“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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Taking a kid to a pediatrician appointment is a necessary evil for sure-but I even hated to do that because the waiting area-even on base-was usually a madhouse.
I was only able to have the one cub, but everyone else in the family has 2 or more-one of my aunts had 12, and 7 is the overall average. There were always enough relatives nearby to watch kids-typical large American Latino family and all that...