Comments on: Why Family Camping? http://www.campingblogger.net/camping/why-family-camping.html Read CampingBlogger and Take the Kids Camping Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:07:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.campingblogger.net/camping/why-family-camping.html/comment-page-1#comment-87 admin Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:16:52 +0000 http://www.campingblogger.net/?p=98#comment-87 Hah, hah! That is so true, Sis. I think it's the best way for our kids to learn how to problem solve and learn how to deal with adversity too; by watching mom and dad do it. Curse those raccoons! Our front yard looks like it has been plowed - the local raccoon family has been rooting-up the grass in search of grubs. Hah, hah! That is so true, Sis. I think it’s the best way for our kids to learn how to problem solve and learn how to deal with adversity too; by watching mom and dad do it.

Curse those raccoons! Our front yard looks like it has been plowed – the local raccoon family has been rooting-up the grass in search of grubs.

]]> By: Sis Kiteri http://www.campingblogger.net/camping/why-family-camping.html/comment-page-1#comment-85 Sis Kiteri Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:04:06 +0000 http://www.campingblogger.net/?p=98#comment-85 Before we got married 11 years ago, our pastor sat us down to "pre-marital counseling videos". In one of those videos, the presenter said that the best thing you can do to build a strong family is to camp together! The reason he cited was so simple. Surviving adversity together makes relationships stronger, and there is ALWAYS adversity when you camp: 1. The tent will leak and you will have to arrange your sleeping bags around the buckets that catch the drips, and then you will all be piled in the back of the station wagon when the drip buckets are overflowing! 2. The raccoons will root through your kitchen tent and manage to get your "raccoon proof" cooler open. Then you will all get the joy of slicing off the portions of the cheese that have chew marks before you make your toasted cheese sandwiches. 3. Dad will get poison ivy on his ankles, from now wearing the right socks like Mom told him to. Then you will all be driving through strange little towns on a Sunday, when everything is closed, desperate for calamine lotion. Ah... good times... good times! Before we got married 11 years ago, our pastor sat us down to “pre-marital counseling videos”.

In one of those videos, the presenter said that the best thing you can do to build a strong family is to camp together!

The reason he cited was so simple. Surviving adversity together makes relationships stronger, and there is ALWAYS adversity when you camp:

1. The tent will leak and you will have to arrange your sleeping bags around the buckets that catch the drips, and then you will all be piled in the back of the station wagon when the drip buckets are overflowing!

2. The raccoons will root through your kitchen tent and manage to get your “raccoon proof” cooler open. Then you will all get the joy of slicing off the portions of the cheese that have chew marks before you make your toasted cheese sandwiches.

3. Dad will get poison ivy on his ankles, from now wearing the right socks like Mom told him to. Then you will all be driving through strange little towns on a Sunday, when everything is closed, desperate for calamine lotion.

Ah… good times… good times!

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