids at once. However, at age 3 they should DEFINITELY be out of the stroller. My parents had me hiking in the rockies by the time I was four, and I never asked to be carried. My sister did. What a wuss. When I went to kindergarten I hiked up and down the mountain every day to get to school and back home. I was really super healthy. Then we moved to dallas and that sort of took a nose dive, but at least I'm not a lard ass. yet.
BTW trippindad, if you ever do think you need to put your kid in daycare, go ahead. I LOVED daycare, especially around the age of 8-9. It gave me a feeling of independence and made me a much more assertive person. It also relaxed me quite a bit. Everyday I couldn't wait to go after school and play for like 2 hours with all my friends.
It also gave me valuable time away from my parents. This was important, because at that point kids have spent like a decade in the exclusive company of mommy and daddy and really need to get out of the house a little. It's like an afternoon summer camp.
My sister hated daycare. But she's a wuss.
Just out of interest, is anyone else perturbed that there's a law requiring parents to put their children in a safety seat until the age of EIGHT? Isn't that totally humiliating for the kid? Do any parents here actually intend to do this to their children?
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That's why I like the sidewalks of downtown Richmond. Rough, uneven old school brick. No parent in their right mind would try a stroller on that kind of terrain.
Hell, it's hard enough to walk it drunk.
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trippindad82
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Quote:
kriminalelement said: BTW trippindad, if you ever do think you need to put your kid in daycare, go ahead. I LOVED daycare, especially around the age of 8-9. It gave me a feeling of independence and made me a much more assertive person. It also relaxed me quite a bit. Everyday I couldn't wait to go after school and play for like 2 hours with all my friends.
I don t think daycare is a bad thing, in fact my wife and I are going to be putting him in daycare this winter, part time, but so that he can socialize. What I see a problem with are people who put their child into daycare at the age of 6 weeks. I believe that the first year should be spent in the company of family, not in the company of a stranger who has ZERO emotional attachment to the child. Daycare is a great thing as it allows the children to socialize and build friendships without mom and dad being right there. Like I said, anything before a year is too soon to put that child into daycare, if you have a two parent home.
I am glad to see that your parents had you hiking when you were young. I started hiking with my son two years ago. Granted, at first he got tired, but like I said, he can now do a 3-4 mile hike without problems. I plan on taking him backpacking next summer and can't wait to see the look on people's faces when I tell them that he has been backpacking. You should see their looks now when I tell them he can do a longer hike then most people can stand to do.
As far as the car seat thing until the age of 8, I have mixed feelings on that law. When I was in elementary school, I knew two kids who died in car accidents (both were actually over 8) not because they weren't wearing the seatbelt, but because they were too small for the seatbelt to work. In both situations, the seatbelt was latched, but they slipped out over the top from momentum. The booster seat helps make the seatbelt the correct size so it reduces the chance of that happening. Is it embarrassing? Yes, but I think I'd rather be alive and embarrassed than dead.
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