Kids pushing stroller on shabbos?

Raisin

Mon, Dec 07 2015, 3:28 pm

9 is a stretch to be below the age of chinuch. I have heard of a very small child being able to carry for themselves, but I would think that applies only up to age 3 or 4.

amother

Natural

Mon, Dec 07 2015, 6:36 pm

Scrabble123 wrote:

They are carrying for themselves (I.e. a snack or toy) and are below the age of chinuch which is considered acceptable even where there is no eiruv.

As for Bobov "carrying" it is because their community acknowledges that there is a eiruv in BP, but still do not carry. They therefore allow children to carry for themselves or even to push a carriage up until age 9 because they accept that there is an actual eiruv there.

They allowed it even before there was an eruv.
The eruv is relatively recent, -less than twenty years old.
My husband's family is Bobov and they all grew up without the eruv and still carried until age nine.

My parents are not Bobov, but I had many Bobover neighbors and I also remember them carrying before the eruv.