I learned a very important responsible parenting lesson today. This is concerning the stroller that we just bought for Pristine. She’s already 4.5 years old and yet this is the first stroller that we had. I figured that we needed one for our travel together (without daddy) next month.

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We took the new stroller, an umbrella type, simple stroller out when we went grocery shopping. It came in handy because when she got cranky towards lunch hour, we had her sit on the stroller instead carrying all 17 kilos of her. Oh I wished we had bought it years before!

Back to the lesson learned: seat belt is a must. The simple stroller had a simple seat belt attached to it and just like any moving vehicle, the child is supposed to be buckled up when seated. I, however, did NOT buckle her up in the stroller. We were just inside the grocery store, what could go wrong?

Then while pushing it around, the front right tire hit an edge of a rack. Pristine tumbled over!!

Luckily, she is older and was quick enough not to injure herself but she was so surprised to be thrown out. I felt so bad. How dare I subjected my daughter to this danger! She could have hit her head or something. I didn’t realize strollers are potential injury makers if not handled well.

From now on, I’ll strap her whenever she sits on it. In fact, I’ve asked her how to strap it on by herself in case mom forgets!