Buying a mini trampoline - recs?

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OK, my 3 year old will b 4 in a month and I want to get him something he'll use and will be good for him. I've read that kids with Asperger's like trampolines and I can believe it, besides flapping, my son jumps all the time.

My older son with ADHD is always on the move too and I'm sure he would love it and well, why not the whole family?

I'm thinking, due to our lack of space in a townhouse, that I want a folding one.

Does anyone know anything or have experience with Urban Rebounder? I looked at getting a nursery school one, but my son is already 44" tall and about 51 lbs. My 12 year old is 5'6" and 101 lbs. They both will be tall.

Or are there others that are good?

I don't know much about the models you are referring to, but I've understood those who use trampolines to generally be using REAL ones, fully safety netted sides and so on. I think anything that could be fit in your townhouse would be outgrown pretty fast. Can you test one out in a store?

I was on another site and a lot of their kids use mini trampolines. I found a good one on my local CL. It has a stabilizer bar to hold while jumping, but for fun, I should probably take him somewhere he can just jump his heart out.

I would have thought though that for most stim stuff that you would want to discourage it _ like flapping and jumping around - but then learning when it's OK and when it's inappropriate is probably the most important.

I think it's about channeling, not suppressing. We learned a lot from a small experiment we tried with our son. After reading in forums like this how self-calming the stims are, we decided to let our son go wild with them, in a way, while at home. Home is the safe place, where he can be himself. The results were incredible. Or purely co-incidental with a huge leap in maturity, lol, but I really think that couldn't be all of it - he has vocalized that allowing the stims has been good. We pretty much haven't seen a melt-down since. So ... hmmm ... funny behaviors, or melt-downs? DEFINITELY the former. The repetitive behaviors seem to be very important to his self-regulation. Good to know.

i prefer swingsets over trampolines. trampolines seem dangerous to me, or at least scary.

they have the inflatable bouncy ones with inflatable walls that would be good for your younger one.

I don't know about mini trampolines, but we had a real trampoline here for many years in our backyard and our son loved it.

I don't believe that it's really fair to try and suppress stimming. This is how Aspies deal with the pressures of reality. That said, encouraging proper places and times for stimming isn't a bad thing. I just think you have to deal with stimming in a positive way - it's part of who our children are, and if we're teaching them that they have to hide part of what makes them who they are - what message are we really sending? However, that all is easier said than done in a lot of cases.

Well, we picked it up today! I found the one I wanted on craigslist (Urban rebounder). When we got to the gal's house, my son saw the trampoline and knew what it was from a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode. He got all excited and wanted it back in the seat with him (it folds flat and goes in its own bag).

I brought it home and he was afraid to try it. So, my 12 year old did and then I did and then he got brave to bounce lightly with me. He ate some dinner and then lightly bounced again. Within two hours he wasn't holding the stabilizer bar any more and was just grins nonstop. I think he bounced a full hour tonight. He LOVES it! THough he was still bouncing on the hard wood floor too!

About aspergers and trampolins this is true with me. I jumped and flapped all the time when I was little and still do it sometimes.

Our son LOVES his mini trampoline. I highly recommend it when your son starts crashing into things or flapping. I would just ask our guy if he'd like to go jump on the trampoline and he'd say YES and RUN to go jump

Hi,
I use a "sensory" ball about 26 inches because I am 5'6. I do a lot of rocking, but especially when i listen to music or sitting at my computer, I do a lot of "bouncing" up and down and being a 5'6 106 lbs. adult, the bed and a chair is not a good place to "bounce" while sitting, so I bought a regular "sensory" ball for the radio listening, and one of those Chair balls ( a sensory ball with little "legs" under it) for my computer. When I sit I rock, but if I am doing something that excites me, especially computers and listening to radio, I tend to bounce up and down and rock at the same time. I hope this helps a lot.

Maya