Stroller Faux Pas

I'm going to make some parents angry this morning I have no doubt, but there is an issue bugging me so here goes.....Our family just spent 5 wonderful days at Disney and 3 days at Sea World. My two 6 year old daughters were real troupers. They walked, sometimes over 10 miles in a day, without a complaint. We rested when we needed to rest, went to shows when the temperature was unbearable, and left when we needed to leave. Not once did either of them ask for me to put them in a stroller and push them through Disney. I wouldn't have blamed them if they had, it looked very inviting to be pushed all through the park and dropped off at the rides we wanted to get on. But we didn't hear a peep out of any of our children. What I couldn't get over were the sheer number of kids, well over my 10 year old's size and age, being pushed through Disney in strollers while they texted, ate, and complained. We're talking about kids whose knees were up around their ears because they were simply too large for the strollers they were folding themselves into. We're talking about kids who outweighed me. We're talking about poor parents who were pushing loads of preteen kids around to the rides, uphill, through crowds. We are NOT talking about kids who were disabled in some way or so young that you knew they were exhausted from walking on little legs. These kids would hop out at a ride and run to get into line. I don't have a problem with small children who get tired in Disney...that is to be expected. I have a problem with kids old enough to get a job taking advantage of their parents. It wasn't just a couple of kids. It was a park full. We as parents cannot declare our children lazy when we are unwilling to say "No" to some fundamental demands. If a child outweighs you, towers over you, or is otherwise healthy and capable of walking the answer should be, "No, you may not ride in a stroller!" As a society we like to complain about the unwillingness of an entire generation of children to work for anything. We can no longer complain while failing to equip our children with the necessary tools needed to make it in the world. I apologize if you are one of the parents I saw in Disney, but I urge you to take a look at your children and ask more from them. You might be very surprised what they are capable of if given the chance to hear, "No!"