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Quote: Originally posted by fran1000 on 17/6/2013

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There's no way you'd catch me camping with little ones.

When OH's son was 2, we went to Ireland for 2 weeks and even staying in a house he was a complete menace. He was Tantrums-R-Us for most of the time, decided he wasn't potty trained after all and ran out of clean, dry pants and trousers (he couldn't manage a wee in the last dry pair, so he sat in a puddle instead), got us queuing in the pouring rain for over an hour for fish and chips and then threw them on the floor, insisted on having a bottle of orange juice with a straw in a pub and then threw the bottle, scoring a direct hit on the barman's head, somewhow manage to escape from the house and toddle across the road, down a track and on to the beach and ended the holiday standin on his seat screaming for the entire duration of the flight back from Dublin and refusing to sit down for landing. That's just highlights, there are many, many more horror stories.

He was an exceptionally large and beefy kid, with a physical strength that matched his will of iron, so short of beating him into submission there was a limit to what you could get him to do.

I vowed I would never go on holiday with a child again. I'm still traumatised by it and he'll be 23 next month. And, astonishingly, he's grown up to be prefectly nice.

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Quote: Originally posted by mkn9139 on 17/6/2013

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I'm looking forward to the day when i've got grandchildren to take camping (hopefully not for a few years yet though) As much as my teenagers still enjoy coming with me I miss the excitment and enthusiasm of littlies, playing games, keeping them entertained, passing on the love of camping to another generation.

My middle daughter said that when they've all got kids i'll be pinching them on weekends to go camping

Not that i'm not looking forward to trips without them ....we have plans for when the kids have flown the nest too

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Borrow my teens for a weekend camp.....we play silly games,(think headbandz, catch the smarties etc), go walking and have competitions to find the biggest leaf/stone/twig etc. They don't care about being cool when camping, we all find our inner child and let them free

Quote: Originally posted by daveslisa on 17/6/2013

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Quote: Originally posted by mkn9139 on 17/6/2013I'm looking forward to the day when i've got grandchildren to take camping (hopefully not for a few years yet though) As much as my teenagers still enjoy coming with me I miss the excitment and enthusiasm of littlies, playing games, keeping them entertained, passing on the love of camping to another generation.

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My middle daughter said that when they've all got kids i'll be pinching them on weekends to go camping

Not that i'm not looking forward to trips without them ....we have plans for when the kids have flown the nest too

Borrow my teens for a weekend camp.....we play silly games,(think headbandz, catch the smarties etc), go walking and have competitions to find the biggest leaf/stone/twig etc. They don't care about being cool when camping, we all find our inner child and let them free <img align="absmiddle" src="forum_images/smiley4.gif" width="17" alt="17">

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