Why do people feel they are allowed to judge parents and kids in that situation? I never thought I'd use one either but I tell you, taking my 18mth to the Melbourne Aquarium on a Playgroup Victoria play day, with my 6wk old DS, even with the back up of my ILs there, we still would have lost without the leash her amongst the other 12 million children there!
How dare someone judge until they know the whole situation??! That makes me so mad...
Anyway - it gets better. I found 18 to 24mths the hardest with my little bolter... Now that she is 2 and understands a bit more, I can use the threat like the PP said of "yes you can get out of the trolley and walk but you stay where mummy can see you or back in the trolley" or whatever.
She's also old enough to understand danger, so its the same in car parks/near roads - she MUST hold my hand or all sorts of bad things will happen.
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