Lilprecious, you don't need to clarify anything with me - you do your thing, I do mine (I'm my own kid's parent, and same with you). I wasn't criticising, you don't owe me any explanations. I hope we can continue to share our anecdotes here, though! What I was thinking, actually, re: the buggy thing, is that other parents must think I am spoiling DS. In fact, when he's in his carrier, I get told I'm spoiling him. So, if you're child is contented, you get criticised for spoiling, when your child is having a tanty then the child must also be spoiled (according to my colleague who has no kids!) - you can't win out in public! That's why you just gotta cut out the unimportant bits, and when it comes to our kids, the unimportant bits are other people's criticisms, or perceptions thereof. We'd be a lot more relaxed if we did that.
Maybe I'm just a rebel, but I do like to take my child and dog wherever I can get away with! They're really quite portable - at 5 months I was able to take DS to an entire evening session film at the cinema...he woke and fed and I didn't have to leave the cinema - I was pretty impressed with that. I'm sure that's one place lots of people prefer to be 'kid free', but I knew he was up for it, so I just did it in the absence of a rule contraindicating children! Maybe DS is just a poster boy and I got lucky. Who knows.