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That doesn't solve things for strollers... (Hint: you also need a car seat in the car for the baby.)

sottol 3y ago
See above, 95% of parents could use an on-body carrier. Baby in the carrier and older kids walk, they'll drag your speed down a bit but you'd probably not stroller for hours on end. Plus you don't need that huge SUV to fit that stroller and awkwardly park it in the entrance of restaurants and so on.
- hotnfresh 3y ago
  My wife and I always marvel at how much shit other parents carry. I don’t get it at all. Why make things harder than they need to be? We rarely used a stroller except when our kids were quite young and we were gonna do a lot of walking. Like at the zoo or something. Then, we’d use a cheap little light stroller, not one of those giant monster cargo ones most people have. On-body carriers were better in other cases. And when they could walk, we made them walk, frequently, to get them used to it, carrying less and less over time. If I went out solo with a young kid, I usually could fit everything I needed for 3-4 hours away in my pockets, easily. We had the usual giant diaper bag with the first kid but rarely used it, and I think we got rid of it before having more kids and didn’t replace it. There was just no need. IDK what all these parents are carrying around in their cargo-strollers and 20 gallon diaper bags. Kids can travel really light if you’re only gonna be out during the day.
  - hylaride 3y ago
    I live in a central city without a car. Our stroller was used for carrying groceries and getting our daughter to/from daycare in a reasonable amount of time. But our sole focus deciding on the stroller was good storage for grocery runs and otherwise compact enough to use on dense city sidewalks or lug down the subway. I too scratched my head when suburbanites brought out their huge strollers from their huge cars/SUVs and essentially lounged at their destinations.
    - hotnfresh 3y ago
      Big stroller as grocery-bag-holder for the walk home does make sense. Yeah, that’s a good example of when they’re not a bad call. > I too scratched my head when suburbanites brought out their huge strollers from their huge cars/SUVs and essentially lounged at their destinations. Yeah those are the biggest head-scratchers for sure. People at the friggin’ grocery store or park, which they drove to, with what seems to be several pounds of kid-supplies in huge strollers and bags. Like… you can go back to the car. You probably won’t need to, but if you do, it’s right there. Leave most of that in the car. You don’t need to carry 20 diapers or whatever in the store. One or two will do. I mean people can do whatever they want, of course, it just seemed like such a weird choice to us. Carrying so much stuff you almost certainly won’t need, so much that you need big, dedicated equipment for it. Seems like hard mode for no reason.
AYBABTME 3y ago
It doesn't need to solve everything for everyone if it succeeds in reducing road congestion by being accessible by 95% of the population. Also strollers are much easier with elevators, but they're not impossible to use with escalators and even can be reasonably lifted for stairs. We've done it plenty. Of course the stroller should be city-sized, not suburban-sized.

See above, 95% of parents could use an on-body carrier. Baby in the carrier and older kids walk, they'll drag your speed down a bit but you'd probably not stroller for hours on end. Plus you don't need that huge SUV to fit that stroller and awkwardly park it in the entrance of restaurants and so on.

hotnfresh 3y ago
My wife and I always marvel at how much shit other parents carry. I don’t get it at all. Why make things harder than they need to be? We rarely used a stroller except when our kids were quite young and we were gonna do a lot of walking. Like at the zoo or something. Then, we’d use a cheap little light stroller, not one of those giant monster cargo ones most people have. On-body carriers were better in other cases. And when they could walk, we made them walk, frequently, to get them used to it, carrying less and less over time. If I went out solo with a young kid, I usually could fit everything I needed for 3-4 hours away in my pockets, easily. We had the usual giant diaper bag with the first kid but rarely used it, and I think we got rid of it before having more kids and didn’t replace it. There was just no need. IDK what all these parents are carrying around in their cargo-strollers and 20 gallon diaper bags. Kids can travel really light if you’re only gonna be out during the day.
- hylaride 3y ago
  I live in a central city without a car. Our stroller was used for carrying groceries and getting our daughter to/from daycare in a reasonable amount of time. But our sole focus deciding on the stroller was good storage for grocery runs and otherwise compact enough to use on dense city sidewalks or lug down the subway. I too scratched my head when suburbanites brought out their huge strollers from their huge cars/SUVs and essentially lounged at their destinations.
  - hotnfresh 3y ago
    Big stroller as grocery-bag-holder for the walk home does make sense. Yeah, that’s a good example of when they’re not a bad call. > I too scratched my head when suburbanites brought out their huge strollers from their huge cars/SUVs and essentially lounged at their destinations. Yeah those are the biggest head-scratchers for sure. People at the friggin’ grocery store or park, which they drove to, with what seems to be several pounds of kid-supplies in huge strollers and bags. Like… you can go back to the car. You probably won’t need to, but if you do, it’s right there. Leave most of that in the car. You don’t need to carry 20 diapers or whatever in the store. One or two will do. I mean people can do whatever they want, of course, it just seemed like such a weird choice to us. Carrying so much stuff you almost certainly won’t need, so much that you need big, dedicated equipment for it. Seems like hard mode for no reason.

AYBABTME 3y ago

It doesn't need to solve everything for everyone if it succeeds in reducing road congestion by being accessible by 95% of the population. Also strollers are much easier with elevators, but they're not impossible to use with escalators and even can be reasonably lifted for stairs. We've done it plenty. Of course the stroller should be city-sized, not suburban-sized.