I appreciate the responses to my last post. I'm very interested in this topic. As a parent, I want to learn all I can to do a better job with my kids
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A few more thingselanortheeldestFebruary 7 2005, 18:48:52 UTC
* lots of reading aloud * Homeschooling * Not doing many age-segregated activities. This has changed slightly as we now have some definite gaps: my 6 yo brother didn't go with us to see HP in the theatre, for example, but we generally try to put a great deal of emphasis on doing things as a family.
We tried doing special individual dates for a while, but we're a somewhat disorganized group of people and it never worked out. Special days out with a parent just happen in the general scheme of life, I suppose.
How many kids are in your family? I'm pretty daunted by the logistics of camping with a family of our size. Mr. Tom takes the boys and girls on separate short camping trips each summer. He would like to take them more frequently, but somehow it always seems hard to squeeze it in.
There are 7 children in our family. Although we haven't been camping in the last year and a half*, we used to do it on a fairly regular basis. Partly this was because it was so much cheaper than a hotel; our vacations would consist of going on our trips and staying in campgrounds along the way. We once camped all the way up from Indiana to Alaska (going through Canada). We only had 3 kids in the family then, though
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Lots of camping. :)
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* Not doing many age-segregated activities. This has changed slightly as we now have some definite gaps: my 6 yo brother didn't go with us to see HP in the theatre, for example, but we generally try to put a great deal of emphasis on doing things as a family.
We tried doing special individual dates for a while, but we're a somewhat disorganized group of people and it never worked out. Special days out with a parent just happen in the general scheme of life, I suppose.
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