Lilprecious - I agree - kids have to get used to different situations if you are going to be in them often (like me and libraries, fire stations, university buildings). I mentioned that I have an aversion to shopping centres and that's why I don't go to them much. Hopefully, due to that infrequency, he'll find it a novelty when we go and will be in stunned silence! The other things we do will teach him other valuable life lessons - plenty of time for that. (Hmmm, if DS, as a young baby, ever arc'd up about being in the buggy, I'd take him out and carry him! I know I haven't 'spoiled' him )