Recent content by Druss

No offence taken at all. The oldest is 16 stone, has literally no muscle at all, i'm talking not even under the fat. He has no strength at all. I too have seen kids who are into gaming go on and do well, one friend of the family has just gone to uni to become a games designer. But this kid has...

Thanks for that. I share that feeling of despair. Unfortunately i see more and more that these type kids aren't even rare. It doesn't look good for the future I'm afraid. Me and my wife are trying for kids and are determined that they will not be raised like this. I know it's easy to say when we...

You're bang right with them expecting to be carried by an adult all the time. they have always been spoilt and have had every game or toy they wanted. My first Christmas with the family i nearly passed out with the money that was spent by their nanna and aunties. Neither has any understanding of...

I think i am going to try that next time, make sure i have plenty of stuff with me to get things going. It's hard to switch thinking as me and my wife pack everything in our bags that we need so tend to keep it light and challenge ourselves to find what we need (and failing to do so more than...

I wish I still had my first knife I have no idea what happened to it. It was a non locker and was shaped like a fish. Would love to have kept it.

We have tried and tried with their mother but it feels like she doesn't care. She promises to do this and that and never delivers, this is why we take them out whenever we can and take them comping too. We have them stay over at ours as often as we can. When they are at home they eat nothing but...

Thanks i just checked google play store and there are quite a lot. Got to be worth a go. Neither are great readers mind but i will have a look at some of them and see what is good, I have books but i guess they must seem like dusty old scrolls to kids these days.

Thanks for that, I tried showing them how to use the real compass and map but they were not taking it in at all, but the oldest one has a smartphone so i could look for some apps that would be of use. I have let the oldest one light the fire on every trip so far. He is keen to do it but gets...

I have let them both have a go with saw and the older one with the hatchet, but i could not get him to understand the importance of not having his leg in range of his axe swing if he misses, i had to pull him on it well over a dozen times in about half an hour. I too carried a pen knife from an...

Cheers Toddy, it's tricky as they aren't our kids so we have very little influence on them outside of the camping trips. We try taking them for days out places. We tried a place the other week in Bradford the has a zip line, big rope swing, l-slide, bucking bronco and the like. But they wouldn't...

We do tend to keep quite an active camp, there is always something going on be it chopping and sawing or something else, i took the stones and sharpened my hatchet and knife on this trip and we made some nettle cordage to tie a bin bag up for use. Neither wanted to have a go at any of this, they...

The eldest one is really into a game called Warthunder a flying combat sim, he's also really into the Fallout games which is something we have in common. The youngest one is just Minecraft all the way. I try to get them to go off and do things on their own but they both cling to us like glue and...

Thanks for the responses. I must confess I have limited knowledge of minecraft, although I do own it. It's an interesting idea and I can see comparison between the 2. I'll boot it up one day next week and see what I can come up with. My flint and steel got a reaction which was to do with...

Has anybody got any suggestions to keep lazy brain-dead computer addict kids entertained on a camp-site or out in the woods through the day or on an evening? Here's the situation. My wife an I get out camping a lot, winter and summer lately. We have a great time just the 2 of us either on a...

Thanks it sounds like a decent place, have you been before? If so was it busy? sometimes fields like that can really cram you together. If it's decent the location would be perfect for us. Could be there in less than an hour.