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Old 07-25-2006, 01:23 PM   #36 (permalink)
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Slightly back to the topic: There was a mother with a boy about 4 years old in one of those sitting strollers thingies (umbrella strollers?) and she had hung lots of heavy bags on the handles - she had obviously been doing a lot of shopping that day - and the boy grew restless and curious and stood up from the stroller, so it tipped back. And the mother starts yelling at the boy for leaving the stroller when she had told him he must stay in it... I helped her set it up straight again to diffuse her tirade, but I feel sorry for the boy. He must have been pushed around in store after store, acting as a counterweight, instead of being allowed to walk around on his own two legs. He's going to grow up into another overweight kid.
It's a sad trend here with stressed parents pushing their kids around in strollers when they're really old enough to walk on their own, just because it's faster.
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