Thank you for writing this article!!!
I avidly ride my kids to school and promote the use of bicycles as a viable means of transport. I agree with one of the contributors, that the ride to/from school is one of the highlights of the day.
I enjoyed looking at the many different set ups that families have to get themselves around. The most enjoyable photo is the one of Mum & trailer riding in the snow… now that’s commitment!

I was sent a link to this article by a bicycle advocacy group as I want to start a school bike bus, where adult volunteers ride with kids to primary/elementary school to ensure they ride to school safely and keep the school traffic area relatively car free. Do you know of any such groups in the US as here in Australia there aren’t many groups of that nature? I ask as you may have come across these groups in your research for this article possibly?

Many thanks

And thanks to iBikeuBike. I applaud families who go carless. Our director, Alan Durning, has done it for years (even with three young kids). I don’t have any particular affinity for cars. But I’m locked into the car way of life like most Americans. Hopefully, following the lead of pioneering families like you, our next generation will have an entirely different relationship with cars (and it seems to be starting already). At least that’s the idea for many of these biking parents! And you make the point clearly too: It’s a perfectly normal thing to do! Hopefully all these photos of beautiful, healthy, smart people help illustrate that too.

Happy pedaling!!

I think for her the trailer is her own private space from which she can see the world. She pats the trailer when I pull it out of the garage and says, “Mi bici!” (we speak Spanish at home, so that means “my bike”) over and over.

Pro tip: when we sprang for a trailer, someone told me to get the one for two kids. It was terrific advice. I can haul a week’s worth of groceries home with my daughter perched in the middle of them, although I do have to make sure the fruit is in the back where she can’t take a bite out of every piece of it before we get home.

Thanks for inspiring more parents to bike with their children.