Toddler

If people think using a stoller is lazy, I'm screwed! My 2 year old weighs 37 pounds so if we are out an about and all of the sudden is "good walking legs" stop working, guess who's carrying him- and he doesn't settle for a piggy back ride. He wants to be held in the front so he can rest his head on my shoulder. Never mind the fact that I am 4.5 months pregnant too, and probably should ease up on some of that! So yeah, add me to the lazy mom list. I'll save my back.

its always a lose-lose situation with these people, stroller=lazy, but if we let them walk and they melt down than we are bad mothers, how dare we not have psychic ability to know when our child is going to melt down and make ourselves scarse so that those people who called us lazy can enjoy their day?

yes i use a stroller, lately i use it less, my son refuses to sit in it he wants to walk, when he gets tired he wants to be help, which is in no way shape or form hapening, im 5'0, 130 pounds and hes a 31 pound toddler who when carried just lets go of his whole body and slumps down.

I have twin boys, one of whom has special needs.  They are 2 1/2 yrs old and, while I don't use the stroller all the time, I still use it when we go out to places like malls or the doctor's office.  It's a matter of safety!  As for being lazy - do you know how heavy my double stroller is (about 30 lbs)!  Add another 60 lbs of kid and their diaper bags and my purse, and I've got 100 lbs to push around!  Definitely NOT for the lazy!

I really don't care if someone thinks it's lazy to use a stroller. My 4 yr old still hops on the sit n stand double stroller when we go somewhere with a lot of walking. It keeps my kids safe, comfortable, and happy. My kids are very well behaved and don't throw tantrums in public, so I must be doing something right.

I honestly had no idea of this "battle."

I use a sling with my 7 month old, but I've used a stroller too.  I simply found that a sling was easier for me to maneuver around tight spaces (like through the racks at clothing stores).  I love it.

Though I prefer a sling (right now, at least), I would never be so sanctimonious as to say that I'm BETTER, or that other parents are lazy!  That's absurd!  What about jogging strollers?

I swear, some people. . .in the grand scheme of things, it really doesn't matter.  Talk about polarizing a non-issue!  Some women are really grasping at straws for some "action." 

When my daughter was younger, I used a sling...but she is 30 lbs now and there is no way I could carry her around in it!  I have degenerative joint disease in my lower back so carrying kids for any length of time isn't going to happen.  My almost 4 year old still likes to ride in the stroller at times, and I let him.

I too have almost 100lbs of kids/stroller/etc that I'm pushing around, so it's a great workout.

To each their own, but I'm not a lazy mother because I use a stroller.

I think the idea is women who's child wants to walk (but perhaps significantly slower than mom) but the mother makes them sit in a stroller for the ease. Still dumb, but that's my guess on logic there.

My four year old daughter has low muscle tone and fatigues very easily, so we are in the process of getting her a special needs stroller. Most days she can't make the circle walk around our neighborhood, which is only a few blocks, and we like to take the foot ferry into Seattle and walk to Pike's Place and the Pacific Science Center. She's outgrowing her normal strollers and we are ending up carrying her everywhere (which people also glare at me for!). You really can't win though. We stopped in the library at noon the other day and my daughter was in her PJs, she'd been at the hospital getting a scope (they had to put her under, breathing tube and all) since 7am (got up at 5). I wanted her to have some new books and movies to read since she was supposed to stay in bed for the rest of the day. You should have seen the glares the other mothers gave me.. people are just soo judgemental.

....I didn't even know there was a sling vs stroller war.......

Don't we have better things to do as mother's then fight over what we carry our children in?

I have a Sit N Stand stroller.  WHen I walk my son to and from school, I put my baby in the front and my son, who is almost 6, can sit on the platform in the back if he wants.  Why?  Well first off, the road to his school has no sidewalk, and it's a very steep hill.  With my hip problems, walking too SLOW actually causes me physically pain on the hill and we're often working with a time limit as well.  When it's raining (as it's apt to do in Washington) he can be under the rain cover.

And yet I've been told he's too old.  Obviously he's not if we still use it!  What sense does it make to ditch the stroller, make him walk in the road, in the rain, and fight over how fast he walks or deal with hurting... just because people deem him "too old" to sit in the back of a Sit N Stand?

If wanting to keep my 7mo. old and 2 1/2 yr. old safe while transporting them, not wanting to make my 2 yr. old walk everywhere (while she can't keep up), pushing around half my body weight or more,and keeping my sanity, makes me lazy. So be it.

When you have small children that are different ages you bet a stroller can be a lifesaver in certain situations. I have a double stroller, which i use to take the kids to the park(a few blocks down) in the afternoons. I use it when we go to the mall, and special events that involve a lot of walking. I also have a sling that I use to carry my 7mo. old in. Like going on a quick trip to the store, dd sits in the cart and i carry baby. Both are helpful and useful, that's why they are made and bought. I don't think people should be limited to using one or the other or that one is better than the other. I love both and use them when it makes my job easier.