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Beige
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Sun, Oct 07 2018, 9:06 am
momof2+? wrote: | Am I the only one whose 5 1/2 year old son doesn’t walk for these lengths of time? He is a strong kid, loves sports and outdoors. Doesn’t like walking. Period.
35 minutes?! 4 miles?! Huh?
He complains about 4 blocks! |
No, you're not the only one. We sometimes eat out Friday night by relatives who live 35 minute walk away. Out comes the double stroller for said 5 year old to get a ride too.
We tried recently without it and was a disaster...
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Hashem_Yaazor
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Sun, Oct 07 2018, 11:14 am
Friday night when tired is worse than day time...and you have to train. My daughter has been walking 20 minutes (well 25 minutes at her pace) to my parents before 2 but the way back when she was still napping she was too tired so she would ride back...she's almost 3 now, though, and we never use a stroller for her anymore.
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amother
Beige
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Sun, Oct 07 2018, 11:24 am
A lot of it depends on the child, not necessarily on training. My two year old is happier to walk than my five year old.
Personally, something they will definitely outgrow eventually is not something I feel a need to push before they are ready.
We have an eruv, he's tired to walk at night - why not allow him to be a child?
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Teomima
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Sun, Oct 07 2018, 12:07 pm
Let me preface this by saying my whole family (aside from dh) are big walkers. And we live in Jerusalem with no car, so we have plenty of opportunities to walk.
From the age of 4-5, my kids would walk two hours to visit my parents on Shabbat, no stroller (they started walking that distance at age 3, but for the first two years they'd alternate between walking and taking rests in the stroller). When they first started walking that full distance, we'd take plenty of breaks. For the record, my parents didn't live 2 hours away, it was just 45 minutes on foot for an adult, but at their pace it would take 2 hours.
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amother
Bisque
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Sun, Oct 07 2018, 12:47 pm
It's not always the strength, sometimes the boredom, attention span of no patience to wait so long to get to gramma' s house. Bet you, if it was a fun place, they'd run without making chesbonos if they do have the energy to walk or not. Also depends if they are used to walking. If every time he's dumped into a stroller or car during week, it would be harder to make them walk on shabbos. I am saying these from my own experience because between my 2 boys whose age are close apart, one who is sick & weak will refuse stroller even if hes no energy to walk, because he has to show the world he's strong. The other one is highly energetic bh but zero patience for the long trek
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