I do agree with a lot of points in this, about over indulging children (especially older children) in prams who are perfectly able to walk, it is something I find annoying also. I do think on the whole we over use prams massively. But I also think it is a bit over simplistic to say we shouldn't have strollers in our modern world. I mean I don't do physical work day-to-day like the women they are referring to, so I take my 6mo and 2.5yo for 6+ km walks in a pram for exercise. And I don't have the same rich natural environment in my neck of suburbia, so I have to roam further afield and cover more ground than my girls legs are able to get a similar experience.
I don't think just because a child is in a pram some times means they don't also walk a lot, have a lot of physical contact with their parents, have high level of physical activity, spend a lot of time in a sling etc etc. I think in many cases there is a correlation between the two, but it doesn't have to be that way. I think the pram is often the tool parents employ to parent they way they want to, but the tool itself is not the core of the concern.
Last edited by Sagres; April 15th, 2012 at 10:31 PM.
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