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Topic: How old is old enough for pup tent?

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tlcs

06/2/2011 at 10:05pm
Location: West Sussex
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Think it depends on the child & on the site. My son has been sleeping in a pup tent since last season. He has just turned 12 years old. We have caravanned for about 4 years now & he used to go with my parents since he was a toddler also he goes on a lot of camps with scouts so he is really used to it.

We use a combination of big sites & CL's & strangley enough I feel safer on a CL site in the middle of nowhere. I quite often go to a CL just the kid's & me with hubby left at home if he is working. I always feel safe. In fact I am probably safer in a field in the middle of nowhere than I would be in my house in built up suburbia!

As someone said before a shout would be heard if there was a problem.

Rik Brooks

07/2/2011 at 5:11pm
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Don't know about what's safe nowadays but in the mid "nineties" my daughters used to go in a frame tent and I slept in a small tent and they were fine.

Guess they would have been fourteen and ten when they went in a tent on their own but I was just a few feet away.

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JFK001

10/2/2011 at 2:15pm
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Thanks for all your replies...We're off to Go Outdoors this weekend to buy the pup tent!

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carperjake

10/2/2011 at 3:45pm
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I was garden camping at the age of 9, on my own, Xmas nite in my new tent!

It depends on the maturity of the youngster rather than a hard and fast age.

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Coming soon to a campsite near you, Jake, Mrs Jake, Little legs, Bosdog the Doodle and Olly the Cavachon.

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August: Scarborough, High Yedmandale. Not tenting though, using one of their lovely holiday homes!

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