Re: Going rate for 2nd hand Mclaren Duette

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> Do you think it will fit a 35lb 3yr4mth old?? Then again looking

at the ages of your children has Georgi outgrown it

Reading these messages again this slightly baffles me though. DD at 2

years 11 months hardly ever sits in the buggy anymore unless we are

walking miles (the only reason I hold onto the double buggy). Are you

guys all big walkers? Or am I really terrible making DD walk

everywhere? She likes it - or she stands on the buggyboard - but I

thought she'd really grown out of being pushed around?

Karina

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I think it depends very much on the child, Karina. DD2, at 1 years 9 months

will happily walk much further than DS, who's 3. We do quite a lot of

walking, now we have too many children for climbing/cycling and we generally

take one backpack type carrier (a Karrimor - we decided early on we'd rather

go for a specialist backpack maker than a baby manufacturer one, iyswim -

the approach to comfort is slightly different from the carrier's p.o.v, but

seems to make little difference to the babe) and my Happy Baby Sling. DS

usually wants a piggyback after about half an hour and then is up and down

for the rest of the walk (the Happy Baby Sling is brilliant at supporting

him on my back), whereas DD2 will generally be reluctant to be put in the

backpack even on the return leg. She's walked about a mile up the South

West Coastal path - all uphill - and about 2/3 of the way up Mam Tor.

Local shopping type walking is slightly different. They swap in and out of

the buggy (I only take a single with me these days) and the one walking is

supposed to hold on to the buggy frame. I don't have a buggy board, as we

don't seem to have had a use for one so far. I do have one of those wrist

strap things, though - invaluable, especially on busy roads!

Vicki Portman

http://www.plushpants.co.uk

Re: Going rate for 2nd hand Mclaren Duette

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> > Do you think it will fit a 35lb 3yr4mth old?? Then again looking

> at the ages of your children has Georgi outgrown it

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> Reading these messages again this slightly baffles me though. DD at 2

> years 11 months hardly ever sits in the buggy anymore unless we are

> walking miles (the only reason I hold onto the double buggy). Are you

> guys all big walkers? Or am I really terrible making DD walk

> everywhere? She likes it - or she stands on the buggyboard - but I

> thought she'd really grown out of being pushed around?

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> Karina

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Karina wrote

Or am I really terrible making DD walk

> > everywhere? She likes it - or she stands on the buggyboard - but I

> > thought she'd really grown out of being pushed around?

> >>>>>>>>>>>

I agree it depends on the age of the child. DS1 was 21 months when

DS2 was born and I had a Mammas and Pappas tandem which was

wonderful. We have really narrow paths so it fitted down fine, a

double buggy style would have had me walking in the dog poo!

DS1 was happy to be pushed but I think DS2 walked everywhere from

about 1 year old. He refused to be put in a pushchair, and now age 6

won't walk if he could run.

DS3 is completely the opposite, he refuses to walk anywhere, he will

run around the garden quite happily but walk to the shops or school -

forget it. In fact he walked a little on Saturday when I was

shopping in Hull and I was amazed. Thats why I bought a bigger

pushchair because he used it so much and was too fat for his other

one.

Trisha

SAHM to 3 boys