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My 2p I have a 7 yr old and a 4 yr old.
Trailer gaitor. Utter shite. Great idea, but rubbish quality. Broke 2 of them. Probably fine for pootling along to the park on the smooth, but useless for anything more strenous.
Have 2 tag-a-longs (one folding that I got new for £10 from a monastry auction of all places). These are great. Stable and strong, take them off-road without a worry, and the boys love them. You can pretty much ride as if they are not there. NOTE: The newer square coupling system is a LOT better than the old one, which seemed to make the trailing bike lean for a lot of folks. Not light though, unless you pay silly money for the uprange ones. Also you can use your bike without them in seconds without a load of TG rubbish hanging off it.
When then were small (say, under 4) I replaced the ordinary seat on the tag-a-long with a bucket-style one originally from a top tube mounted seat (which is useless unless you have a REAL sit-up-and-beg Dutch style bike, otherwise their head is in your face/chin/chest all the time, and it's a bistard getting on and off as you can't slide forward off the saddle). I used this with the bars raked back, and took the pedals off (as they catch on stuff). It has 5 pint harness, and worked brilliantly on and off road - they loved it. Easy to fit just using the normal top-tube mount kit with a couple of extra holes drilled. Took 'em all over on that on and off road - kept my sanity together!