I’ve never bought into that-as a stay-at-home mom when the cub was little my husband was often stationed elsewhere, so we had to live in the city, which we hated-I did not take my precious cub in public because I did not want her exposed to random people and their germs-I left her with a neighbor or my aunt while I drove to the store. When she was 2, I was working fulltime and we shared an in-home babysitter with one of my cousins who lived down the street-I went to the store on the way home from work.
My cub didn’t go out in the general public until she was well over 3, able to walk around without getting stepped on, polite, well behaved. I think it is inconsiderate of parents to bring little kids on shopping trips-aside from germ exposure, they are most surely not comfortable trotting through a forest of huge grownups on short little legs, perched in a cart surrounded by strangers, etc. I didn’t expose my cub to any of that, but that is just me...
“My cub didn’t go out in the general public until she was well over 3, able to walk around without getting stepped on, polite, well behaved. I think it is inconsiderate of parents to bring little kids on shopping trips-aside from germ exposure, they are most surely not comfortable trotting through a forest of huge grownups on short little legs, perched in a cart surrounded by strangers, etc. I didn’t expose my cub to any of that, but that is just me...”
My husband also traveled and sometimes I HAD to get to a CVS or supermarket or doctor appointment and I had to take the five of them with me.
They survived.
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