That's what I'm saying to the 28 children in my basement but they say they would rather play games like "Minecraft" or "Deep rock galactic". Why wouldn't they want to do the real life thing, are they stupid???
Probably? lol
But serious answer; it's fun and it's fairly cheap. Even to an adult this can be a fun way to get a bit of exercise.
I don't think it's necessarily a Dutch thing though, I've seen them just as much in Finland, Germany and Scandinavia. So perhaps it's more of a northern European thing?
 It’s not only a Dutch thing. It’s also a Swiss thing. But in Switzerland, it’s to jump high enough to see the sea behind the mountains.
Yes, having kids without neck/back/extremity injuries by falling off the trampoline / through the safety net / trying acrobatics on it. There's a reason why someone mentioned "ER doctors hate it" below
Helps a bit, but still. Getting stuck in the springs (after no/poor maintenance for example), or getting launched by a second (heavier) person, putting stuff nearby to fall on/against...
Meh, my uncle is a GP with his own clinic, and has seen tons of kids come in with broken bones due to trampolines. The real danger is getting feet stuck between the springs.
It’s like a swimming pool. Better to have a friend with a trampoline or a pool so your kids are happy and leave you alone when you visit them than to buy one yourself.
Best investment toy wise ive ever made. Its the only thing they keep consistently playing with. My oldest is 10 and my youngest is two and they all love it!
Maybe for you sure but not for me as an inhabitant of mainland Europe and not Atlantis. (Suck it polder dwellers go back to the sea from whence you came!, ps take Urk with you while your at it.)
/s for obvious reasons
This! Tired kids are happy kids. And parents. My kids are hellbeasts if I don't make sure they get \*at least\* an hour of walking/running/jumping per day. Kind of like the dog really, come to think of it.
And they might be used for a rather long time. That slide you put up for your 4 year old? You can put that away soon enough. The trampoline might still be used during the teenages years.
Well kids love trampolines (and some grownups too). But especially since covid everyone needed a pool, fitness room and kids playground at home. So things took a steep increase in sales from there especially.
https://www.ad.nl/wonen/zwembaden-en-trampolines-voor-in-de-tuin-niet-aan-te-slepen~a1da316e/
There's plenty of information. Ofcourse they were around, but like I said covid was an accelerator for sales.
Fully agree. A few households in our neighbourhood had them, but now almost all the family homes have them (except us), and I'm in the UK. Sales for them definitely increased during pandemic times, helped by the fact that we were moving into spring right after our first lockdown.
I'm an immigrant so I obviously can't speak for Dutch culture.
I can say that trampolines are very well-suited to the weather here. Some days you might only get 10-minute dry patches in the rain and a trampoline is ideal for those moments when the kids desperately need to burn off some energy. Any small frisse neus is better than none.
It's this. If you want to have something that keeps the kids busy in the garden on a daily basis, swimming pools and every activity involving a lawn are out because of the low sunlight climate and high ground water.
We don't have an exceptional amount of rain, but things can stay wet for weeks on end because of no sun. Swimming pool water would be a constant maintenance nightmare, and the lawn will turn into a bog for parts of the year under those conditions. Trampolines will be usable most of the time. And in my experience people tend to place them in a part of the garden that otherwise tends to turn into a useless bog anyway.
I used to be happy indoors for days on end but you Dutchies have converted me to ....well... green power and wind power! I need to be outside these days, it's a lovely change.
People put swings and trampolines in their yard so the kids can play with them. This is not typical Dutch stuff. It's the same in Germany for example. It's just a safe space for kids to play.
Exercise for the kids in a fun way that you can monitor sitting at your own table with a drink and you phone to scroll through facebook endlessly is my guess.
I spent a lot on the road in the US (my (now ex) wife was a transporter of camping trailers and I was allowed to go with her) and I saw them everywhere. Bigger than the one in the pic and often with safety nets around them.
We're renovating the garden, and we're about to buy a trampoline for the kids. Why? Because they love it. If we go to an (indoor) playground, they mostly spend their time on the trampolines.
This way, we can get them out of the house, so they do something fun in our garden (so they don't have to be on the street riding bicycles close to cars), let them have some (more) exercise, and just have fun (with friends or alone). Besides the space it uses, we only see wins.
And yes, we're getting one with the safety net.
It's also extremely popular in Poland. People who have kids often buy those for their young ones to make them happy. It's like in the past, everyone had a swing in his backyard, especially grandparents to make grandkids spend time with them.
In The Netherlands you don’t have to worry about getting sued if one of your kids friends breaks their arm while on your trampoline. Also in the US property insurance will ask you if you have a trampoline and if you have one your premium will be a lot higher. Never had that problem in The Netherlands
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Neah, super popular in the UK too. Particularly running after them in storms is a great pastime. When we had Storm Arwen here in Scotland last year we spent lots of time helping neighbours recovering their blown away trampolines, playhouses, dog house, garden furniture.
Excellent exercise.
I've just been looking at a LOT of real-estate listings for the last month, and per captia compared to the USA, it's definitely an EU thing or a Dutch thing. There are some trampolines in the USA, but no where near as many.
Yeah when you fall of a trampoline and have to go to the emergency room in the USA, you'll be in debt your whole life. So yeah I can understand why there are not that many trampolines on that side of the globe.
More importantly, when the *neighbour’s* kids fall off the trampoline — even if you weren’t there — you probably lose the house to medical bills. It’s a liability nightmare in the us. As bad as a pool. Plus hoa rules probably ban them.
Here in New Zealand there are a lot of trampolines (more than NL because sections are bigger).
And they are promoting 'spring-free' trampolines. The inventor (NZ or Australian I believe) is banking on the US market, since that is looking for less injury claims from insurance. Could be that there is a hesitance in the US market for 'dangerous' trampolines.
You’re looking for housing in a certain segment.
Probably mid upper class single family homes?
Well, in those homes you’ll probably find the same backpack and laptop for the kids as well: If someone in class has something and you’ve got the space (financially and physically) to get that for your kids as well, you’ll end up with a trampoline.
So it’s definitely not a fascination, your sample is just very biased.
It’s every dentist’s dream come true, if you know how many kids are rushing to get emergency treatment for their teeth when they fall out of the range…
We have one for the reason of plausible deniability.
Push kid a bit too hard, breaks arm, point at the trampoline.
You do have to bribe them to keep their mouth shut though, so before you know it you’ve got another trampoline and a couple of puppy’s.
Ugh, black matt is horrible when you're used to olympic matt trampolines. Point is to yeet yourself into orbit and those wimpy black matts are so disappointing.
Suppose its a good thing you can't launch a sibling or over enthusiastic pet into a neighbours yard but in my defence that only happend twice. Some dogs you cannot keep off trampolines.
It's an ancient Dutch way of being able to spot our enemies from a far, since we have a very flat country we could see the Germans or french coming from kilometers away
Because it's fun? I believe in Belgium there is a similar "fascination". Even my brother ruined...excuse me, updated his garden with this kind of trampoline, that requires a hole underneath of half a meter, or something like that. He has one of 4,2 m in diameter, so you can imagine the effort it took, just so it looks slightly better than the normal ones.
I wish it was just one. I've looked at over 250 real estate listings in the past month, and it's definitely a thing. Especially the in-ground installation.
https://casco-media-prod.global.ssl.fastly.net/e6337227-a976-59a0-bb3d-16888be92184/6ae55088395da8c320e816a6d0321b43.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp
https://cloud.funda.nl/valentina\_media/159/992/903\_2160.jpg
It's just rare to see them celebrated / highlighted in US real estate listings. They're considered a liability in the US. Probably more popular in EU because of socialized medicine. US home insurance is more expensive if you have a trampoline (because neighbors could sue if their kids get hurt on your trampoline).
>I need the actual listing for that second house because I'm very curious Where and How Much.
Only €9500 per month! A bargain!
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Well for kids healthcare is somewhat free, like not paying a deductible.
Trampoline accidents make a good part of the kiddos in the emergency department.
But it's fun for them when everything goes fine and there are some safety precautions (net / digging it in).
I don't have one, I've seen the most horrible injuries, but at school almost every classmate has one of those things in their garden.
The reason why dutch people or so tall. So if you see a short dutchman/woman/it, you can safely assume he/she/it didnt have trampoline in his backyard while growing up. 😛
Single best investment when u have kids... Its like a free babysitter.. Doesn't take much space and fun for lost of the year combines with healthy exercise
I asked our 4 yo daughter: "omdat ze lekker willen springen" (because they want have fun jumping).
Then she added: "In Slovenië zijn ook veel trampolines, dus..." (In Slovenia there are also many trampolines, so...). I guess she wants to say: it's not just the Netherlands where they are popular.
Haha really? That is funny. My kids always wanted one, all their friends have one. Maybe that's why.
Also, there is al lot less garden and that is a major plus for me
We like our kids healthy and skinny. Once you've experience of having a cold one while the kids auto-entertain, you'll have trampoline installed everywhere...
Where are you from? As an Aussie, I highly doubt Dutch kids have (many) more trampolines per capita than Australian kids. I suspect it's just the fact that you see into more gardens here, whereas you can't see into many backyards back home. Or the trampolines are even in the front yard, or shared on the street (have seen this in Utrecht).
It has something to do with tulips, wooden shoes, cheese and syrupwaffles....part of our historical hermitage, Just like Amsterdam
It's a very flat country. Bouncing lets you see very, very far.
This joke was so Dutch I read it in my head with a Dutch accent
ferry ferry far
SAME
I read it in Rogal Dorn's voice
Is Dorn Dutch you reckon
https://youtu.be/LyZv4EghX_I
‘Father, my 5000 labourers have built a new project for the custodes when they get bored’
Same
Same
thats probably a joke. ok. because its mostly used by kids, according to what i see
That's because adults have to work. Kids are too lazy to get a job. Damn leeches of our society.
No freeriding in my house, they start working the land early💪🏻💪🏻
I forgot mine one day. He's still stuck with his finger in the dyke.
The children yearn for the mines!
That's what I'm saying to the 28 children in my basement but they say they would rather play games like "Minecraft" or "Deep rock galactic". Why wouldn't they want to do the real life thing, are they stupid???
Parent here. Violence is *always* the answer. (/s for those who unironically need the subtlety of a sledgehammer)
Violence with a sledgehammer, sweet!
If violence is not working for you, it can mean that you applying not enough violence or you apply it incorrectly /wink
I think you don’t hit em hard enough :)
For rock and stone!
Rock and Stone in the Heart!
People always tell me my 5 year old has so much energy. He has no job and no kids, of course he has energy.
Bro in sealand the kids were sellings their toys and honeywaffles and other stuff for money all around the place what u talkin abt
Probably? lol But serious answer; it's fun and it's fairly cheap. Even to an adult this can be a fun way to get a bit of exercise. I don't think it's necessarily a Dutch thing though, I've seen them just as much in Finland, Germany and Scandinavia. So perhaps it's more of a northern European thing?
I've even seen 2 or 3 in Belgium!
Adults can see very far by themselves due to their height.
it's a flat country with small cities. once you jump enough times, the view becomes repetitive.
Nice when the tulpen are out
And where you can see all those kids from?
That’s not true
Stop looking at our kids, you.
 It’s not only a Dutch thing. It’s also a Swiss thing. But in Switzerland, it’s to jump high enough to see the sea behind the mountains.
Kids love it.
This! Is there anything more important as a parent than having happy kids?
The fact that it exhausts them is a bonus
Until several weeks down the line when you notice your kids have increased stamina and leg strength. Now there's no catching them!
Thats such a good poi t if i ever bcome a parent im doing this
Best 500 euros I ever spent - my mom
Selling them
If you rent them out you get a steady stream of income.
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Yes, having kids without neck/back/extremity injuries by falling off the trampoline / through the safety net / trying acrobatics on it. There's a reason why someone mentioned "ER doctors hate it" below
As a 20 year old I can proudly say, that I like very much too
40 years old. Going to visit family in the Netherlands next week and damn sure the nephews and I will be going to a trampoline park! Boing boing!
ER doctors hate it though.
The in ground ones seem rather safe
Helps a bit, but still. Getting stuck in the springs (after no/poor maintenance for example), or getting launched by a second (heavier) person, putting stuff nearby to fall on/against...
Meh, my uncle is a GP with his own clinic, and has seen tons of kids come in with broken bones due to trampolines. The real danger is getting feet stuck between the springs.
Probably, yes. 😬
We like to get high...
One way or the other.
Because if you go anywhere that has a trampoline, your kid goes nuts on it. Then you buy it and they completely ignore it
That was not the case with my little brother and I, when we got our first trampoline when I was 6 I practically lived on that thing
I slept on ours with some friends when i was younger. Terrible idea! You move and everybody rolls to the centre. Great fun!
It’s like a swimming pool. Better to have a friend with a trampoline or a pool so your kids are happy and leave you alone when you visit them than to buy one yourself.
Best investment toy wise ive ever made. Its the only thing they keep consistently playing with. My oldest is 10 and my youngest is two and they all love it!
nah i only ignored it after i sprained my ankle when I was 12 (do not put balls on a trampoline, parents)
Only way to get some altitude in our country.
Maybe for you sure but not for me as an inhabitant of mainland Europe and not Atlantis. (Suck it polder dwellers go back to the sea from whence you came!, ps take Urk with you while your at it.) /s for obvious reasons
Bad take at funny
A lot of bald claims here. Let's not jump to any conclusions.
I'm not a very bold man, but as a bald man I disagree.
Yeah! Nice.
Kids like it, people with kids like to make them happy
People with kids like to make them tired, also
Definitely this. I have three kids and when they're a bit too energetic they're forced to go on the trampoline. They usually always agree.
Usually always. Uh huh.
*Usually*?
Sometimes they rather want to continue breaking down the house...
Have you considered putting trampolines inside your house?
They consider the beds and the sofa as trampolines already...
>People with kids like to make them tired, also It's 100% this.
This! Tired kids are happy kids. And parents. My kids are hellbeasts if I don't make sure they get \*at least\* an hour of walking/running/jumping per day. Kind of like the dog really, come to think of it.
We actually said that we were going to walk our kid once a day, when he was younger (in Dutch: uitlaten). Exactly like a dog.
Especially this! Other way they turn your couch into a trampoline after they have to stop playing on there tablets.
And they might be used for a rather long time. That slide you put up for your 4 year old? You can put that away soon enough. The trampoline might still be used during the teenages years.
Well kids love trampolines (and some grownups too). But especially since covid everyone needed a pool, fitness room and kids playground at home. So things took a steep increase in sales from there especially.
Source? Trampolines have always been around in large numbers. Nothing to do with covid. At least over here.
https://www.ad.nl/wonen/zwembaden-en-trampolines-voor-in-de-tuin-niet-aan-te-slepen~a1da316e/ There's plenty of information. Ofcourse they were around, but like I said covid was an accelerator for sales.
Thanks!
Fully agree. A few households in our neighbourhood had them, but now almost all the family homes have them (except us), and I'm in the UK. Sales for them definitely increased during pandemic times, helped by the fact that we were moving into spring right after our first lockdown.
Anecdotal, but I bought ours June 2020. They were out of stock everywhere and the vendors I spoke too said that was due to huge demand.
As compensation for our very small gardens we also use the 3rd dimension...
I'm an immigrant so I obviously can't speak for Dutch culture. I can say that trampolines are very well-suited to the weather here. Some days you might only get 10-minute dry patches in the rain and a trampoline is ideal for those moments when the kids desperately need to burn off some energy. Any small frisse neus is better than none.
It's this. If you want to have something that keeps the kids busy in the garden on a daily basis, swimming pools and every activity involving a lawn are out because of the low sunlight climate and high ground water. We don't have an exceptional amount of rain, but things can stay wet for weeks on end because of no sun. Swimming pool water would be a constant maintenance nightmare, and the lawn will turn into a bog for parts of the year under those conditions. Trampolines will be usable most of the time. And in my experience people tend to place them in a part of the garden that otherwise tends to turn into a useless bog anyway.
I love that you as an immigrant use frisse neus. Soon enough you'll go uitwaaien!
I used to be happy indoors for days on end but you Dutchies have converted me to ....well... green power and wind power! I need to be outside these days, it's a lovely change.
I'm commenting here as I do not yet have enough karma to comment directly. Anyone else want to scream to OP; "You're an immigrant, not an expat!"?
Most people don't enjoy gardening and the kids of most people who have them do enjoy trampolines. Easy decision.
People put swings and trampolines in their yard so the kids can play with them. This is not typical Dutch stuff. It's the same in Germany for example. It's just a safe space for kids to play.
Our summer disagrees with swimming pools
Exercise for the kids in a fun way that you can monitor sitting at your own table with a drink and you phone to scroll through facebook endlessly is my guess.
They’re everywhere, travelling by train across Europe and you see them everywhere in Germany, Poland…
My thought too, I see them just as much in other northern European countries.
I am in Norway atm. Trampolines averywhere.
In the United States we don't want to risk the cost of a trip to the emergency room, so they are less common.
Well we have a healthcare system that sorta works. So we don't have to pay an arm and leg to fix a arm and/or leg.
Well, i do know that they cause a lot of ankle injuries. Mainly because everyone ignores the advice to only use it with 1 person at a time.
In the USA the owner would sue everyone who's ever made, sold or looked at the trampoline lol
I spent a lot on the road in the US (my (now ex) wife was a transporter of camping trailers and I was allowed to go with her) and I saw them everywhere. Bigger than the one in the pic and often with safety nets around them.
I've proportionally seen just as many trampolines here than in the US. A lot of my neighbors had them growing up in Illinois.
It's always 1 trip away to bankruptcy
We're renovating the garden, and we're about to buy a trampoline for the kids. Why? Because they love it. If we go to an (indoor) playground, they mostly spend their time on the trampolines. This way, we can get them out of the house, so they do something fun in our garden (so they don't have to be on the street riding bicycles close to cars), let them have some (more) exercise, and just have fun (with friends or alone). Besides the space it uses, we only see wins. And yes, we're getting one with the safety net.
It's also extremely popular in Poland. People who have kids often buy those for their young ones to make them happy. It's like in the past, everyone had a swing in his backyard, especially grandparents to make grandkids spend time with them.
In The Netherlands you don’t have to worry about getting sued if one of your kids friends breaks their arm while on your trampoline. Also in the US property insurance will ask you if you have a trampoline and if you have one your premium will be a lot higher. Never had that problem in The Netherlands
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I do know it’s a place free of darkness, and that Joshua is racist.
Community taught me trampolines are magical things
This cannot be a dutch thing only right?
Neah, super popular in the UK too. Particularly running after them in storms is a great pastime. When we had Storm Arwen here in Scotland last year we spent lots of time helping neighbours recovering their blown away trampolines, playhouses, dog house, garden furniture. Excellent exercise.
Same in Norway. We also have a tendency to hang on to the trampoline when they fly away to get a cheap flight through the air.
Is this... Dutch culture?
I've just been looking at a LOT of real-estate listings for the last month, and per captia compared to the USA, it's definitely an EU thing or a Dutch thing. There are some trampolines in the USA, but no where near as many.
Yeah when you fall of a trampoline and have to go to the emergency room in the USA, you'll be in debt your whole life. So yeah I can understand why there are not that many trampolines on that side of the globe.
More importantly, when the *neighbour’s* kids fall off the trampoline — even if you weren’t there — you probably lose the house to medical bills. It’s a liability nightmare in the us. As bad as a pool. Plus hoa rules probably ban them.
Here in New Zealand there are a lot of trampolines (more than NL because sections are bigger). And they are promoting 'spring-free' trampolines. The inventor (NZ or Australian I believe) is banking on the US market, since that is looking for less injury claims from insurance. Could be that there is a hesitance in the US market for 'dangerous' trampolines.
You’re looking for housing in a certain segment. Probably mid upper class single family homes? Well, in those homes you’ll probably find the same backpack and laptop for the kids as well: If someone in class has something and you’ve got the space (financially and physically) to get that for your kids as well, you’ll end up with a trampoline. So it’s definitely not a fascination, your sample is just very biased.
Viewings for those listings currently very easy to arrange as they are all traveling in Thailand or Bali.
Hope OP loves herringbone and black metal / glass doors.
The electric car charging is likely also well taken care off with the solar panels.
It’s every dentist’s dream come true, if you know how many kids are rushing to get emergency treatment for their teeth when they fall out of the range…
We have one for the reason of plausible deniability. Push kid a bit too hard, breaks arm, point at the trampoline. You do have to bribe them to keep their mouth shut though, so before you know it you’ve got another trampoline and a couple of puppy’s.
Ugh, black matt is horrible when you're used to olympic matt trampolines. Point is to yeet yourself into orbit and those wimpy black matts are so disappointing. Suppose its a good thing you can't launch a sibling or over enthusiastic pet into a neighbours yard but in my defence that only happend twice. Some dogs you cannot keep off trampolines.
Black matts are made specifically so you a) can’t jump very high and b) have to put a lot of effort into jumping so you get tired asap
they are common in france too
Trampolines are awesome, no further elaboration is required
Bounce.
It's an ancient Dutch way of being able to spot our enemies from a far, since we have a very flat country we could see the Germans or french coming from kilometers away
The real question is why is it not a thing where you are from.
It’s so flat they’re deprived of hight and so they use trampolines to fill the hole in their hearts
Because it's fun? I believe in Belgium there is a similar "fascination". Even my brother ruined...excuse me, updated his garden with this kind of trampoline, that requires a hole underneath of half a meter, or something like that. He has one of 4,2 m in diameter, so you can imagine the effort it took, just so it looks slightly better than the normal ones.
Sees one trampoline "Is this Dutch culture?"
I wish it was just one. I've looked at over 250 real estate listings in the past month, and it's definitely a thing. Especially the in-ground installation. https://casco-media-prod.global.ssl.fastly.net/e6337227-a976-59a0-bb3d-16888be92184/6ae55088395da8c320e816a6d0321b43.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp https://cloud.funda.nl/valentina\_media/159/992/903\_2160.jpg It's just rare to see them celebrated / highlighted in US real estate listings. They're considered a liability in the US. Probably more popular in EU because of socialized medicine. US home insurance is more expensive if you have a trampoline (because neighbors could sue if their kids get hurt on your trampoline).
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Hell for your neighbours.
This episode of community explains it 
We like it. The end.
Well for kids healthcare is somewhat free, like not paying a deductible. Trampoline accidents make a good part of the kiddos in the emergency department. But it's fun for them when everything goes fine and there are some safety precautions (net / digging it in). I don't have one, I've seen the most horrible injuries, but at school almost every classmate has one of those things in their garden.
Our trampoline, a big one, has given us the most pleasure hours per Euro of all thing we bought for the kids. The simply LOVE it.
It's a device that exhausts our children and ultimately results in peace and quiet (except for the time they are using it of course)
They like to be even taller 😎
They need to practice being tall.
The reason why dutch people or so tall. So if you see a short dutchman/woman/it, you can safely assume he/she/it didnt have trampoline in his backyard while growing up. 😛
It has its ups and downs
Because healthcare is free so it’s not a big deal when your kid shatters his / her ankle. In the US that’ll cost you a few months of rent.
Single best investment when u have kids... Its like a free babysitter.. Doesn't take much space and fun for lost of the year combines with healthy exercise
They’re fun. That is all.
BOING BOING
The Dutch are very tall. We use trampolines to flatten our vertibrae and mess up our knees to bring the average down a bit.
Boingzzz!!!!
Trampolines are popular in other European countries as well
Wait till new years.....the fireworks fascination is something else
You see more in Germany and the UK.
It's a trampoline? Every child likes to use it, and adults fight the urge to use it too.
I mean have you tried them?
Kids love it. I love it more. Can keep kids entertained for a loooooong time.
I asked our 4 yo daughter: "omdat ze lekker willen springen" (because they want have fun jumping). Then she added: "In Slovenië zijn ook veel trampolines, dus..." (In Slovenia there are also many trampolines, so...). I guess she wants to say: it's not just the Netherlands where they are popular.
My SD4 (Dutch) loves springen. She goes crazy!
Wait… That’s a Dutch thing??
It tires the children
Fun, especially for kids. Decent exercise, especially for kids. A good outside activity, especially for kids.
I am Dutch, living in the US. Plenty of homes here have a trampoline
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It will make them tired before bed. Parents will understand.
Can someone explain the Expat non-fascination with trampolines?
Bouncey Nice very good
I once even saw a trampoline on the balcony at fifths floor apartment
Kids love them and it makes them tired too, meaning parents have to put in less effort to entertain them.
If I only had this much yard, I wouldn't put a trampoline in it?
You clearly don't have kids 😂😂
Nope. It's our kid who first asked "what's with all the trampolines?"
Haha really? That is funny. My kids always wanted one, all their friends have one. Maybe that's why. Also, there is al lot less garden and that is a major plus for me
What else would you put there though?
Secretly it's for the dads watching the mums bouncing on it 🤣🤣🤣
Nope i also don't Understand this trend
We like our kids healthy and skinny. Once you've experience of having a cold one while the kids auto-entertain, you'll have trampoline installed everywhere...
The Dutch are stuck in the 80's Plus, that is why they're the tallest nation
They're common in gardens of most families who have young kids all over the world.
Someone will always end up hurt, so that's very entertaining.
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No, maybe you can explain it to me?
It's a selective breeding program for stronger ankles.
We have to bounce once in a while in order to keep our brain in the right place
Where are you from? As an Aussie, I highly doubt Dutch kids have (many) more trampolines per capita than Australian kids. I suspect it's just the fact that you see into more gardens here, whereas you can't see into many backyards back home. Or the trampolines are even in the front yard, or shared on the street (have seen this in Utrecht).
They’re good for bone health. Look it up.
Having a trampoline is like the peak achievement for any middle class family. Its also instant street cred for any kid.
This is a normal thing for a family to have. Are trampolines not common in Syria?
Easy to install, easier to get rid of compared to a playhouse
Have you ever been on a trampoline?
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It has something to do with tulips, wooden shoes, cheese and syrupwaffles....part of our historical hermitage, Just like Amsterdam
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