Hi Katy
I don't drive and get along fine by walking lots with the children, and using buses for longer journeys, or essential trips like preschool collections if the weather is totally manky.
I've never got on with buggy boards, but that's cos I'm quite tall and therefore have a long stride, so I keep stepping/tripping on them. They certainly seem to work fine for others. I have a T3 jogger which will carry 3, but they need to be littlies, or the whole thing is too heavy on slopes. For the most part, I remove the top seat, making a double, so up to 2 can ride while the other(s) walk.
A word of caution. As a non-driver, the bane of my life is wholly car-driving parents. Some are put off by me not driving (how could
any person
possibly not want to have a car!!!) and my choice not to learn to drive is obviously a clear sign of my lack of sanity, so they wouldn't let their lo's anywhere near such a loony.
The opposite side is those parents who sign up cos they think it is absolutely great that I take the time to walk everywhere and thereby give their lo's some much-needed exercise. It's much the same as those parents who believe they're paying their CM to sort out nappy training/weaning/fussy eating/all manner of L&D issues, so why on earth would they want to support it at home. It can be very difficult to overcome the whining challenge of a child whose previous experience of a 'walk' is to stagger from the family parking bay to the sliding doors of Tesco before their otherwise unused limbs atrophy completely. I'm convinced that if evolution was true, children would by now have grown wheels where our generation has legs.
But once that's overcome and they learn why goD in her infinite wisdom gave us those flexible appendages hanging from our hips, I think they learn a bigger life-lesson than how to hold a pencil in the official state-authorised manner and sit nicely for carpet-time indoctrination.
You can tell I prefer 'life-ready' as a goal to 'school-ready' can't you?
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