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31/3/2013 at 11:18pm
Location: North West England
Outfit: Vango Maritsa 600
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We camped for the first time with our daughter when she was 18 months and it was easier than we thought.
Make sure you take the potty and keep it in the tent to save early/late night walks to toilet. (we actually kept one in the car until she was completely potty trained, was a real godsend when we got stuck in a traffic jam!).
Take plenty of colouring in books and washable felt tips, also the travel aqua draw things are great too.
Take a nightlight/hot water bottle to reassure her when going to bed. Provide her with her own little torch.
I downloaded some children's stories onto my iphone to help her drift off to sleep amongst all the campsite talk, once I had read her a book.
Take loads of clothes (I totally underestimated this) She loved playing outside the tent with empty pans and a bottle of water, as well as playing with the water tap and mud near to our tent.
Windbreaks create a great barrier/wall around your camp area, if you really feel you need it take a travelcot, this proves useful if you are cooking and want to make sure she isn't near the stove/campfire.
We lit the fire after she went to bed when she was this young, to avoid any accidents.
Make sure you have the nearest NHS out of hours number stored to your phone (get it from the campsite when you get there).
Depending on how adventurous she is (mine could find the front door key and let herself out of the house as soon as she was walking!) So you may want to lock the tent somehow for your own reassurance you don't have an escapee on your hands! (maybe a small padlock on the zips from the inside?)
You know your daughter better than anyone else, so I am sure you have considered all the above.
Make sure you take the marshmallows and hot chocolate, that was always my childhood memory of camping.
Enjoy, they love it.
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