Comments on: Camping With Family: Enjoying Creation and Simple Living Together

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:00:33 +0000

Fellow cacher & camper here in Ohio love it!! Haven't gotten out as much as I wanted to this year. Thanks for the article!

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:57:32 +0000

I was just browsing the internet and i came to this site... Actually, i got stocked with the inviting title. You share some interesting topics here and I really enjoy them, amazing photos too.
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By: Raquel

Raquel — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:59:48 +0000

This summer I came up with a plan, a family camping trip including my two little kids for the first time and it went so perfect. Camping with your kids is totally a different experience. It changed my perspective. Camping has a whole new meaning to me right now. Before it was all about having fun but now it is more than that. I felt more attached to nature and to my family.
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By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:21:29 +0000

We heart camping!

We live on the East Coast right now and have found the EVERY campground we have gone to (private or government owned) has flush toilets and showers for free (wait.. one did have them for $0.25). Which takes away the excuse of not liking to be dirty. And makes it super easy to do dishes!

My family uses camping as our "motel." On the East Coast there are SOO many great cities and sights to see. So we hedge our adventure costs by camping. For example, hotels in DC in the summer are $200 or more on a weekend. We stay at a campground in Virginia about 15 minutes away from a DC metro stop. Not only do we save money on the sleeping accomadations aspect, but we are also able to make our own breakfasts and dinners this way. So in otherwords, we don't mind paying $10 a head to go into a sight to learn things, because we save so much money on trip expenses.

Not to mention that camping means that we spend less time doing time dumps (aka tv) and more time learning to work together.

I still haven't found a good clean up/pack up situation. My daughter loves camping SOO much that she is so sad to leave that she shuts downs when it's time to pack up and go. Which leaves us all frustrated. BUT.. I still wouldn't trade our camping experiences for all the free 5 star hotel stays in the world.

By: Stacey

Stacey — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:47:08 +0000

i love to camp! but camping with children adds a whole new level of difficulty to the adventure. it's been easy for me to want to procrastinate us camping until our children are a bit older. my husband and i were talking about it recently and we decided that we wanted camping to be a family activity that we all enjoyed and shared together. in order for that to happen, we need to go frequently (even just once a summer) so we'll have the equipment and skills to make it fun rather than just a challenge. if our boys grow up camping, they're more likely to like camping with us even into their teenage years. that's our theory at least! .-= Stacey´s last blog ..We're home!!! =-.

By: Nola

Nola — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:47:18 +0000

@Colleen, I'm reading them to my 4 year old. She LOVES them and asks for more and more. I started just after she turned 4. I plan on reading them again to her when she is older too. She gets a lot of it, but like Stephanie said, some of it is beyond her. I do some explaining and also get a few kid's books out of the library showing pictures of those days, etc. like good non fiction ones of general stores, one room schools, etc. or even real history books with pictures just to show her and talk about, and that helps her understand some more.

By: Stephanie @ Keeper of the Home

Stephanie @ Keeper of the Home — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:50:24 +0000

@Colleen, I don't know how old Beth's kids were, but I started reading them with my daughter when she had just turned 4. Some of it was over her head, but she still really enjoyed them.

By: Lora

Lora — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:39:25 +0000

Great post!

I grew up camping in a RV, but my hubby & I do not have an RV (as much as I would love to own a vintage Silver Stream...:). So we are learning all about tent camping right now. We just got home yesterday from our 3rd try at it~and the most successful one! Our kiddos LOVE camping! I have to let go of some of my germaphobe ways to make it happen, but when I do that and just relax it's really great. I blogged about our experience here: http://myblessedlife-lora.blogspot.com/2010/06/adventures-in-camping-part-3.html
.-= Lora´s last blog ..Adventures in Camping: Part 3 =-.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:22:03 +0000

If you don't mind me asking--how old were your kids when you started reading the Little House series to them? My oldest is 5 1/2 and I wonder if it would hold her attention. I loved those books and can't wait to share them with her. Also, I love the idea of reading to your kids at lunchtime.

We're not a camping family, but have committed to participating in the Great American Backyard Campout this year--baby steps! Thanks for the great ideas!

By: katherine

katherine — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:39:06 +0000

we took our oldest (now 2.5) camping when he was 5 months. it was a very crisp night in early spring. we were so not prepared to take a little one into the chilly night! he almost froze until our friend gave us his stocking cap to roll up on the babe's head and i convinced my husband it was safer for me to sleep with our son in my mummy sleeping bag :) we're planning another trip for this fourth of july. we're meeting my in-laws, so we'll have two adults per kid, which should help! our baby is now nine months and only slightly mobile, so it should be a fun trip :) .-= katherine´s last blog ..meet me in...atlanta? =-.