http://www.achildgrows.com/2008/04/28/camping-successes-and-failures/ The home for Brooklyn parents Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:13:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.achildgrows.com/2008/04/28/camping-successes-and-failures/comment-page-1/#comment-8217 A Child Grows Event Picks | A Child Grows in Brooklyn Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:45:41 +0000 http://localhost/achildgrowsinbrooklyn.com/?p=472#comment-8217 [...] in our family and are so excited to take Cedar on another camping trip. Here is my post about our successes and failures of our trip. and read this for other parents’ suggestions. At any rate, the Prospect Park Zoo’s new [...] [...] in our family and are so excited to take Cedar on another camping trip. Here is my post about our successes and failures of our trip. and read this for other parents’ suggestions. At any rate, the Prospect Park Zoo’s new [...]

]]> http://www.achildgrows.com/2008/04/28/camping-successes-and-failures/comment-page-1/#comment-259 joyce szuflita Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:20:19 +0000 http://localhost/achildgrowsinbrooklyn.com/?p=472#comment-259 We have been camping with our kids for almost 10 years, since they were 5. It is one of those family traditions that they are not willing to give up, even as teenagers with lots of hair products and fashion issues. Each year I would buy one more small camping item and now we have a well stocked "kitchen box" that remains packed and ready for a spontaneous weekend trek. The things that I couldn't live without: a pie iron (it is an over the fire grilled sandwich maker, and we use it for every meal), the hammock, my plastic french press coffee maker, the compressed wood fire starter sticks and "All Creatures Great and Small" by James Herriott, which we read aloud to each other in the evenings. We have never finished it because we always go to sleep too soon, but it is my most cherished time with my family. We have been camping with our kids for almost 10 years, since they were 5. It is one of those family traditions that they are not willing to give up, even as teenagers with lots of hair products and fashion issues. Each year I would buy one more small camping item and now we have a well stocked “kitchen box” that remains packed and ready for a spontaneous weekend trek. The things that I couldn’t live without: a pie iron (it is an over the fire grilled sandwich maker, and we use it for every meal), the hammock, my plastic french press coffee maker, the compressed wood fire starter sticks and “All Creatures Great and Small” by James Herriott, which we read aloud to each other in the evenings. We have never finished it because we always go to sleep too soon, but it is my most cherished time with my family.

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