Stroller parking at theme parks, restaurants, and parks

Stroller parking at theme parks, restaurants, and parks. Challenges faced and what parents can do.

Stroller-friendly restaurants: Park your pram where you dine

This is something that parents in most countries would love to have, designated spaces for parking strollers in restaurants.

City parents are always on the go most of the time, and most of the time you would be going around with your little one in the stroller. And while you’re out, if you decide to grab a bite to eat, it can be tough to find places that are more accepting of the stroller.

Luckily, there are some stroller-friendly restaurants that let you park your set of wheels at the table (just make sure the stroller doesn’t block servers from walking to and from tables).

Some restaurants have designated stroller parking areas (stroller corral) where you could park your stroller (even the multi-child kind). In some places where space is tight, they will arrange for stroller storage.

A shopping centre in Singapore has designated parking space for a stroller, near to where you dine.

Bukit Panjang Hawker Centre has designated spaces for prams that makes it easy for families to enjoy a meal together.

This is one of the “universal design” features – aimed at making buildings and spaces friendly for all users – highlighted in a new guide by the Building and Construction Authority.

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Taking stroller to a place of worship (religious building)

Dos & Dont’s when taking a stroller to a ‘Religious’ building, such as church, synagogue, or temple.

Want to know if a particular religious place (synagogue, church) is declining or thriving, simply count the number of strollers.

The more strollers parked outside the sacred building, the brighter that synagogue’s future will be. In other words, every stroller carries not just a person, but also the hopes and dreams of the entire congregation.

While communities should welcome strollers and the newest members who ride in them, worship places should consider establishing some simple stroller-related guidelines – sensible rules to govern the pushing of the pampered.

Here’s how to make the strollers at places of worship, which is usually filled with congestion, more manageable?

• For starters, do not park your stroller directly in front of the synagogue’s entrance. When strollers block the doors, it creates an evacuation hazard. For example, if the synagogue announces at the end of the service that the kiddush is “sponsored by the shul” (which means the kiddush likely will be incredibly underwhelming), there will be a massive stampede exiting the building that will destroy anything in its path. So, if your stroller is part of a baby blockade near the doorway, kiss it goodbye. (For this reason, do not leave your kids sleeping in their strollers or wrap them in sufficient and breathable bubble wrap.)
• When it comes to purchasing a stroller, do not succumb to peer pressure. In other words, do not purchase the exact same stroller as your friends. When everyone buys the identical make and model, it only exacerbates the post-synagogue chaos. (Of course, if your child is acting like a total kvetch, you may secretly be hoping that someone mistakenly takes home your stroller and its cantankerous contents.)
• When buying a stroller, think outside the box and go with something unique, even if it means you will be socially shunned. But do not go overboard just to prove a point. Do not pack your infant in a rolling suitcase. Do not cart your kid around in a wheelbarrow. Do not strap your child to a skateboard. Do not force your newborn to rollerblade. These are extreme and ill-advised alternatives so stick with a parentally and rabbinically approved stroller and stay within your wheelhouse, so to speak.
• Can we all agree that when a child reaches a certain age, it is no longer appropriate for that child to ride in a stroller? For example, if your child can scale Masada, needs a shave or has a driver’s license, then enough with the stroller. I actually believe that if some overly-protective parents had their druthers, they would continue stroller-ing their kids at least up to the child’s bar or bat mitzvah. This can be incredibly humiliating and debilitating the child and some studies show that children who are overly-strollered are ten times more likely to become a serial killer and twenty times more likely to act like a total nudnik.

Bottom line: Always remove your child before folding your stroller. Source: clevelandjewishnews

New Zealand Cricket allow prams, strollers at Cricket Venues

Prams and strollers will now be welcome at New Zealand cricket venues for the rest of the summer (earlier, New Zealand Cricket policy banned prams at cricket venues).

Several fans who turned up on foot, were told to keep the pram back in their cars or to leave it unsecured at the gate, at their own risks. Several frustrated parents took to twitter to voice their protest.

A father and avid cricket fan had tweeted an image of strollers parked in a fenced area at University Oval during the first test between the Black Caps and South Africa.

The protests made New Zealand Cricket mull over their policy, and have now decided to project a more family friendly image by allow prams full access into the ground. Prams and strollers will not be permitted at the cricket venues.

“We’re just sorry we caused too much trouble for people that were trying to get into the ground with families. It’s something we don’t want to be known for and we’ve got to put it right. I think this will go some way towards that,” New Zealand Cricket manager of public affairs Richard Boock

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