i just bought my first camper trailer and cant wait to get out and use it. The only thing im worried about is my toddler playing with all the switched especially the ones on the stove. We will be with him most of the time but im scared hell wake up in the middle of the night or during a nap and play with them. Does anyone have any tips or is there anything i can buy to place over the switches?

do the knobs come off like on a range for the house? turn the propane off at the shut-off valve before you go to bed? do you sleep that hard with a toddler? i never could, lol. have fun, we did…my son had the incident though, cleaning up camp, i set some totes close enough to the steps going in our pop up camper so when he stumbled down (he had been making it fine the whole weekend, of course) his head hit the crate…5 stitches in a small town in OK…they had to strap him down…i had to leave the room at one point, so glad my husband was there. i think my son freaked out so bad bc of all the blood, you know how heads and lips pour it out!

I’m thinking of booking a Caribbean Cruise and will be taking my toddler (14 months). Can anyone give me some advice as to how to get around on the islands. I can’t see lugging my car toddler car seat around in taxis, and doubt that some of them even have seat belts. Renting a car on each island would be difficult as well. Please help!

most of the islands don’t require car seats for little kids.

I like the idea of the car seat with base and matching stroller combo. But I realize after a little while, I will have to buy another car seat since the infant travel system combo is for babies up to 22lbs. I currently have a practically new stroller.

So I was wondering if I should get the combo or just make do with the stroller I have and buy a convertible car seat, that I can use well after the infant stage?

Pros – don’t have to pull a sleeping baby out of a car seat and dump him into a cold stroller.
-tons of storage room under the stroller
-baby faces you when in the car seat in the stroller
-so easy to pop the car seat in and out of the car with the base installed and you know it is in the correct position each time
-with both sun shades up on stroller and car seat it becomes completely sheltered from light or rain

Cons – Car seat and growing baby equals very heavy!! and getting heavier!
-stroller is big and bulky and hard to use in small shops or get through non automatic doors
-the peek through window shows his feet
-stroller doesn’t fit in the trunk of a compact car or in a mid size car trunk if you have anything else in there
-stroller is very heavy to be lifting in and out of a vehicle

I have one of the Graco travel systems and yes I use it since it is the only stroller I have right now. I don’t know if I would pay the money for a new one but since this was given to me I make the best of it. I’m getting an umbrella stroller though soon since my boy plus the car seat is just too heavy and he likes to face forward and sit up in his big stroller, the lighter smaller stroller just makes more sense now. However, not having to wake a sleeping baby (especially when you’ve taken him for a car ride to get him to sleep) is worth putting up with all of the cons!