Fishing and Family Bonding

One most enjoyable activities anyone can practice is fishing. This can be freshwater fishing, on a stream, a river, trolling on a lake or saltwater fishing. You are in touch with nature and away from urban and city life. Fishing provides an opportunity to share this with your children.

Many anglers were lucky enough to start their fishing with their father. The experience of sharing goes both ways - dad to child and child to dad. From the fathers point of view it provides an opportunity not only to share and be with your son or daughter but also a special time to observe and get to know the way he or she acts, the way the child responds and in many ways his or her personality.

All parents should know their children - at the same time build up trust and security a good parent to child relationship should develop. At normal healthy child that grows up in a family environment that promotes values, respect and love of life will intuitively know that fathers are unbeatable, strong and are what heroes are made from.

When you take your child with you fishing and you take the time to teach, in other words when you are patient, your son or daughter will develop a love of the outdoors, a love of fishing and perhaps even more importantly, memories that will stay with them always. These memories will always provide a feeling of the "good times'. The father figure, that sadly in this day and age is not what it should be, becomes one of the most important ingredients, if you could call it that, in the life of any person.

The fishing side of things while providing a scenario for teaching and obviously the whole art of fishing, is also an excuse for conversation, sharing, teaching and bonding. Much of what is shared provides practical examples, and therefore become second nature, of how to act in different circumstances. Patience, frugality, respect for nature and life in general, persistence and so many other values that will always stay with the child.

Above all the time together, the sharing and the conversations on all sorts of subjects are solid character building experiences. The child learns by doing and by observing. Fishing with a parent provides both of these. They say imitation is the highest form of flattery and your child will want to act like you, want to be like you and he will want to fish like you and therefore these are one of the best moments for both of you.

In the final analysis, it is also great fun and possibly you will be helping to develop you future fishing partner - say twenty years down the line. The probabilities will also be very high that he in turn will also teach his child to fish and so the cycle repeats itself, to the benefit of all.

Dog detects Earthquake

www.oasishd.ca - A 5.0 magnitude earthquake shook Quebec and Ontario residents recently. Natural disasters can be detected by our canine friends long before we can detect it. Has your dog given you signs of impending natural disasters?



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Nature and Fun in Family Style Camping Tents

A family camping trip can be a fun time for everyone, but the time may come when the entire family will not want to be in the same room with everyone else. This probably sounds familiar as if you were at home. Well, new styles of family tents help provide a solution with separate spaces for anywhere from two to four rooms, though all are connected in one main tent. These divisions do not provide separation for noise but do provide separation enough allowing some family members to be relax in his or her "own space."

In the originally family tents, it was not uncommon to need to pass through the first one or two rooms to reach the back of the camping tent. It was basically unavoidable that the camper in the front room would be disturbed every time someone entered and exited the tent. Families with younger children can appreciate this, but the time comes when the children are older and everyone will desire entries to the tent in other locations as well.

Today, family tents can be purchased with entries in a front location as well s the back providing for more separation between campers. This also allows a space for more storage, supplies or even more people toward the center of the tent. A floor in the tent helps campers keep dry during wet an rainy weather. Campers can also have slightly more privacy when dressing in the mornings and preparing for that day's exploration or activities.

Family camping tents are a great option for families that camp often and a good investment. On the country, those families that only camp sporadically may find the price to be quite high and not worth the investment. The family camping occasionally may want to consider renting a family sized tent from a rental company or a campground which offer family tents at reasonable prices. This will be considerably lower in cost as opposed to purchasing one that may be used only a couple times and left in storage the majority of the time.

Generally, family can often comfortably fit four campers into a 12-foto by 12-foot family tent, though cooperation will be needed for the privacy aspect of camping. But, a couple nights outdoors amidst nature is a fairly inexpensive alternative to the cost of a hotel.

For years, families used the large, one-room camping tents for the entire families which may be fine while the kids are young. There is no reason to let the camping trips stop, though, after the kids grow older as many families find happens. With the large, multi-room style camping tents available today there are no excuses to stop a family camping tradition. Simply graduate the family into a larger camping tent geared toward more privacy, space and convenience for everyone.