Taking baby to YHL - sling or buggy?

Good idea to take both! That way you can always park up the buggy somewhere if it gets too much. It's a "family" event not just for single child hating women with attitude, who luckily are very few and far between. If your baby's presence inconveniences others then let them deal with it. If you're going in to demos then use it as feed time!

Have a great time!
 
Fair enough batgirl, some parents are rude, just like some adults. So in the interest of fairness, could adults please not queue jump, push in front of my 7yr old & block her view, stand on our feet, barge through the aisles, stink of b.o. in crowded places, stand so close I have to smell your breath, ruin our enjoyment by wittering on about their horse to their mate all the way through, have their phone making a racket etc. Just common courtesy, & of course its no more rude & patronizing for me to lecture random single adults on good manners, for no reason, than it is to start telling a parent how they should behave.
 
I have to agree there! Any demos I've been to that there have also been children at, I've been more disturbed by adults chattering away to one on other than kids making noises.
 
I think she's implicating that the generation of arrogant adults who think children should be seen and not heard, need to get a grip and accept the fact that unless children are banned completely from an event that they'll expect to see them there!
 
OP if you have a none horsey husband why not leave the pair of them at home? They will have a much nicer day together doing other things than trailing round YHL with you.
 
littlelegs said:
Fair enough batgirl, some parents are rude, just like some adults. So in the interest of fairness, could adults please not queue jump, push in front of my 7yr old & block her view, stand on our feet, barge through the aisles, stink of b.o. in crowded places, stand so close I have to smell your breath, ruin our enjoyment by wittering on about their horse to their mate all the way through, have their phone making a racket etc. Just common courtesy, & of course its no more rude & patronizing for me to lecture random single adults on good manners, for no reason, than it is to start telling a parent how they should behave.
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Couldn't agree more. I must say that I was stunned by how obnoxious people were yesterday - I've never been walked into, cut up, shoulder slammed and generally pushed about as much as I was yesterday. Spent the entire day hopping out of the way of women with shopping on their minds and elbows at the ready!
 
EquestrianFairy said:
Well, when my child is born I will be attending horsey events, with a buggy at times and if my baby cries and annoys people then guess what- tough! If my buggy gets in the way then guess what- tough!
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and you're blown away that some of US appear selfish?

for the record i am a mother too, my daughter is 3yrs. If i had to take her to a public place where demonstrations either now or when she was little i DO think of other people who might not want to be run over by my buggy or hear my little one wailing if she's hungry or cold. That is why if its an event like YHL, i would strive not to take her at all every time but that's MY choice.


your attitude of 'if my baby's ruining other people's enjoyment then tough' says more about you and isnt shared by those of us who do care.
we ALL have to be tolerant to others in a public place both parents and non parents alike have equal rights to be respected.

you do parents a huge disservice and hardly surprising you then get comments such as you have on this thread where childless people dread children at horsey events as they think we'll let them run wild/scream and the parents dont give a stuff.
 
Whilst I think its tough luck if you are inconvenienced by a buggy, I agree its equally selfish to have a continually screaming or crying baby preventing everyone else from hearing what's going on. Not least because most of the time babies cry because they need something.
 
YHL - in my opinon is not a good place to be for folk with young ones, too far to walk, to crowded and too cold -but i agree Adults are a pain in the proverbial too.

I hate it when you have someone in a wheelchair who is tutted about, and i have even been witness to being moved for someone else to get to where they were parked - I know that person was me - and its frightening that suddenly your chair is moved and you look up and the person moving you has dissapeared and you cant see the group you are with.

Bags being bumped off your head, being backed into, etc

Fortunatly for me my wheelchair confinment was only for 9 months - but i really pity long term users - not because they are in a wheel chair but the crap you have to deal with
 
They are babies- they will cry, it's a fact of life.
If you dislike this rather obvious part of life then why would you ever leave your home?

I am a social worker and a part time child minder- I would never ever comment on such a thread telling someone not to take their OWN baby to an event because other people wouldn't want to be annoyed by the buggy or a baby crying.

The amount of times I've been annoyed by people texting whilst walking and slowing up a queue.. Chatting when I'm trying to pass, stepping on my feet, barging me out of the way etc at such events is in the thousands but I don't stand and condemn them for daring to attend. It's life, they annoy me, I take a deep breath and carry on.

For the poster who hopes they never bump into me and my offspring at an event- ditto.

Discriminating against someone because their child or their buggy 'annoys you' is beyond.
 
Selfish inconsiderate parents breed selfish inconsiderate children.
I'm not anti children at events. I'm anti parents who think because they have one of these things they take precedence over everyone else.
I am a mother, I love children, just can't stand a lot of parents these days.
 
Batgirl said:
Well equ fairy I hope I don't come across you at an event. A screaming child can ruin things for a lot of people, however I don't think people should not take them, I think they shoud.be courteous to others which includes not running me over, leaving the buggy in the way, stopibg in the middle of a busy through way to sort something minor out with your child and if it is screaming taking away from a demo.
Common courtesy, not kid/parent bashing.
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Your assuming my child cries and screams at all times? I agree with you, removing a crying child from a demo would be a sensible reponse and one most parents normally do.

cptrayes said:
So the offspring of Equestrian Fairy are more to add to the generation of spoiled children who think only of their own rights and no-one else's :(
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cattysmith said:
I think she's implicating that the generation of arrogant adults who think children should be seen and not heard, need to get a grip and accept the fact that unless children are banned completely from an event that they'll expect to see them there!
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Oh Cptrayes, you knew what i meant. Thankyou Cattysmith :D

lula said:
and you're blown away that some of US appear selfish?

your attitude of 'if my baby's ruining other people's enjoyment then tough' says more about you and isnt shared by those of us who do care.
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-Ahh did you take words out of my mouth, change them to put them back in again? Pretty sure i never said this

we ALL have to be tolerant to others in a public place both parents and non parents alike have equal rights to be respected.

-exactly!

you do parents a huge disservice and hardly surprising you then get comments such as you have on this thread where childless people dread children at horsey events as they think we'll let them run wild/scream and the parents dont give a stuff.
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-weird, im not a parent yet so not entirely sure how im doing them a disservice, however you kind of contradicted yourself here. You assumed (hate it when people do this) that i would allow a child to stand there and scream.. this is not what i wrote. I said if my baby cries and people dislike it- tough. I didnt say if my baby cries at a demo in the middle of a crowd i will stand there and let it wail for 30 mins so everyone sufers.

People are entitled to take a child or baby to an event, most people are aware of what to do if a baby cries and how to manovere a buggy out the way. It doesnt mean they are causing a problem or making your day any more unenjoyable- the same as someone who barges past you would.
 
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Equestrian Fairy it was me that said I didn't want to bump into you and if you read my post more carefully and got off your high horse you will see that I did not and have not at any point said that babies should not be at an event so please don't call me discriminatory. I would expect anyone who felt they had to take a phone call should remove them selves from earshot to not disrupt other people, it is, I repeat, common courtesy' not to disrupt others, crying baby, phone call, sudden need to burst into song, what ever.

I also quite agree with you about those who would text and slow and be annoying, say excuse me, they should also move the side or not do it.

The reason I do not want to bump into you is that you seem to have an extraordinarily aggressive attitude along the lines of 'I will do as I please and everyone can lump it' which does not create harmony, is rude and I don't like it, it has sod all to do with whether you have a baby with you.
 
Batgirl said:
Equestrian Fairy it was me that said I didn't want to bump into you and if you read my post more carefully and got off your high horse you will see that I did not and have not at any point said that babies should not be at an event so please don't call me discriminatory. I would expect anyone who felt they had to take a phone call should remove them selves from earshot to not disrupt other people, it is, I repeat, common courtesy' not to disrupt others, crying baby, phone call, sudden need to burst into song, what ever.

I also quite agree with you about those who would text and slow and be annoying, say excuse me, they should also move the side or not do it.

The reason I do not want to bump into you is that you seem to have an extraordinarily aggressive attitude along the lines of 'I will do as I please and everyone can lump it' which does not create harmony, is rude and I don't like it, it has sod all to do with whether you have a baby with you.
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You are reading my posts wrong- i never called you disciminatory personally.
-people are assuming again, never assume.
If my baby is crying and someone doesnt like then yes, that is a fact of life. I wasnt saying that i would stand there at a demo and let it wail for 30 mins.. that is an assumption.
I agree with you mainly, funnily enough.
 
Fair do's EF :)

I do think people are a bit mad to suggest that people should not attend, the very basis of discrimination!

I hope OP is having a good time whatever! :D
 
I don't know if this is still relevant, but please don't take a buggy!
It was hard enough just getting around all the people, let alone people with things!

Hope you have a good time :)
 
Supertrooper said:
Atlantis - were you in the carl morning demo, if so I was sat two rows behind you. The baby was fine, he was v cute :-)
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Yep sounds like us!! He is super cute and was having a nice time, just being a bit bored and loud at times and people were tuttung so my friend took him out. He wasn't annoying me at all and I was sat right next to him. He settled in the pushchair so she stood at the end and watched the rest of the demo.

In the afternoon he shredded the free horse deals mag we got. Was totally good sat on my knee although i had a numb leg as he's pretty chuncky and heavy!!

I wouldn't take my daughter to someing where she had to sit still at the mo. she's 18 months. She wouldn't be too loud I don't think but it would annoy me having to deal with her and entertain her so Imwouldn't get to see all I wanted. I can leave hernthough she had a nice day with daddy. My friend however is breast feeding so the options were take him or not go, and she wanted to go and babies are allowed... So we went!!

I'll tell her you thought he was cute.
 
Take a buggy if you want op, so what if people think they get in the way. Several massively overweight people were in my way, blocking the aisles, the ring, the stalls etc at an auction recently. I'm not posting recommending large people stay away, extend the same courtesy to buggy users. Why should someone carry a baby all day just so people aren't inconvenienced by prams?
 
Meh,I would have suggested buggie and sling, and just be aware of people.

Are we going to say now that tall people shouldnt go,as they may possibly sit in front of someone short and affect their enjoyment?

Jeez.

Not all babies cry 24/7 and if they do,you can take them out ;) And I'm kind of horrified at people telling her to leave her OH at home with baby,maybe they actually wanted to do something together? oh my goodness.

Hope you have/had a good day. :)
 
And I'm kind of horrified at people telling her to leave her OH at home with baby,maybe they actually wanted to do something together? oh my goodness.
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Find something more appropriate to spend time properly "together"? Let's face it, the non horsey husband is tagging along as a baby sitter while Mum shops, not so they can spend quality time as a couple.

My issue is not that the child the OP is asking about will annoy anyone else. It is that having spent an entire weekend at YHL two years ago, it seems to me to be completely inappropriate place for a baby of six months old. I would no more take a child of that age there than stand with it in any other cold and draughty barn in the middle of a field with thousands of people milling around in it.
 
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