Vos-enfants-sont-plutôt-cartable-ou-sac-à-dos Caramel & cie

Do your children prefer school bags or backpacks?

Our children are increasingly influenced by brands, and they are asking for a backpack earlier and earlier.

To be like the grown-ups!

The problem is that most backpacks on the market are not really adapted to their body shape, even though they carry an increasingly heavy weight as they progress through the levels.

According to the FCPE (Parents' Federation), a full schoolbag in grades 4 and 5 weighs an average of 8.5 kg. Your child weighs approximately 30 kg on average. Therefore, they carry nearly a third of their body weight on their back every day! Physiologists recommend not exceeding 10%, or 3 kg!

The back problems our children experience are dramatic. And, paradoxically, school bags (not all of them!) are better suited than backpacks to minimize this problem of the weight of school supplies.

We put a lot of energy and know-how into designing school bags that respect your children's growth! Faced with the increasing demand for backpacks from primary school children, we decided two years ago to tackle this problem by launching backpacks designed like our school bags .

Their design, construction, size , and weight are calculated to adapt to your children's body shape and optimally distribute the weight they carry between their shoulders and lower back without hindering their breathing or movement. But that's not all; our backpacks meet all of our brand's requirements:


• They are sturdy
• They are ergonomic, adapted to the morphology of our children
• They are lightweight
• They are comfortable
• They are stylish, designed to appeal to both children and parents.
• They are responsible, ethically manufactured with a significant proportion of recycled materials
• They are distributed by small, independent, local businesses.
So you no longer need to refuse your child the backpack they ask for… if it’s a Caramel & cie !

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