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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up RVing, and I do have some regrets that we're not taking the kids camping at least once a year.  Maybe we should start again, now that kids are 6 and 9.  We went tent camping with them once when they were 3 and 6 and it was HELL.  Even though it was car camping at a state park (and mercifully there were showers and bathrooms) it was HOT as HELL (it was like the hottest weekend of the summer).  We ran a fan into the tent and that helped some but still.  HOT.  Mosquitoes were BAD.  One child got two ticks and the other got 1.  The real kicker though was that everyone said, oh, the kids will wear themselves out and they will sleep like a dream.  Wrong.  They were so wound up by the novelty and the bouncy blow up mattresses they did not go to bed until almost midnight and woke up at 6 am.  AAAAAHHHHHHH.  That's been enough to turn us off camping ever since.  We will bunk up in my parents winnebago though once a year or so (AC, beds, lights, microwaves, etc).  I feel so inadequate.....[/quote]

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