# Four-year olds in strollers?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-olds-in-strollers/423519
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 22, 2007, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-olds-in-strollers/423519 "2007-10-22T00:33:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2007, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-olds-in-strollers/423519/61 "2007-10-23T11:59:11Z")
[QUOTE=Aspidistra]
Of course, that depends on it actually _being_ a couple of hours between breaks. When the frequency is more like “every hour in the morning, increasing to every half-hour after about 2pm” then it’s possible that a different decision wins the “most easy option for Mum” stakes.
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My son didn’t potty trained until 3 1/2. Not that we weren’t trying before then, but he wasn’t “ready” - he did change his own pullups beginning about two, which made him in diapers way easier than when he did decide to start using a toilet, because then I had to take him potty when he needed it. And then I went through a two year cycle (with two kids) of having to check out every public bathroom in a three state radius - one of them MIGHT be different!
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### Author:  [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-olds-in-strollers/423519/62 "2007-10-23T15:17:17Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot]
So yesterday I went out and got a Kid Leash. Terrible parenting, I know.
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Yeah, that’s what I used to think. Then I met my nephew. He’s 16 now, and in my opinion, a Teenager Leash would not be a bad idea.
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### Author:  [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2007, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-olds-in-strollers/423519/63 "2007-10-24T00:41:43Z")
I bring my four year old in a stroller when I have to run into NYC. The stroller provides her with a much needed seat on a crowded train. It also allows me to run down streets really fast. I have to get places quickly and I know she can’t keep up. A stroller also allows me to keep an eye on her. In a very crowded place like Manhattan she could easily get lost.
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