Nah, I'm with you Lenny. Sometimes between my bolter (DS) and anything else I'm carrying, DD just holds onto my pocket ot cardigan or whatever she can. She's really good like that, but DS is such a lunatic, I wouldn't even entertain it with him.

My sister however is happy to let her toddlers run anywhere, including car arks, and was happy for her 5th to walk to school on his own around the block (roads, but no busy ones to cross, but alongside a main road).