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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our daycare has the toddlers outside for two 45 minute sessions a day.

Where are you guys getting four hours a day?!  Even on weekends my two and a half year old wants to come inside from our yard at around an hour.  [/quote]

Same.  These are suburban SAHMs with the “four hours” or those with onlies.  Impossible.  [/quote]

Come on people.  This isn definitely possible.  1.5 hrs taking walks in a ride along stroller spread out throughout the day to encompass errands (get a ride along stroller so toddler can stand when tired), 2 hours, sometimes more in nearby parks (AM and PM session, longer if the water play at the nearby water feature at a park was active, both kids loved that.  Ate lunch outside at the park before nap.  Sometimes fed them dinner outside too just sitting on the porch steps while people watching...we didn’t have a yard but if you do it’s much easier to spend time outside.  My friend kept her baby in a play yard in her backyard that had a little tent over it while her other kid played.  [/quote]

Nope.  Simply not possible with two kids (2.5 and 8 month old).  I don’t want either strapped in a stroller for 1.5 a day nor do I want to force 2.5 yr old to “sit on a stoop” in front of a busy street (if we had a stoop).

My kids are active and want out of the stroller.  And the baby will not sleep on the stroller.  We get an hour to run and play in a park every morning - sometimes more - and a quick walk in the afternoon.  2 hours max.  No yard, not outdoor space.

Stop trying to guilt Mother’s with this completely arbitrary “4 hours”.  [/quote]

I think you need to open your mind and learn that there is a difference between “not possible” and “not possible for me because it doesn’t suit my preferences.”   Your baby doesn’t sleep in the stroller, that’s specific to your babies.  Plenty of babies do sleep in the stroller and plenty of moms wear their babies.  No one is setting an arbitrary 4 hours but my kids would be miserable if they were indoors all day.  They’re active and love being out in nature and sunshine, and the days they are out a lot they definitely sleep all day. [/quote]

She is saying, “not possible for me” because of her location as well as the ages and temperaments of her children.

Let it go, PP.  We’re all doing the best we can.  [/quote]

No she’s said it’s  “not possible” multiple times as if people with a lifestyle different to hers must be lying.   And it seems to me the most privileged of statements that kids can’t go out when it’s hot or sunny or stay in nature. What do you think 99 percent of the kids in the world do all day? [/quote]

And you wrote “come on.  It’s definitely possible”.   I read this entire thread and the four hours a day posters assume everyone has kids like theirs and a location like theirs.

And what 99% of the world does (wrong, btw) isn’t applicable if you have very active kids who hate sitting in the stroller and you live in an urban area.  [/quote]

There’s a difference between saying “it’s possible” and saying all kids are alike and weirdly anti-stroller.  Kids in urban areas spend time outside.  In fact sometimes more than their suburban counterparts, because they more typically live in smaller apartments where there isn’t a lot of living space so their parents are more incentivized to get out of the house.[/quote]

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