Have you seen this article about taking a 5 month old baby to Glastonbury?

[beansprout]

A colleague of mine (quite a senior one at that!) took his 2 year old. The whole thing doesn't appeal to me anyway so I wouldn't consider it, but I have mixed views. Part of me thinks, "good on you, for not just staying at home for 16 years" and part of me is envious that they are so adventurous! The joy of v young babies is that they are so portable I suppose!!!

DS1 is 8 in december
anyway (which is a bit for me LOL)

I'm taking ds (4) to Green Man this year (free for under-12s). We went last year and had a fantastic time. Agree, beansprout - I must have missed the bit in antenatal classes where they told us we had to stay at home until they were 18!

Not sure I would bother with Glasto and kids, though. Too big and too muddy - that would piss me off

But festivals and small kids are a brilliant mix, imo!

Snaf, what is Green Man? I live near Green Man roundabout...Assuming it's not that!

Blimey green man loks good on the site- a bit aaarrrghhh because we're alreadya way.

Will go next year though i think, especially as we live quite close to Abergavenny anyway

Can't beleive we didnt know about it (wellc an as we're newish ehre but anyway)

It's lovely. Small and laidback, really fab for kids. I've raved about it on various threads over the past 12 months

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Yeah, ooops! Have you been before?

Indian Summer looks good as well. Some great bands. Glasgow's a bit far for us, though...

is green man not a bit too small? i saw 4000 mentioned. i've found very small fests can be a bit lacking in atmosphere. not knocking it, mind, there's a few people on this yrs lineup i'd love to see. but i suppose that's my reservation about going with small kids - you have to be prepared to follow their lead, so you can't guarantee you'll get to see anyone in particular. or you have to leave half way through your favourite song...

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Why would anyone do this?! Seems irresponsible IMO.

I can't understand what the appeal is of older people going to Glastonbury - if they want a weekend of mud they should come to my back garden as it's in a real state after the rain. If I put a CD of Madonna on ten miles away and charge £100 do you think people will come?

why irresponsible?

For people who like listening to live music, festivals are an opportunity to do so with kids, when going out to indoor gigs has become much more difficult. Glastonbury now is hard to get into for anybody, getting tickets etc too much of a hassle. But I'd quite like to take my recently born baby to some of a festival if I can sort out the way to get there etc.

I planned to go this year with the DC (4 & 16 months), but finances wouldn't allow.

You would obv be sensible and not take them in the middle of a crowd crush at a band!!

Personaly I don't see the point in taking really little ones, they are no missing out by not going.

Mud is fine for LO,s but at festivals its not normal mud, there is a lot more in it besides soil IYSWIM.

I will take mine when they are older, festivals like T in the Park and V festival are not geared up for young kids at all. I still wouldn't do festival camping with kids even when older, I would stay nearby in a cheap hotel or campsite. Mine will be put out to work at them as soon as they are old enough anyway .

would love to take my kids and dh to glasto.

i think we might go here

I mean irresponsible in the sense of why take such a young child into an event which is so unpredictable re. conditions, access to facilities etc etc. Sorry but I just don't get why someone would take a 5 month old to Glastonbury. Maybe a bit older, but not at this age - just seems a bit crazy to me. Sorry to be an old fogey

oh yeah, I'd forgot about the Archers story. ok, so maybe i'm wrong although I wouldn't like to try going there with my little one

Have fun Don't forget to pack your wellies

I just can't understand why people think it's irresponsible, I really can't. Going to Glasto doesn't automatically mean getting off your head and stage diving from the mosh pit - the article authors were obviously keeping well away from the crowds and experiencing a totally different Glasto to the ones they'd been to before.

In fact, probably the least safe part (and the most unchild friendly and boring) of the whole experience would have been the car journey to and from there - and you don't get outraged people blethering on about how selfish it is putting your child in a car do you know.

People love to get all hufty pufty (I'm talking about the comments on the BBC site by the way) about how now you're parents if you do anything that you might enjoy then you're selfish. 5 month old babies like to be with parents/family and to get loads of cuddles as well as being fed and kept warm & comfortable - that can be done in lots of places, not neccesarily at home or in some baby only ghetto. So why not get out and do something that you enjoy if the baby can come too?