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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm in NE/Capitol Hill and have definitely seen an uptick in wagons around the neighborhood. My kids are too old for it but I think it's a great idea. I often see a couple kids in a wagon with groceries or gear for camp and I remember trying to lug all that stuff around in a double stroller and it makes so much sense. I think a lot of the wagons also fold down better than double strollers and are thus easier to store.

I also see a lot of parents who skip the double stroller and just do a ride-on board. Unless you have twins, that can make a lot more sense. I have a friend whose kids are 18 months apart, and she never got a double stroller. She would carry the baby in a carrier and push the toddler in the stroller, and then transitioned the toddler to the ride on and the baby to the stroller as they aged. Saved them the trouble of buying a new stroller, and dealing with a double stroller in a narrow little row house.

I still see double strollers, of course, but it's great that people are figuring out other solutions because they are kind of a pain.[/quote]

The novel solutions people are figuring out are the same solutions that existed before double strollers were even a thing. I had two under 3’s and never considered a double stroller. We were in a European city and everyone did a baby carrier or put the older one on a scooter. [/quote]

Different lifestyles. I think I see wagons on the Hill because a lot of people here will do pick up/drop off plus errands with little kids and it makes sense for that specific sequence of events. You take kids to camp in the wagon and then put groceries in it on the way home, or you can pick up younger kid in wagon, add groceries, and pick up older kid and put them on the scooter that you transported there easily in the wagon.

Now, if your commute regularly involves public transportation, or you are dropping kids at daycare on the way to the office (instead of on the way back to your home office) a carrier/scooter solution makes more sense.

So it's not people coming up with new solutions to problems that have already been solved. It's people solving problems different from the one you had. I never had a wagon or a double stroller either (I did carrier plus stroller, or carrier plus scooter, or stroller plus scooter), but I can see how it makes sense for other families.[/quote]

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