Manners!
people have got to get some manners!
I have 2 kids and I use a stroller in the mall so I don't have to carry my kids around.
I remember when I had my first, breastfeeding wasn't the norm then...there wasn't much info about it. There was no breastfeeding rooms in malls. Once I went to Greenhills, I had to breastfeed in their clinic in front of the doctor who asked me questions such as: masakit ba (does it hurt?), di ba sya pwede ng formula (can't he have formula milk instead?). Jeez. from a doctor? Breastfeeding and pumping for milk was AWKWARD! but my son's needs had to come first so keber! Then we discovered MOA's breastfeeding room so from then on we only went to malls where they have breastfeeding rooms and where strollers are not a burden to use (no elevator, etc). But one thing I notice and continue to irk me to this day is how people really do not know when and when not to use the elevator.
In the office, former office, that is, people who wanted to ride the elevator wanted to be always first to enter the elevator instead of letting those already in the elevator disembark. The same thing happen in mall elevators plus the fact when people who do not need to use the elevator gets to use it instead of those who have strollers or who are in wheelchairs. There's an effing sign na nga to prio those w strollers and wheelchairs and yet its the same every time!
Yes I do have huge strollers. I have a single Full size Graco stroller and another Quattro Tour Duo Stroller. They are the heavyweights in their class and I love them! Everytime we're in the mall, a lot of people really do stare at them. no kid.
going back, people really have to learn manners! Just imagine if we have to carry the strollers down the hot stairwell of the mall. Believe you me, we've done that many, many times!
Mall employees also needs to be schooled in making sure that people follow these simple and common rules. The security guards, take notice and tell us its bawal to use the escalator but what will we use? I'm not stupid naman to keep my kids ON the stroller while we're riding the escalator. We take them down and we let them ride again on the next level. tedious? yes very tedious if you have a 2 rumbunctious boys.
So far the best mall to go to if you are breastfeeding are SM Malls: SM MOA and SM Southmall
Best mall to go when you have strollers? SM MOA, there are only 2 levels and hallways are spacious.
