Great Costco Shopping Tip With Kids Too Heavy to Put in Cart

Although my son can walk, we have a sturdy wheelchair/stroller that we use to keep him contained when we go shopping. My husband was out of town last Saturday when I really needed to get some things that could only be gotten there. Not one to ask for help at a store (although I'm sure if I asked I could probably have asked the store for an assistant but then I would have had to make conversation and that would have stressed me out.) Anyway, I just brought some sturdy shopping bags and hung them on the handles of the stroller and was just fine. S., however, thought of an ingenious idea; see below: Wow, I can't believe you have to put your pictures on hinges and tie your vases to the wall!! The creative things special moms dream up!! How great that you have a way to share those priceless tips. Here's one I figured out just today: instead of lifting my son into the main compartment grocery cart at Costco (it's getting next to impossible) I let him plop down on one of those flat pallets with wheels. It never occurred to me before because I thought those carts were for businesses and supersized families. It saved my back and saved me from the nightmare possibility of both of us falling while I try to hurl him into those tall carts. [Please excuse the interruption but the visual you just produced there was hilarious! I think it was the "hurl" part that got me....] It also erased my worries of him falling and/or having an embarrassing meltdown because he can't walk anymore. Have you ever tried this? Maybe your son would resist the urge of banging his head and enjoy the motion so close to the ground :)  Maybe that's totally in left field because I know very little about autism.........if so, sorry :(  S., don't be sorry! That is a fabulous idea! He loves motion and vibration! Don't hold back--you never know when something you say could be just what someone else needs to hear.