Cycling and camping from baby till 7 years old

Cycling and camping from baby till 7 years

6 years: a small heavy bike is quite strenuous and hard labour.


	Don't say too quickly: "They can't do that". Parents often see and make more problems than the children. Children on a bicycle - riding themselves or on the back - is very positive. Cycling themselves, the increased circulation of the blood produces an active and vivid observing child, quite different from the musty, car numbers counting car-holidays-passengers. The bond parent-child gets a nice opportunity to be tightened again: during the many pedalling hours there is ample time for much talking, also with the little ones on the rear carrier. The quiet tempo gives the children's mind time to ask about the things they see and which are explained to them. This is impossible in a car: "What, where? Oh we passed it already" And the tiredness? Nothing is so quickly forgotten by a child. Tired they get off the bicycle for a picnic and within minutes they are already fooling around again in the woods, absorbed in the game playing with sticks and branches.
	(It is 25 years ago that we started to cycle with children, there are now a lot more possibilities to do this, such as a pedal bike trailer. More light weight things and such like, but you cannot get baskets anymore. But the advices remain broadly the same.)
		Overview of combinations: Baby carried on back and toddler in the basket One child and two children in the basket Two and three children, one on his own bike Tips

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