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I see this way too much. People pushing 5 or 6 year olds in strollers. I'm not talking kids with disabilities, but "regular" kids who are of an age where they should be walking.
Once I was past toddlerhood, maybe age 3, I was not pushed in a stroller. Were you? I learned to walk with my parents, and not wander off or lag behind.
I remember being 4 and walking around large family amusement parks, the boardwalk, stores, etc. with my parents, sometimes holding their hand, sometimes just walking alongside. If I got tired and whiny, tough, I was big enough to walk and I had to keep up. If I kept whining, we went home.
Now there are kids who appear to be kindergarteners or even first graders being pushed around in strollers, and the parents say "it's just easier." They push the kids around in these huge strollers, sometimes 2-seaters, and knock stuff over in stores, and ride up the backs of your ankles if you're unfortunate enough to be in front of them.
If your kid can't handle walking around Disney World, or the mall, or the grocery store, then don't take him there until he can.
On our first day in Disney, we said the same thing. So we didn't get a stroller for our then-5 year old. Boy were we sorry, when we had to march all the way back to the front of the park mid-day, in the heat, to get one, because the 5 year old didn't give a crap that he's too old for a stroller. He was hot and tired and wasn't walking one more step, and was too old not to notice all the other 5 year olds in strollers.
And Disney is pretty much for 5 and 6 year olds, so it's silly to say don't bring them until they are old enough to walk it. Especially since Disney makes those strollers to fit older kids and actually recommends them.
And if it bothers you, then probably you shouldn't go to Disney.
My parents always made me walk, but then again the bulk of my generation wasn't overweight by kindergarten.
Same here. But nowadays, god forbid if a kid has to deal with the tiniest bit of fatigue or discomfort by actually using their legs. If they're actually injured, that's one thing. But otherwise, it's not going to kill them to walk for a while. It'll do them some good by getting them some exercise, toughening them up a bit, and teaching them that the world doesn't revolve around them. They didn't evolve to sit on their asses stuffing their faces with funnel cake.
I'm not trying to tell parents what to do, but I'm not going to be doing the same.
Same here. But nowadays, god forbid if a kid has to deal with the tiniest bit of fatigue or discomfort by actually using their legs. If they're actually injured, that's one thing. But otherwise, it's not going to kill them to walk for a while. It'll do them some good by getting them some exercise, toughening them up a bit, and teaching them that the world doesn't revolve around them. They didn't evolve to sit on their asses stuffing their faces with funnel cake.
I'm not trying to tell parents what to do, but I'm not going to be doing the same.
Said the person who isn't sweating his ass off at Disneyworld, having already walked the equivalent of four miles through 100 degree heat and humidity, loaded down like a pack horse with rain gear, lunch bags, drinks, extra clothes and a pair of Minnie ears, just as a red-faced five year old begins a very public meltdown in the middle of the happiest and most crowded place on earth.
And you know, honey, we could put all this crap we're carrying in the stroller too.....SOLD.
Said the person who isn't sweating his ass off at Disneyworld, having already walked the equivalent of four miles through 100 degree heat and humidity, loaded down like a pack horse with rain gear, lunch bags, drinks, extra clothes and a pair of Minnie ears, just as a red-faced five year old begins a very public meltdown in the middle of the happiest and most crowded place on earth.
And you know, honey, we could put all this crap we're carrying in the stroller too.....SOLD.
Are you kidding? Lol.
I've done entire moves in that kind of weather lugging all my belongings on my back, back and forth, on crowded public transit, walking a total of at least that much.
And the moment a five year old throws a tantrum would be the moment I threatened that we would leave and go home right that second.
Like I said before, I'm not talking about special needs kids or injured kids. Just healthy capable ones.
I've done entire moves in that kind of weather lugging all my belongings on my back, back and forth, on crowded public transit, walking a total of at least that much.
And the moment a five year old throws a tantrum would be the moment I threatened that we would leave and go home right that second.
Like I said before, I'm not talking about special needs kids or injured kids. Just healthy capable ones.
Strollers are a poor substitute for discipline.
It's not really reasonable to think a 5 year old can walk that many miles. The parks require walking - fast walking - for something like 6 miles a day. They can't do it. Many adults can't do it (hence the popularity of the motorized scooters, sold alongside the strollers).
Plus, when you pay 10K for a week at Disney, it's so your kid can have a magical experience, not so you can torture them and then "discipline" them.
You have no idea. You clearly don't understand anything about kids.
And I get the impression you haven't been to Disney as an adult, either.
It's not really reasonable to think a 5 year old can walk that many miles. The parks require walking - fast walking - for something like 6 miles a day. They can't do it. Many adults can't do it (hence the popularity of the motorized scooters, sold alongside the strollers).
Plus, when you pay 10K for a week at Disney, it's so your kid can have a magical experience, not so you can torture them and then "discipline" them.
You have no idea. You clearly don't understand anything about kids.
And I get the impression you haven't been to Disney as an adult, either.
Being a parent is so much easier before the kid is born.
I can only imagine a medical professional opinion of expecting 35lb Johnny to haul around for hours in the baking sun.
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