Do they grow into passive, dependent adults? Do they lose all their own ambition or grow up with an insatiable craving for things? Do they become monsters trying to break out of confinement? Do they turn into shoplifters?

When they’re let loose, do they run, or do they just sit there? Do they act out in school?

What do you know of kids who spent a lot of their childhood—way too much of it, to judge by the size of some of them—being wheeled by a parent or caregiver around noisy, crowded spaces filled with merchandise?

The one thing I won’t believe is that it doesn’t affect them.

Tags as I wrote them: children, strollers, shopping malls, traps, depression, hyperactivity, immobility, behavior.

Topics: children, behavior, strollers, depression, traps, shopping malls, hyperactivity, immobility