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Quote: Originally posted by Sullivan2007 on 13/5/2009

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My elder daughter's job is to ensure our pitch is free of evil spirits.  She does this by running round and round and round it, making a variety of loud and happy noises whilst waving her arms.

 

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 My children used to pass us the tentpegs, take the kettle for water and make an attempt at pumping up the airbeds (with a foot pump) let him try knocking in a peg or two and set up his own sleeping area.

if you really can't cope with him helping buy him a suprise to keep him occupied. A bat with a sponge ball or a quoits game.

Quote: Originally posted by brookekim on 13/5/2009

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we like to go to a site with an outside swimming  pool, so mine wear their swimming stuff in the car and  when we get there we send them off swimming whilst we set up!

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Last summer our two were completely different. Out eldest (then 6) took one look at the howling wind and driving rain out of the car window and announced that he would sit in the car, listen to music and look at a book. Our youngest (then 3) announced that he wanted to help. so we dressed him and us up in waterproofs and he helped us mainly at first by sitting on bits of tent etc to stop them disapearing in the wind and then by carrying things for us.

I think you have to let them help if they want to and just grit your teeth, if the weather had not been so awful I would have insisted our eldest helped also.

Cheers