Camping Builds Family Relationships
Camping holds this family together. We do many of things as a family and it is usually means going out separate ways. We all come home to sleep, eat and shower and then we leave again. Through out childhood years for the kids we have maintained that it was important that we find some way despite our hurried lifestyle to reconnect somehow with quality time. Then about 5 years ago while the kids were still in middle school we fell into camping. It was an unexpected result of a choice that was forced on us because I would not in a million years choose camping otherwise of my own accord. Are you kidding? Going without basic necessities at that time in my life was unthinkable but we were made to go by the force of a family reunion. Now the necessities seem to be pared down to as little as a Stinger Flashlight at times but at that time our mother decided that because the cost of getting together was so high for all her kids and her grand kids that we should try to make this years family reunion a memorable one by making it a camping adventure. Camping adventure was actually the term she used. And boy was it an adventure to put it mildly, I am now sure the world is ready for anymore adventures like this one again anytime soon. Try getting together with 27 people that are used to getting their own way and calling all the shots. This included 7 different family units and mates and kids all in one camp ground. Every decision we made was by committee and man was there a lot of campaigning going on. After that year our family reunion and as a resulting of all the alliance building, posturing and subsequently all the politicking that went on for the duration of the days we were together, we grew into a much extended family as a result of finding out that we really did have each others back and even thought we had vastly different points of view we learned to respect those views and that we really did love each other and found ways to make it all work. So there you have the story of why camping became one families adventure relationship building at home albeit masked as a family vacation or get away. Inexpensive fun with a motive for relationship building.
Copyright Detro Canaro (2008) Detro Canaro is a husband, a father, a writer, computer tech and webmaster of several websites that support he and his family. One of those websites is a Flashlight Store that features Scorpion Flashlight, Coast Flashlight and others.
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