Travel Systems

At work, we have a lot of travel systems. You know ... the stroller/infant seat combos. I think we have like 6, maybe 7, different ones.

Anyway ... the number of travel systems we have has nothing to do with this post.

In a regular shift at work, I see a lot of people pushing their baby around in a travel system. Often they have a little baby in there ... brand new, one month, two months old ... but other times ... they have an older baby in there -- we're talkin' seven, eight ... even nine months old.

I don't get it.

I understand the convenience of the travel systems ... that you can just click the carseat out of the car when your baby is sleeping, and just click them in the stroller, but ... to do that ALL the time just seems silly to me! A baby who's old enough to sit up on their own does not want to be strapped down in a laying position when they're going to be stuck that way for an hour or more while their parents shop! It just seems cruel to me! I don't think that lots of first-timers realize that you CAN use your stroller without the infant seat, even if your baby still has to ride in said infant seat in the car. The stroller DOES have a five-point harness, or whatever it's called, and it's just as safe for them to ride in -- and just as easy for them to sleep in, for that matter -- as the infant seat itself.

So silly ... but it really bugs me!

Sometimes, when I'm talking to parents and they say the baby riding in the travel system is 8 or 9 months, I just want to say "You know ... he'd probably be perfectly happy riding in just the stroller."

Do you think they'd find it rude? Hm ...