Do you ever leave the kids at home?

you could rent them out as child laborers…

hey it will be a learning experience for the kids and the parents… one thing you need to remember is that camping alone could led to the need of a third bunk later…

one thing I found out though is the day comes to soon when you lose control over what they want to do, and you will be wishing they were there… but everyone needs some time for themselves to…

My kids (9 and 11) love camping, but I'm pretty sure they'd choose a weekend at grandma's any time over camping with mom and dad...

TOOBOLD wrote:
As much as we enjoy camping as a family DH and I are wanting to go by ourselves without the kids (12,7). No, I don't plan on leaving them home alone, but with grandma. How many of you go alone? How much grief do you get from the kids for ditching them?

My Grandkids think their parents don't leave them with me often ENOUGH.

And I agree!

Yep, done that in past years. I think its good for the kids and family.

On his first camping trip at 5 months old, Grandma came to the campsite and hung around until we told her she could take him home for the weekend. Our son and grandma were gone in 5 minutes!!

My son and daughter in-law have no problems at all leaving the kids with us.

Why do you need our approval or disapproval? It's your life you don't need my permission to live it as you see fit.

I see nothing wrong with it...sometimes parents need alone time

We leave our kids with the grandkids all the time

We never did that but we didn't have any family close to leave them with. I don't see anything wrong with it...All parent's need a break from time to time and I'm sure Grandma will love to have them for a few days! The kids will get over being "ditched"! (Our kids did go to Grandma's for a week in the summer but we were both working, not on a trip.)