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I just got sling fever and ordered myself an Ellaroo (like Didymos - a long piece of gorgeous fabric that you expertly swish around and tie to become a perfect baby carrier). BUT I'm questioning myself... I know it's good for little babies to be carried around... but if I carry my 16 month old around, won't it be kind of boring for him? Shouldn't he be down and running around? But I'd love to have him contained sometimes, for example when I'm picking up both kids at daycare and he runs straight into the preschool bathroom and swishes his hands around in the little toilet... or when my dd wants to go for a walk and we actually want to walk not chase backwards and forwards... or when he's whiny around the house.
Anyway I've been reading all this sling propaganda about how you should basically carry little babies all day, nursing them on demand, and how the years up to their 3rd birthday are crucial to brain development and wearing them helps with this, but it seems weird that carrying a little person who knows how to walk is good for them. Yes for when you're actually transporting them, eg on a walk, or in a store, but what about more extended carrying? since if you're going to spend 5 minutes tying them to you or getting them in a backpack, you probably need to have them on for a while.
What do you all think? Do any of you carry your toddlers around?
Anyway I've been reading all this sling propaganda about how you should basically carry little babies all day, nursing them on demand, and how the years up to their 3rd birthday are crucial to brain development and wearing them helps with this, but it seems weird that carrying a little person who knows how to walk is good for them. Yes for when you're actually transporting them, eg on a walk, or in a store, but what about more extended carrying? since if you're going to spend 5 minutes tying them to you or getting them in a backpack, you probably need to have them on for a while.
What do you all think? Do any of you carry your toddlers around?