me again! how do you transport 3kids around

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I have one day off and blatantly should be doing EYFS but am instead loitering on mumsnet!
Anyway. I have a double urban mountain which is fab. atm I occasionally have 3 under 3's but as of next month I will have 3 under 3's every day. I dont drive, we walk everywhere.
The 2 youngest are 14months and the other my own is 2 and a bit. He walks a bit but not for too long. I have a buggy board but he wont sit on it so usually he sits on the hood! He likes it but I am aware Ofsted may not be particularly impressed and its not ideal. I would love an ABC but I cant afford it. Looking at them though they are so similar to my buggy that I wonder if there is a way to attach a seat to the top of my own. Has anyone else done this? Or think of anything else. The 2 little ones by the way are very very heavy and I couldnt in a million years have them in a sling! x

I have 3 small kids to mind every day and one double buggy.. its amazing how much kids will actually walk if there is no option and you wont carry them.

Mine all whinged at first but now are all champion walkers and the parents love it..

far too much car journeying and buggy using imho... walking does them good..
2 years old is well old enough to walk.. be firm and let them take fair turns...

good luck..

how far do you have to walk though thebody. My walk to playgroup alone is 1 mile which is a long way on little legs. i want mine to be champion waklers too but because we dont drive and have no option but to walk it is quite a lot of walking when you add up all the school runs, library runs etc. i hadnt thought of the little ones walking, I thought they were too young.

I'm thinking about having 3 under 3s - so curious as to how practically you cope [nosey emoticon!]. I'm also a pushchair everywhere, out-n-about every day CM so don't want to feel I'm housebound or that I'm not being good enough with them!

If/when it happens I was going to get a buggypod (the revelo? thing) that becomes the extra seat on the side (I have a phil and teds). I also liked the look of the bike type seat... Strolli rider (just googled as couldn't remember its name)... but decided my 18mth old would probably fall off it - at 2.5 your DS would be fine with it though. HTHs

oooh, a atrolli, thats a thought...

i cope with wine at the end of the day lol x

I have 3 sometimes 4 a day and I use a mixture of abc triple (when I am out for a long period or walking distance) and a phil and teds ( short distances, school runs etc)

hth

I have a Mothercare tandem double and an Obaby triple, I haven't used the triple yet but I have a 7m/o starting in a week which brings me up to my maximum which is three under 2s. My daughter could walk to most places but it'd take us so long to do it that I just shelled out on the triple which I got for £100 off ebay.

I have heard of others on here attach a bike seat (?) to a double 3 wheeler with plastic ties. I'm not sure how safe it is or whether ofsted would be any happier. Maybe you could ask on the pushchair section.

In the past, I have made do with a buggyboard or put the smallest into a backpack (I always find it quite suprising how much weight I can carry when all the straps are done up properly!).

I used to have a buggy board that had a seat built in - I think it was called a Litaf Seat 2 Go. Like a buggy board but a bit higher with a built in seat. Not sure how easily it would fit on a double buggy though.....

I sit my little boy on the handle of my pushchair, I have no idea what Ofsted will think but they won't ever see me out and about and its only ever my son who sits up there. He walks some of the way and sits some of the way so not there all the time and I don't have 3 all day everyday.

I have also seen a double pushchair with seat on the handle bar that had straps to hold the child in but was too embarrassed to ask the person with it where it came from.

My little man doesn't like the buggy board either

yes cinnamon thats what my boy presently does, i have this paranoia what if ofsted found out about it though!
ask away next time! never be embarressed people love it x

we spent all day out today with a picnic in woods.. didnt take buggy and had 3 kids,aged 3 2 and 16 months.. its a mile there and mile back.. lots of rests, though in the sunshine and food and drink.

i do appreciate that if time was an issue, ie schiool run, then then lots of planning involved.

my main bug bear is parents who say 'but they WONT walk for me'it usually means they dont want to walk either and take the car because its less hassle.

yes I think 2 years old is quite able to do a mile.. children did in the past, maybe thats why they were so much fitter back then compared to the fat toddler explosion we have now..

yes thats it, my 2years old can walk a mile if we have all the time in the world its ok but quite often time is an issue, otherwise im quite happy for them to walk. Hes not too bad, he will walk a fair bit though. picnic in woods sounds lovely x

I've done many different things and what I've done depends on the ages/weight/capability/behaviour etc. I agree about the walking not being as easy when on a time limit, for me it would be impossible to walk everywhere because of where I live and where the school is (no pavement on the main road to school).

There is one toddler I would never have risked going out without a pram for safety reasons, others could fail to continue walking then we'd be late for school etc. So as I said, I have to look at the whole picture.

When ds2 was 10 wks old I have 4 ages 19 months and under. For this I had a triple buggy and ds2 in a sling. As he got older and the older 2 more reliable with walking, I'd use a double for the youngest 2 and have the other 2 with little backpacks on (Goldbug is the name - they are FAB). The backpacks had straps to attach at the end and I'd hook those over the pram with my hand over the top (I used these without a pram if I was holding their hand but was worried about one pulling one way and other pulling the other way!).

I've never used a buggy board or seat to go but have both of these. Just haven't had the age/pram combination to work yet. The triple I have is an Obaby one as I couldn't afford to buy an expensive one. I've been very happy with it and it's very compact for a triple.

I definitely think a 2+ year old should be walking a lot more but it's all to do with times and whether or not you have time between school runs etc.

It depends on what sorts of things you do/where you go as to what you will need.

Good luck

Oh, the other thing I LOVE about the Obaby is that each seat reclines individually, it has a separate basket behind each seat so great for school runs and day trips etc. Handles also very useful for hanging things off

buggy pod is not bad but dont get the lay down one as u cant lay a baby down in it its better than a buggy board tho i have a duo tandem light and the pod on he side .but a company called emmal junga or somthing do seats that fits onto the top part of the pram i had this when my own 3 were under 3

get a nipper 360 and sit the 2.5 year old on the foot rest!