Children who go camping do better at school and are happier and healthier

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According to this study anyway!
www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Children-camping-better-school-happier-healthier/story-26554725-detail/story.html#1TCfzkUV22h0jRVG.99

It isn't even correlation! Just that the parents believe it is good. Parents whose children do sport or play music or read books would probably say the same. It sounds like crap research.

a study carried out by the Institute of Education at Plymouth University and the Camping and Caravan Club

There you go. Shame on Plymouth University for publishing this paid-for nonsense. And I love camping. But really!

If you pay attention to the article the "study" says nothing of the sort.

It says that parents who take their children camping
(you might admit not the most unbased sample)
THINK that it has a positive effect on their children's education and happiness.

Parents who do a thing, think that thing is good for their children, says study sponsored by people who want you to do that thing as well...

Bollocks.

Camping can be as miserable as any other form of holiday and parents can be as crap in a tent as in a 5 star hotel.

Fwiw I and my dds hate camping. My dh and dss love it.

Which proves the point that women are far cleverer.

A soggy dirty tent, cooking in a gas ring, the 4am toilet walk outside, never feeling clean verses a soft bed with ensuite.

No contest.

I certainly think camping is a positive experience for children- and adults. There is something very satisfying about ditching the Wi-Fi for a few days and getting back to basics.

We are happy campers tho, so I am biased.

I don't care if camping will win my DC the Booker prize. No thank you.

We couldn't take ds camping. He would keep everyone around us awake for half the night or be trying to get of the tent as soon as it got light.

You can get back to basics of family life by playing board games together or charades in a hotel room or a caravan.

You don't have to sleep on an air bed, eat beans or walk to the toilet in the rain at 4am to do this. Yeuk!

Lol what a stupid article!

And op is feeling all righteous because she believes it, haha!

The headline should be "University of Plymouth has no problem lending its name for money". Honestly, if my dc was planning filling in a UCAS form I would think twice about recommending such an institution.

Wow. Does that mean that my sister and I, who went camping for two weeks with our parents every year, plus Guide and Church camps, would have done less well at school if all our holidays had been in hotels?
I don't think so!

Bollocks survey, they asked the parents who took their kids camping if they thought they were happier and did better at school. Biased much?

However I do love camping and can't wait until my kids are old enough to go!

#firstworldproblems

Fuck that. My children will just have to be plebs. I fucking hate camping.

wheres the op gone?

I'm a rock climbing/abseiling/hiking lover and I hate camping in the UK, I refuse to go. Yet I actually quite like camping in Australia. It's lovely in a swag looking up at the stars after a BBQ and beer. I can't define the difference but there is a difference.

My kids go camping with Scouts. That counts right?

Our own tent has been used once. Maybe we should use it in the holidays!

purpleflamingo

The weather perhaps

I quite enjoyed our campimg trips in NZ. I've made desperate excuses to avoid them now that we are back in Ireland!

My 7 year old hates camping the poor thing. He loves hiking though and will happily go on long walks with the dog. He'd stay out all day long until bedtime then he wants to go home. He doesn't even like sleep overs or hotels much!

I do think that putting together a packed lunch for us both and grabbing the dog to go spend a long day outdoors is extremely beneficial to his health though

I don't think its camping, I think the being outdoors means your probably not on your phones/ iPads etc, probably interacting more than at home. So as a family your engaged with one another

My pils took their children camping regularly when they were kids, my husband has said he'd rather chew his own arm off than go camping ever again. Not sure it made him "happier and healthier" . However getting on a plane, going somewhere warm, not having to lift a finger for a week makes him very happy.

I hate these 'studies'
What complete & utter bollocks.

They wouldn't say those things if they saw us camping.

DD generally sits in the car with her head in her iPad whilst DH and I nearly end up murdering each other erecting the tent.

We generally spend days out and about (including indoor museums and the cinema with a bucket of popcorn and fizzy pop if the weather is pants)

DD would run a mile before she'd go and introduce herself to a group of random kids to hang out with and we generally spend our evenings in the club house rather than watching the sunset with a glass of wine and playing cards by candlelight (although I'd prefer the latter).

In short we are living proof that camping doesn't have to be wholesome and outdoorsy!

Far too many 'generally's' there