trampolines

Jake loves these, but I think he is too young at the momment (i.e I can't be bothered supervising him for the hours he will spend getting on, getting off, getting on, getting off). But we were thinking of getting one next year for a combined xmas present for the boys. Now, I really want one with the "cage" but Lewis sees it as a wrestling cage, so no doubt it will tip. Friends of ours have an ordinary one that is dug in the ground, but apprently one of the twins constantly hides under there at bath time and they are resorting to poking him out with sticks.

So tramps..good idea or not? what age? and what kind?

I dunno if this is possible but can you get tramps that have sides that can be removed. That way while hes little hes got the safety of the sides then when the kids are bigger and know the dangers etc they can be removed so they can't just bounce of the walls hehe

we had them when we were about eight - bounced off many times, many injuries and have to say pads arent always a help - I would wait til he is a lot older unless he listens well to rule restrictions etc and you are willing to get out there (and on there) with him???
BTW ours was dug into ground and concreted in corners to stop it moving - we gave up with the mowing thing and mum used to use weedeater under it cause it meant at least it was safer for us to bounce on

hay lizzle have you thought of the little tramps they have a holding bar and look quite stable i saw one atframers here and they were $80 you will never find a tramp here

I would be very very surprised if my cousin can have children now due the the amount of extreeemely painful looking accidents he had on his as a child. We always had hours of fun on it- it meant we were outside (not watching TV) and getting huge amounts of exercise which IMHO is a very good thing. I don't ever remember hurting myself. I think those ones with sides look great and much safer- when we move back to NZ we will definitely be getting one

Charlotte is at an age now (whenever we go to places that have them) that she absolutely loves them and spends ages on them so I would think about 2 1/2 is a good age if you are prepared to supervise.

Edited by Jennz

We had one as kids and loved it! It was so well used that it had to be repaired about 5 times before we eventually passed it on.
We had all kinds of minor injuries but it never put us off and I think if we can afford it our kids will definitely be getting one.

We had one when I was a kid from when I was quite young, I think around 5 so my brothers and sisters must have been even younger.

Maya got a tramp for her 2nd birthday and she loves it. She is really good with the rules tho, when she has friends over she bosses them around and tells them "one at a time" and I only let her on it when she is supervised.