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[quote=Anonymous]How much do your kids like it?

If I had a timid child, unable to do the physical tasks or who had trouble eating or sleeping on these trips, I would send my spouse and any kids who DO enjoy it every other year.

If all my kids loved these trips and it was my spouse’s opportunity to spend time with his siblings doing something he loves, I would suck it up. I grew up with a mother who called any place she could not plug in a curling iron “camping”. While we haven’t gone back country backpacking, I have learned to embrace a lot of new things. I learned how to ski despite being deathly afraid of ski lifts and heights. I know how to set up a tent and start a camp fire. Every single vacation we go on involves kayaking somehow - despite the fact that wet rental life vests make me gag as does the thought of tipping and potentially putting my feet in mud and vegetation. I have learned how to stand up paddle board and zip line. I have done a lot of things that involved being more hot, cold, sticky, sandy, and muddy than I prefer to be. I look at it as an opportunity to show my kids that we can all try new things and learn new things. They see me be brave and go into these “adventures” with an open mind and often I end up having fun. I grew up with an anxious mother whose every comment is always about what is wrong or what could go wrong - it’s really draining to be around such constant negativity. I don’t force my kudos to do things they hate or things they are truly terrified of, but I do nudge them out of their comfort zone and try to set an example by doing the same myself. [/quote]

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