how odd?or is it?

Better link www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4146470/The-mothers-carry-four-year-olds.html

It is a trend! according to the Daily Mail (???)

Article in DMhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4146470/The-mothers-carry-four-year-olds.html

Note high heels on woman in photo "Lauren carries her son Dilon" - she also appears to be pregnant again so is she asking for trouble?

Perhaps the children have some health problem which means they are not able to walk the distance home without being overtired, and the mothers don't have cars?

I agree it seems very bad for the backs of those mothers, and if it was necessary then a small wheelchair would be better.

Seems strange to me. I can't understand the mothers who immediately take the school bag(s) from their child(ren) and carry it/them. How will the children ever learn to take responsibility for their own stuff if they just hand it over as soon as they come out of school? This is not just little P1s who have just started (and don't have more than a reading book in their bags anyway) but much older primary school children as well. My DC and DGC jolly well carried/carry their own bags!

Having said that, I have to admit that our youngest DC was in a buggy for much longer than the others because it was so handy for carrying the shopping

That's very odd. Will they be doing it when thay are 12 or 16? I used to work in HR and once had a mother on the phone to ask if she could come to the interview with her offspring. I expect she would also have come to work with him and done the job too!

Perhaps they are in training for a round the world backpacking trip?

My first thought was that it would not be good for the mother's back. I agree gillybob It was a struggle to get a child over two back into a pram if necessary.
There may be a reason for this but nothing springs to mind.

Very strange, wonder if it has been discussed on MN. It may be a new trend. It is environmentally friendly but at what cost to the mother's back.
I have just had another thought, they may not be the mothers but the nanny or au pair.

Strange indeed.
Regarding older 3/5 yr old children in buggies. Our youngest DGS was in a buggie at that age for walking any distance due to health issues.

My back aches just thinking about it.

It can't be healthy, lugging a child that size around every day!

ive never seen this before on such a large child, but to see two in the same reception class seemed bizarre. like gillybob, ive had to wrestle with both my GC to keep them in a pushchair once they could walk more than 100 yards.

I suppose it’s a bit like just giving them a piggyback?

No, I haven’t seen that yet. I was going to say that the children should be walking, but then had a flashback to myself trudging home carrying an exhausted DS in the very early days of school. He started Reception the week he turned 4 and obviously gave it his all!

How very peculiar

Don't the poor children have legs? Another ridiculous example of over mothering - or is it to save the parent having to talk to the child so that the mother can concentrate on her phone?

It seems ridiculous to me.

Interesting! I am often surprised to see big kids in buggies but slings?
My DH caught the bus across town to school when he was 5, alone. Changed days.
See if it is still happening later in the term.

Very odd indeed petunia although I do sometimes see very big children climbing in and out of buggies. I had to fight to get my DGC to go in one after about 2. Walking anywhere took forever .