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Anonymous
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As we walk through the mall, grocery, park, whatever I point at all the parents with young babies and children and get to judge their parenting as much as I can showing him what I think is safe, nice, bad, ugly, not nice, rude and so on.
Wow really? I mean we all judge but really??? You have no experience with a child...Do you really think your child is going to conform to all your safety regulations? What are you going to do when your child refuses to be restrained in a shopping cart and throws a back arching, bloody murder crying fit when you try to buckle them up? What about when the elevators are broken at a mall or a metro and it’s not exactly possible to take him or her out and carry the stroller? Or when you child rather go down a slide head first? You just wait until you have your child because not everything goes as planned. Hopefully you will be able to ignore the same snarky remarks you dish out. |
Anonymous
Am I the only one who read this?????
And it's laughable how you all feel so entitled to call OP names for judging people when you're doing the exact same thing here. You read a couple of paragraphs and you feel entitled to pass judgment and even "counsel" her re the marital problems you *think* she has. I have to just LOL here! |
Anonymous
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I can be as nasty as any DCUM poster but I'm still pretty surprised by the posts so far. Strollers should never go on escalators. It's dangerous. To the extent that urbanites feel that they sometimes have no other choice, that's a different story. Sometime you have to go with the flow--but it doesn't mean it's "ok" or "safe". It's not the worst thing to do but I'm glad that OP will be avoiding it and is educating her DH about it.
Disgusting that someone would blame OP for causing mishap by having criticized. Even if it did fluster the mother, life is flustering and if one comment makes her back up an escalator full of people then that just shows she really shouldn't be on one with a stroller. |
Anonymous
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http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/5111.html
It is really easy for strollers to flip and the edges of the steps are very sharp. Totally dangerous when moving normally and escalators sometimes stop without warnng. Soft shoes like crocs or flip flops are also really dangerous, they can get caught on the sides or the edge at the top or the bottom. I've seen escalator accidents and if you had, you would also be wary. If you need to use an escalator with a stroller, take the child out and ask an attendant or other passenger to carry the folded stroller for you. Having a baby carrier can also be really helpful. If you are holding the child and the stroller yourself you don't have a free hand to hold on. You can get really hurt falling into the steps on an up escalator, and I don't even want to think of the damage of falling down a steep metro escalator. |
Anonymous
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I don't think anyone disagrees with OP that this is a dangerous practice.
Perhaps, if OP had mentioned that she noticed this the other day and left out the narration of her teaching points with DH, people would have chimed in in agreement. Instead, she paints herself as a pain in A$$ twit. She got what she asked for. Also, if she were concerned about safety, OP could have kindly offered to help instead of essentially waiting for the other mom to have an accident. |
Anonymous
| When DS was about 4 months old we went on a plane trip to the midwest. For some reason DH and I were in a rush and had to split up and meet at the gate. DH had DS in the Bjorn and I had the empty stroller with me. I was running through the airport with it, haphazardly clamoring up and down escalators - it didn't occur to me that people would think I had a baby in the stroller until I saw all their horrified faces. Anyway. Just a funny story. |
Anonymous
Well, if OP wants an answer to a question, she should learn to just ask the question, "Do you think it is unsafe to take a stroller up the escalator" not preface it with 2 paragraphs of this weird way she walks around telling her husband "No, No!" and being proud of her ability as a non-parent to judge other peole's parenting skills! I mean, come on, this post was just crying out to get derailed. |
Anonymous
If I have to choose between taking a stroller up an escalator riding an a shuttle, without a car seat, that may or may not come in the next 30 minutes, and will be driven by one of those crack Metro employees, I'll opt for the escalator every time, and be confident that I made the safer choice. |
Anonymous
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It's actually pretty common in this area. I try not to do it and just like you, I thought I would never since it is dangerous. However, when you are out somewhere and the elevator is broken, you do what you need to do. I've only done it once and I wasn't happy about it, but guilty. I find that a lot of things we used to say we would never do, we do out of desperation or convenience, such as flying. Husband vowed never to fly with babies. Guess what we did when our baby was just 15 weeks old, yup, we flew...
Your husband sounds like he has as much experience with babies as mine did. One thing I did for my husband, which I think helped him feel more at ease was sign him up for a few courses so he knows some of the basics. Holy Cross offers a Daddy course: http://holycross.drsreferralservice.com/p-308-becoming-a-father-its-more-than-cigars.aspx We also took their CPR course together. Best of luck OP! |
Anonymous
What she said!! In Europe there are instructions for safe stroller use on Escalators posted on the escalators. I'd never choose the escalator if the elevator is working, but if it is a choice between taking my child out of the stroller and carrying the child and stroller on the escalator or keeping the child in the stroller, I'm keeping the child in the stroller. I'm too lazy to look up the stats now, but we did look it up after some nut job started screaming at us on metro. There are very, very few injuries of children in strollers on escalators. The much more likely injury is to a child who is not in a stroller. Obviously, dangling your stroller in front of you on a down escalator is idiotic -- and I see is all the time -- but getting your self below the stroller, whether up or down, creates a relatively safe environment. And, it is WAAAAY safer than putting your baby in the car and driving to and from the mall. If the Sancimommy OP wants to teacher her DH baby safety lessons she can start there. |
Anonymous
But you will ride the train with the same numb-skulled-texting-while-driving train operators. Where your child (again) has no carseat. |
Anonymous
First, this didn't happen. Second, Jesus people are irrationally afraid of everything in this day and age. Next you'll tell us you were screaming at a stranger not to take the escalator while wearing flip-flops, and after she told you to mind your own business, she was sucked down into the machinery, never to be seen again. |
Anonymous
| Oh, BTW, our 3.5 y/o DD rides the escalator while holding my hand. Call Family Services!!! |
Anonymous
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Am I the only one who imagines that OP was beyond thrilled that the stroller got caught, by way of validating her point to this "horrible" mother and OP's DH?
OP: strollers on escalators are not ideal, but sometimes one has no choice or is just beyond exhausted or frustrated or harried and is just trying to get through another day. All I can say is that I hope you get so much unsolicited advice after your kid comes that you have some glimmer of the fact that smugness--especially from people with no kids--is just plan gross. |
Anonymous
Child is way safer on the train than on a shuttle, even if there is an accident. People you really need to get a grip on reality. |