Category: Outdoor gear

When we moved to Vancouver, I quickly learned that waiting for sunshine to go out is not a parenting strategy. If you have a toddler in the Pacific Northwest, rain isn’t an occasional inconvenience. It’s part of life. Sometimes it’s a drizzle that lingers for days. Other times it’s sideways rain that slap you on…

We bought the Beco Toddler Carrier after we moved to Canada. Our son was 2 years old, and we realized that our beloved old backpack carrier didn’t function as well as it did. Once we switched to that backpack carrier, we thought we’d never switch back to a soft carrier, not for hiking, anyway, but…

Toddlers are not babies anymore, but they still have very sensitive skin, only they don’t have the ability to stay put in the shade. My toddler surely loves playing in the sand and water all day long, and he couldn’t care less about harmful UV-rays or my effort to set up the beach cabana where…