Need advice on helping little ones being able to see...

[2iowaprincesses]

We are leaving for Disney is just a few short days....we have a 14 mo old and a 2 mo old. My question is when you are at parades and shows(not the ones with seating...but standing outside) how do you help your little ones to see? Is it rude for them to be on daddy's sholders??

 

[Suzanna1973]

The best thing to do is find a spot on the front edge of the sidewalk and sit for about an hour to hour/half before the parade. That way you are in front and your kids can see the entire parade. Because frankly I think it is rude to put your kids on daddy's shoulders, it ruins the view for the person behind daddy.

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

I have a mixed view on this. DD always travels around on Daddy's shoulders (thank god it's him...not me). My vote is that if you are standing (with nobody behind you yet) and have the little one on his shoulders...that's okay. If someone chooses to stand behind them...that's their fault. However, if there is already a crowd, yes, I agree that you shouldn't pick them up at that point.

 

[SilverMickey]

For the parades we try to get their early and send one adult off for snacks /late lunch/early supper and make it picnic time. I think a child on your shoulders could spoil it for anyone behind you. Even adullts want to see the parade and a kid on the shoulders sure would interfere with almost anyones viewing. We let our little ones hang out in the stroller and when parade time came moved the stroller out and made more room. a family of teens came by just as the parade was getting to us and I had to ask the mom to please remove the kids as my young children had waited in the front row for almost an hour. She called me a loser and didnt budge. A CM that we had be-friended helped us out and had them moved.

Well that went a little off subject... so back again. Plan ahead and use it as a rest/food time and maybe have a little something for the older one to do. Color, dolls, ect...

Have an awsome trip!

 

[LilGMom]

If you really want to watch the parades I would suggest getting a spot early and sit on the curb. IMHO putting a child on shoulders pretty much ruins it for others around you, even if they aren't directly behind the child that is on the shoulders. When our kids were under 2 we used a backpack carrier which put their head pretty much even with our own heads so that they could see but we weren't blocking anyone's view. If we stop to watch a parade now (and didn't plan enough to sit on the curb) we make sure that we are standing either up against a building or against a fence and then hoist the kids up on our shoulders.

Honestly though the 2 month old will have no clue about what is going on in a parade so I imagine that one will be cradled in your arms, in a carrier or in a stroller.

 

[2iowaprincesses]

thanks that was kind of my thought too. i'm not worried about the 2 mo old...you're right she won't care!

 

[DevilDuckie]

If you put a child on your shoulders you should do what my 6'4" husband does- stand all the way in the back. Otherwise it is really rude and unfair to all the other people who want to see.