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"They make kids go fast..." that's what was FUN about them.
my cousin and i used to have Baby Races with our younger sisters (and another cousin) in walkers.
3 girls born 1 month apart, so we had to "handicap" the distance. 2 heat races to get the starting lines just right.
then...invite the Dads and Uncles to watch. someone still has the old 16mm movies somewhere. wish i knew where.
"They make kids go fast..." that's what was FUN about them.
my cousin and i used to have Baby Races with our younger sisters (and another cousin) in walkers.
3 girls born 1 month apart, so we had to "handicap" the distance. 2 heat races to get the starting lines just right.
then...invite the Dads and Uncles to watch. someone still has the old 16mm movies somewhere. wish i knew where.
My kids all used walkers in the 80's. My son used to chase the big kids around the yard in the walker, he was a pro. My youngest crawled out at 6 months, she was an escape artist.
Just last night saw my granddaughter in her walker, having a blast. My other 9 grandkids have used them as well.
My grandkids also have those motorized cars they drive in the yard and the littlest ones would ride with the bigger kids. Those seem more dangerous than baby walkers.
I used them with both my boys who are now in their early 30's with no issue. But we didn't have stairs and I was a SAHM so they were almost always within eyesight.
Isn't it amazing how those of us over 40 managed to survive childhood?
And others didn't. But good on you for being that smart baby who was lucky enough to not be involved in a serious car crash without a car seat, didn't tip their walker over, didn't contract some deadly disease, and survived when others did not.
Since chiluvr1228 was able to survive childhood, it makes perfect sense to not warn parents about some of these dangers and to not improve upon our standards of safety.
I didn't think they even existed anymore. They were never on my radar. I know they were a thing in the late 70s and early 80s. I have photos of me in a walker, and I've seen several of my husband in one. My MIL, who isn't really up-to-date on such things, kept talking about them when our almost 4 year old was a baby. How cool they were and I'm like "They're not really a thing anymore and haven't been in many years." She was quite surprised.
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