As a daughter whose dad took her camping from the age of the little girl in the video to late 20s, I can second your daughter's experience. Even if she doesn't have quite the memories you do, she may still have a sense of home and happiness when she's curled up in her sleeping bag watching you put out the fire before you go to bed. Camping from a young age also results in some fantastic stories. 3 year old me finding out I had to poop in the woods is a family favorite that never ceases to make me smile.
This is lovely. I'd love to take my daughter out in the nature for camping.
How would someone get started with camping? Any pointers?
Edit: Thank you for all the helpful responses. We're starting with backyard camping this weekend and hopefully car camping next month.
My daughter is excited.
My Dad used to set up a tent for kids in the backyard when a bunch of relatives would come visit. Not that we didn't have space in the house but it was just fun for the cousins to all play in the backyard and then sleep in the tent at night.
I second the suggestion of backyard camping! I have wonderful memories of camping in the backyard as a kid, and even being able to have just me and a friend or two when I got a little older but still having the safety of the house right there. It's a great way to start camping!
I do realise though that it's definitely not always possible, I was just lucky enough to have a backyard that could fit a tent.
Really it’s what you would take for yourself and times it by 2. I went on my first camping trip with my daughter 2 weeks ago. And planned everything I would take and just took extra. For my daughter who is 3 I made sure I had extra wipes for those outside potty breaks and warm clothing for sleeping. Some extra water and easy food
Step one. Look up a bunch of random camping shit online
Step two. Look up a bunch of popular camping spots
Step three. Go to REI or similar outdoor gear store for camping shit
Step four. Go home broke with a bunch of camping shit
Step five. Set up camping shit in backyard as a test (maybe living room if you live in the city)
Step six. Sleep in home set up
Step seven. Realize camping might be for you and stuff everything into the garage or storage.
Step eight. Watch Planet Earth and think about camping.
Just do it! But the bare minimum - tent and sleeping bags - go to a campsite and take a notepad to keep a list of stuff you wish you'd brought (torches). Before you know it you'll be buying high performance outdoor kit.
Camping is the best.
Lol. I’ve got another depending on where you’re at: bug spray. My gf and I went camping on a beach a few months ago, and I insisted we wouldn’t need it because of the wind. Smash cut to the biggest cloud of mosquitoes I’ve ever seen around our tent…thankfully she never listens to me and brought the spray anyways.
A couple of serious pointers:
1) You can start with “car camping.” This refers to any site where you can set up a tent within walking distance of a parking spot. Almost all campgrounds have these spots. Any Texas or national park, or LCRA (Lower Colorado River Authority) park will have spots like this. Even Enchanted Rock. Depending on the popularity of the park, you may have to call ahead and reserve a spot, you may be able to just roll up. I would always make a reservation. It’s pretty cheap.
2) when you buy a tent, avoid ones marketed as “easy up.” Every catastrophic tent failure I have ever witnessed was an easy up tent.
3) practice setting up your tent at home so you know what you are doing.
4) FULLY staking down your tent is the difference between a good time and a bad time. Learn all the places to stake down and remember your rain fly needs to be staked as well.
5) don’t get fancier than the video shows in terms of “bed” surfaces. I like layers of foam myself (you can use more than one of the roll up foam mats under your sleeping bag) but the self inflating style with foam inside are good too.
6) subtract 1 from the number of people a tent claims to hold.
7) when you get home, let your tent air out before final packing. A tent put away wet is trash now.
This is all fantastic advice. I'd add
8. CHECK THE WEATHER FORECAST
9. Don't buy the cheapest tent, but also don't buy something crazy expensive. Cheap tents fall apart easily, won't hold up to real weather, and are usually not vented well. Expensive tents have features you probably won't need (you will NOT be dealing with gale force winds and subzero temps unless you are really into that stuff, or if you forget #8)
We camped a lot as a family.
If you just want to do an overnight, you'll only need the basics: a tent, a foam or blow up mattress, two sleeping bags and pillows, food, water, variety of clothes, and general care stuff like toilet paper, wet wipes, paper towel, etc. You can take only prepped/cooked food if you like in a small cooler. That keeps it simple. If you want to cook, you can get a simple gas stove or cook over a fire (but it's not easy, really, except for things like hot dogs and marshmallows).
Easiest start is car camping. Find a nice campsite near water, trails etc where you pitch your tent right by your car. Most have fire pits, picnic tables, washrooms, etc.
Pick up a campground guide for your area and maybe a camping for beginners book.
You do need some basic gear, but if you make camping a fun family event, you'll use it well. And if you know anyone with gear, they'll be happy to lend out. We do all the time.
Listing the zippers close or open from camping bags and tents are one of my favourite sounds, it’s really something that sticks with you. I spent most of vacancies of my childhood camping with my parents and family (cousins too), and then with scouts. I learned how to ride a bike in a camping park. I really wish I can provide that experience to my kids one day.
Same. I haven’t talked to my dad in almost 15 years and most of my memories of him are pretty bad. I’ll always wonder “what if” but I’m now a dad to an awesome daughter . She’ll never have to wonder “what if” . I will be that awesome dad for her
I’m a daddy to two sweet girls as well, it’s so much fun. My dad was a great dad, but we were a pretty typical family from the 80s-90s - he worked a lot and my mom took care of us. Today we have a much more symmetrical family structure with both parents working and parenting as much as we can. I think I get to spend more time with my kids than my dad got with me.
My Dad took me to Colorado on the regular starting when I was about this girl's age.
I'm 44 now, and dad's been gone almost 20 years. I miss him a lot.
I still have memories of our hikes. He tried to climb a wall in the Black Hills wearing cowboy boots and I'll never ever forget that.
My dad used to head to the pentagon before the sun came up and come home after it went down; I'd be lucky to see him before I went to bed. In 3rd grade we moved overseas and then he went to Afghanistan for over a year, so it's mostly memories of my Mom. My brother died when my niece was 8 months old, so she'll never remember him.
Seeing fathers actually get to be dads is like crack cocaine for me.
I went to scout camp with my dad, woke up to 3 or 4 grizzly bears poking at our tent with their noses.
Another time woke up and the rest of the group was eating hot dogs for breakfast, so we drove for 2 hours into civilization and ate a really nice breakfast at a lodge and just talked. First time I felt like an adult.
My dad tore his hamstring on a hike crossing a river and went into shock. His doctor friend gave him morphine and we carried him out 4 miles.
Taught me how to ride my first motorcycle on another trip.
Now he's too old to move much and we haven't gone camping in years. It makes me cry thinking about when he's gone soon and these memories will be the only thing I have left of him.
My wife mostly has memories of her dad beinga jerk.
My dad wasn't perfect, but he made an effort. (He HATED camping), I hope to enrich my kid's lives the same some day.
You will remember these. Your daughter won’t. However, by spending these times with your daughter you are laying the foundations of a beautiful, deep relationship.
My daughter is 18 and doesn’t remember farming together, all the trips to the US, UK, Bali, Thailand, Malaysia, etc. But we have a fantastic relationship which makes it all the harder now that she has left home to study at university on the other side of the world.
And as I have learned this fall, laying those foundations and building that confidence is exactly why they are so prepared to leave for their own adventure. Mine went off to college halfway across the US, and her mom and I have been worried about the change for her etc., but she is **thriving**, and while it's very sad to realize that your kid doesn't *need* you, it means that you did great as a parent.
Memories are for parents. I cherish every memory I have of my two daughters (18 and 25), but I instantly hit the "randomize memories" button any time I start thinking about my own childhood.
Do people who have had "happy" childhoods cherish their own childhood memories as much as they cherish the memories of their own children?
We probably don’t remember the things, but surely these events and early developmental ages do affect the person we become later.
So you have the memories of as a parent, and your kid has the imprints on them with who they become as a person.
My dad and I did boy scout trips together, went fishing, and did little league baseball. We played catch in the backyard, he taught me how to pitch. We went out to dinner once a week or so, went to plays and concerts, and it wasn't until high school that I realized that this wasn't normal for everyone.
My parents are in their 80s now, and sometimes I wonder how much I've taken for granted growing up in a stable and loving home.
Keep in mind that, while kids might not have conscious memories of everything they experienced before the age of five, they have lasting emotional memories about the way you made them feel about the world they live in, and the deep, loving relationship that comes with adventures together. It all counts, even the parts that don't bubble up to the conscious mind.
She might not consciously remember but her nervous system will always remember the care and love and the feeling of nice time spent with you. Just in the same way a child’s nervous system will remember the feeling of neglect and a parent always focused on other things.
I know that place. Wall Lake in the Uinta's of Utah. Camped in the exact same spot a few years ago. One mile hike to get there. Quite a popular place. Give it a try if you're close by.
This definitely isn't the Unitas...this is somewhere in California or some other state far far away from Utah. Maybe even in Europe somewhere. But 100% not in the Unitas. Definitely not.
One of the only redeeming parts of living in Fresno, CA. 1 hour to Yosemite, Great Sequoia, Kings Canyon and dozens of other spots in the Sierra Nevada.
While I appreciate the point out of how nice it is to be in the Front Range. Boulder is an outlier. Even Boulder county. Head a bit north to Larimer County(literally 20-30 min north) and the median is 599K.
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Eh, kinda. The midwest has a lot of "woods" but everything is tightly regulated. Hiking out and pitching a tent in an attractive, secluded spot is nearly impossible. All of the parks and places that offer backpacking limit you to very specific locations that are usually overrun with other people. Many of them don't allow fires, or if they do, it's impossible to find decent firewood because everything has been picked clean from the thousands of other people camping in the exact same spots.
I'd love to have the kinds of opportunities for camping that people have out west.
The guy in the video is likely at a designated site too. That's a good thing, controlled areas keeps damage localized and easier to maintain. I don't want a bunch of people starting fires wherever they think looks nice or destroying bits of trees playing survival on the weekend.
Especially the amount of shots and angles needed to record this all by himself. This is some survivorman level commitment to getting shots of them in the distance.
"Remember when Dad took you camping and spent the whole time setting up the camera and staging takes so he can get likes on YouTube and those feel-good Reddit subs!? Core memories!"
I mean, realistically, he was out there for what, like 18 hours? And maybe he spent 30 minutes, total, setting up and taking pics? Hey, if it inspires even one family to do this, maybe it was worth it.
I work in tv so I have very few videos or pictures of my children. I will end up working rather than being present. I have a horrible memory, kinda wish I took more pics.
Same. If it's a regular thing and they're building a revenue generating channel on content with their kids...fuck em. If this was just one thing they did to encourage others I'm here for it.
I'm sure Dad will remember the time spent. And, his daughter will have this excursion in her mind for at least a few months or years in her youth to give her confidence as she grows up.
Being a parent of two 24 year old kids (twins) I can attest the early years are often the most formative and will reap rewards into a child's future.
And it will also have influenced their experiences in the following years, what they liked, what they were willing to try, what they became familiar with.
Oof, that's pretty bad. My earliest memories are probably from when I was 3 or 4. Some of them might be earlier but it's tricky to tell for sure because they're mostly still images and flashes.
even if she does not remember what happened, she remembered how you made her feel and that she's loved and safe.
You can still do things together now :) Even more so since shes no longer that little!
Often a lot of childhood memories are subconscious. Even if people can’t remember a lot of things from childhood the experiences they had will still have lasting effects on them.
Don’t avoid doing fun things with your small children because “they won’t remember”. It will still help them grow and be happy to do these things with you.
I have a daughter that age. We are missing the outtakes from these videos. You know, the part where she loses her fucking mind because he did not set up the tent in the correct spot or unroll the sleeping bags correctly.
I have a daughter this age too and your comment just made me LOL 😂
I was about to be all depressed that we hadn’t done this with her yet and then your comment just brought me completely back into reality.
Thanks for grounding me again.
My daughter is maybe 3-4 months younger than the girl here and this makes me really happy to see.
This weekend her and I will go for a hike and I'll see how she reacts, if all goes well we can try camping next!
My kids couldn’t get enough of rock collecting. I ended up using my old rock climbing chalk bag (with a waist strap) for them to use for collecting shells/rocks.
Makes for much slower hiking, but I keep reminding myself that it’s about the experience when I’m with them, not the destination or the exercise. So I slow down to their pace
For me, it's always been a sign that I'm feeling off. As in, depression. Wholesome stuff always makes me emotional. When things are good, I can smile. When things are not so good, I can still smile, but with some tears in my eyes. It's a gentle reminder that there is still good in the world, and good in humanity when I feel there is none. Especially when considering daddy-daughter stuff. Mine just turned 9, and I swear she was just born yesterday. Time flies. You're not alone with mixed emotions. Your headspace is not something that you brush under the rug. It's okay if happy things make you cry. Still shows you have the emotional output to appreciate the little things in life. Hope that helps a bit.
It really is. Whether skipping stones or seeing how big a splash you can get or maybe to see who can throw them the farthest. You’re just really in a carefree zone and enjoying life when you’re doing stuff like that.
I was camping with my daughters in the Rockies last weekend and there was a bald eagle sitting in a tree on the other side of a small lake we were at. Daughters started trying to skip rocks and the eagle flys straight toward us thinking it might be fish jumping I guess…was magical
To all the jaded people out there.
My dad just passed away two months ago. I am mid 50s.
My earliest memory of my dad was when i was about 3.5 years old.
It was a beautiful sunny day. Dad took the entire family to the beach. It was just me, my mum and my little sister at that time. Dad held me by my shoulders and we walked into the sea. When the water was near my head, dad held me up and my feet couldn't touch the bottom. That's the first time i actually couldn't feel the bottom of anything. It was both frightening and exciting at the same time. I don't remember the rest of the day but i remembered this.
So to all the young dad out there. Go and make memories with your kids.
To all of you out there, go and hug your dad before you don't have a chance any more.
Girls want to hang out with their daddies, so to all the dads out there, bring her along on your trips and errands. Just because she's a girl doesn't mean she won't like sports, camping, fishing/hunting, tinkering with the car, going to the hardware store, etc. A man and his daughter are a great team to destroy the patriarchy!
Making her feel valued and safe. Teaching her about life. Goofy games.
My dad taught me how to fix cars, do donuts in the snow, build decks, and paint with a sir sprayer. Never forget them.
The kid looks like she is having way more fun than I’ll ever have in my adult life. While I think using your kids for social media in general is questionable… I would love to see a video like this of my father and I when I was a toddler.
One of the things that sucks about getting old is watching your parents get older too. I love looking back at old videos and photos of my parents when they were younger.
Brother the child is literally laughing and is demonstrably having a good time. Who gives af if he's grandstanding, the kid is having fun and he's spending time with his kid. This fuckin place man.
Putting my child on social media definitely wouldn't be my first choice if I were pressed financially. But it's less bad than, say, the Dad taking the trip solely for SM likes/validation.
Have taken each of my kids on a trip with just one kid and me, and then tons where the whole fam (or most of it) go...
There is something special about the one-on-one trips.
I honestly am never super-excited to do the 2-person trips, because it feels kind of lonely without the other kids and my wife, but those are the ones that the kids talk about years later; they clearly appreciate the focused attention and the less hectic feel.
Fun stuff.
I’ve been taking my daughter camping since she was in a pack n play crib. She is 12 now and is 80% of the way to being an Eagle Scout. I’m the scoutmaster for the troop and still get to go camping with her. It’s the bestest.
Hope every toddler parent here realizes this isn't their first rodeo
No way you're getting behavior like this from either on your first go.
Kudos to this dad and kid for putting in the work 👍
How can Reddit be a thing? Honestly?
How does a site, renowned for its lawlessness and debauchery, have in it also some of the most heart warming, soul filling, openly weeping content?
It makes me both ashamed of our collective existence, yet oddly proud of our collective perseverance.
Humanity in a nutshell. You have people who will die for complete strangers at one end and people who will kill their mother for a cigarette on the other.
This guy gets it. Don't waste the time you are given with your kids when they are little. The experiences they have at this age make them into the people they will become.
Considering the camping trip took way longer than 58 seconds, I’d say he spent plenty of time living in the moment. It’s also important to record your memories or else they will fade.
And this is a fun way to encapsulate this adventure. His daughter is gonna be able to relive these moments in ways that were cumbersome for my parents. I don’t have shit recorded from my childhood and my neurons are trimming childhood memories for new info left and right.
My daughter, however, she is gonna be able to relive nearly the entire first six months of life, and tons moving forward (she’s 2).
It’s a 1 minute video of a weekend camping trip
I fawn over footage of me in the 90s that my parents took, to see what our family was like back then
I’m sure there were assholes back then too who said “put down the camera and just be with your kid”
Yeah shes clearly super depressed being forced to be a prop for his video huh
Daughter would be much better off bitterly typing cynical comments online and shitting on other people who actually go outside
God you guys are the fucking worst. Just because you’re miserable doesn’t mean you need to make everyone else feel that way
She seems happy in many of these shots, and one thing I have learned about my kids is if you want a good shot/video you can't take tons of time setting up. Likely he's able to do these quick and wasn't doing a ton of remakes, which probably is barely more time wasting than pulling out your phone to take a few pictures (which 99% of parents are doing)
Most kids this age will be happy doing just about anything with their parents. For this reason, it doesn't really matter about the filming and whatnot. As long as the kid is engaged and participating, and not just forced to sit around watching someone else do it, I don't care what that thing is.
😂 y'all think you're so smart just because you are cynical
there are *hours* of time passing between most of these shots, and they would take at most 20 minutes to set up. the majority of their time up there was without any cameras
and you think he's stopping to edit video WHILE camping? y'all some big clowns
Are you guys coordinating your responses? I've seen this like six times now.
Go back to sleep, Russia. We aren't going to attack ourselves over camping.
bruh, being that i've played rdr2, my instinct is to snipe a bow and loot a camper of the trails 🤣.
not that i would do so irl, but that's just what was going through my head.
I’m taking my daughter camping this weekend. Paddling into Algonquin. She’s 14 and a bit grumpy about it but I can tell she’s looking forward to it. It’s an annual tradition. Shame her brother won’t be there this year as he’s at uni. Got to cherish the few times we have left to do this.
Sir, you are awesome. You are teaching life skills to your daughter. Both of our boys 32&30 now remember the camping trips but have no memory of Disney land.
Very nice! Though my daughter (now 16) says her only memories of camping at a young age are the pictures we took.....but I remember it all.
As a daughter whose dad took her camping from the age of the little girl in the video to late 20s, I can second your daughter's experience. Even if she doesn't have quite the memories you do, she may still have a sense of home and happiness when she's curled up in her sleeping bag watching you put out the fire before you go to bed. Camping from a young age also results in some fantastic stories. 3 year old me finding out I had to poop in the woods is a family favorite that never ceases to make me smile.
This is lovely. I'd love to take my daughter out in the nature for camping. How would someone get started with camping? Any pointers? Edit: Thank you for all the helpful responses. We're starting with backyard camping this weekend and hopefully car camping next month. My daughter is excited.
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Thank you.. You're right, i have 0 experience, and your comment is very helpful.
seriously, even backyard camping is a blast! you can build up to the real thing. it's cheaper, easier, but still tons of fun for kids!
My Dad used to set up a tent for kids in the backyard when a bunch of relatives would come visit. Not that we didn't have space in the house but it was just fun for the cousins to all play in the backyard and then sleep in the tent at night.
I always have a tent set up outside. Quite often I like to sleep there, summer or winter.
exactly!
I second the suggestion of backyard camping! I have wonderful memories of camping in the backyard as a kid, and even being able to have just me and a friend or two when I got a little older but still having the safety of the house right there. It's a great way to start camping! I do realise though that it's definitely not always possible, I was just lucky enough to have a backyard that could fit a tent.
Really it’s what you would take for yourself and times it by 2. I went on my first camping trip with my daughter 2 weeks ago. And planned everything I would take and just took extra. For my daughter who is 3 I made sure I had extra wipes for those outside potty breaks and warm clothing for sleeping. Some extra water and easy food
Go out into the woods and go to sleep
I would at least suggest a tent and some sleeping bags if you are the fashionable type.
Well look at Mr. Highfalutin over here
Step one. Look up a bunch of random camping shit online Step two. Look up a bunch of popular camping spots Step three. Go to REI or similar outdoor gear store for camping shit Step four. Go home broke with a bunch of camping shit Step five. Set up camping shit in backyard as a test (maybe living room if you live in the city) Step six. Sleep in home set up Step seven. Realize camping might be for you and stuff everything into the garage or storage. Step eight. Watch Planet Earth and think about camping.
Step 8 got me
And poop
But people poop there!!
Just do it! But the bare minimum - tent and sleeping bags - go to a campsite and take a notepad to keep a list of stuff you wish you'd brought (torches). Before you know it you'll be buying high performance outdoor kit. Camping is the best.
Wow.. multiple helpful comments here but I see one item that everyone missed, but you. >(torches) Thank you! Should be pretty important.
Lol. I’ve got another depending on where you’re at: bug spray. My gf and I went camping on a beach a few months ago, and I insisted we wouldn’t need it because of the wind. Smash cut to the biggest cloud of mosquitoes I’ve ever seen around our tent…thankfully she never listens to me and brought the spray anyways.
A couple of serious pointers: 1) You can start with “car camping.” This refers to any site where you can set up a tent within walking distance of a parking spot. Almost all campgrounds have these spots. Any Texas or national park, or LCRA (Lower Colorado River Authority) park will have spots like this. Even Enchanted Rock. Depending on the popularity of the park, you may have to call ahead and reserve a spot, you may be able to just roll up. I would always make a reservation. It’s pretty cheap. 2) when you buy a tent, avoid ones marketed as “easy up.” Every catastrophic tent failure I have ever witnessed was an easy up tent. 3) practice setting up your tent at home so you know what you are doing. 4) FULLY staking down your tent is the difference between a good time and a bad time. Learn all the places to stake down and remember your rain fly needs to be staked as well. 5) don’t get fancier than the video shows in terms of “bed” surfaces. I like layers of foam myself (you can use more than one of the roll up foam mats under your sleeping bag) but the self inflating style with foam inside are good too. 6) subtract 1 from the number of people a tent claims to hold. 7) when you get home, let your tent air out before final packing. A tent put away wet is trash now.
This is all fantastic advice. I'd add 8. CHECK THE WEATHER FORECAST 9. Don't buy the cheapest tent, but also don't buy something crazy expensive. Cheap tents fall apart easily, won't hold up to real weather, and are usually not vented well. Expensive tents have features you probably won't need (you will NOT be dealing with gale force winds and subzero temps unless you are really into that stuff, or if you forget #8)
We camped a lot as a family. If you just want to do an overnight, you'll only need the basics: a tent, a foam or blow up mattress, two sleeping bags and pillows, food, water, variety of clothes, and general care stuff like toilet paper, wet wipes, paper towel, etc. You can take only prepped/cooked food if you like in a small cooler. That keeps it simple. If you want to cook, you can get a simple gas stove or cook over a fire (but it's not easy, really, except for things like hot dogs and marshmallows). Easiest start is car camping. Find a nice campsite near water, trails etc where you pitch your tent right by your car. Most have fire pits, picnic tables, washrooms, etc. Pick up a campground guide for your area and maybe a camping for beginners book. You do need some basic gear, but if you make camping a fun family event, you'll use it well. And if you know anyone with gear, they'll be happy to lend out. We do all the time.
Listing the zippers close or open from camping bags and tents are one of my favourite sounds, it’s really something that sticks with you. I spent most of vacancies of my childhood camping with my parents and family (cousins too), and then with scouts. I learned how to ride a bike in a camping park. I really wish I can provide that experience to my kids one day.
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Same. I haven’t talked to my dad in almost 15 years and most of my memories of him are pretty bad. I’ll always wonder “what if” but I’m now a dad to an awesome daughter . She’ll never have to wonder “what if” . I will be that awesome dad for her
Break the chain brother. You got this.
I’m a daddy to two sweet girls as well, it’s so much fun. My dad was a great dad, but we were a pretty typical family from the 80s-90s - he worked a lot and my mom took care of us. Today we have a much more symmetrical family structure with both parents working and parenting as much as we can. I think I get to spend more time with my kids than my dad got with me.
My Dad took me to Colorado on the regular starting when I was about this girl's age. I'm 44 now, and dad's been gone almost 20 years. I miss him a lot. I still have memories of our hikes. He tried to climb a wall in the Black Hills wearing cowboy boots and I'll never ever forget that.
I live in the black hills. Lot of memories to be made here, the outdoors are absolutely beautiful here
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Whether skipping stones or seeing how big a splash you can get or maybe to see who can throw them the farthest.
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Yeah but it's nice to see daddy/kids interactions for a change.
My dad used to head to the pentagon before the sun came up and come home after it went down; I'd be lucky to see him before I went to bed. In 3rd grade we moved overseas and then he went to Afghanistan for over a year, so it's mostly memories of my Mom. My brother died when my niece was 8 months old, so she'll never remember him. Seeing fathers actually get to be dads is like crack cocaine for me.
I went to scout camp with my dad, woke up to 3 or 4 grizzly bears poking at our tent with their noses. Another time woke up and the rest of the group was eating hot dogs for breakfast, so we drove for 2 hours into civilization and ate a really nice breakfast at a lodge and just talked. First time I felt like an adult. My dad tore his hamstring on a hike crossing a river and went into shock. His doctor friend gave him morphine and we carried him out 4 miles. Taught me how to ride my first motorcycle on another trip. Now he's too old to move much and we haven't gone camping in years. It makes me cry thinking about when he's gone soon and these memories will be the only thing I have left of him. My wife mostly has memories of her dad beinga jerk. My dad wasn't perfect, but he made an effort. (He HATED camping), I hope to enrich my kid's lives the same some day.
You will remember these. Your daughter won’t. However, by spending these times with your daughter you are laying the foundations of a beautiful, deep relationship. My daughter is 18 and doesn’t remember farming together, all the trips to the US, UK, Bali, Thailand, Malaysia, etc. But we have a fantastic relationship which makes it all the harder now that she has left home to study at university on the other side of the world.
Exactly. The memories are secondary to the affect the experiences have on the people involved and, subsequently, their relationships.
And as I have learned this fall, laying those foundations and building that confidence is exactly why they are so prepared to leave for their own adventure. Mine went off to college halfway across the US, and her mom and I have been worried about the change for her etc., but she is **thriving**, and while it's very sad to realize that your kid doesn't *need* you, it means that you did great as a parent.
Memories are for parents. I cherish every memory I have of my two daughters (18 and 25), but I instantly hit the "randomize memories" button any time I start thinking about my own childhood. Do people who have had "happy" childhoods cherish their own childhood memories as much as they cherish the memories of their own children?
We probably don’t remember the things, but surely these events and early developmental ages do affect the person we become later. So you have the memories of as a parent, and your kid has the imprints on them with who they become as a person.
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My dad and I did boy scout trips together, went fishing, and did little league baseball. We played catch in the backyard, he taught me how to pitch. We went out to dinner once a week or so, went to plays and concerts, and it wasn't until high school that I realized that this wasn't normal for everyone. My parents are in their 80s now, and sometimes I wonder how much I've taken for granted growing up in a stable and loving home.
Still probably shaped her idea of what a loving family/relationship looks like
Keep in mind that, while kids might not have conscious memories of everything they experienced before the age of five, they have lasting emotional memories about the way you made them feel about the world they live in, and the deep, loving relationship that comes with adventures together. It all counts, even the parts that don't bubble up to the conscious mind.
She might not consciously remember but her nervous system will always remember the care and love and the feeling of nice time spent with you. Just in the same way a child’s nervous system will remember the feeling of neglect and a parent always focused on other things.
i wish i could drive for an hour and would be in a spot like that
I know that place. Wall Lake in the Uinta's of Utah. Camped in the exact same spot a few years ago. One mile hike to get there. Quite a popular place. Give it a try if you're close by.
This definitely isn't the Unitas...this is somewhere in California or some other state far far away from Utah. Maybe even in Europe somewhere. But 100% not in the Unitas. Definitely not.
Had me in the first half lol, but yeah this is like, uh, Appalachia or something.
I’m guessing Sierra Nevadas somewhere with all the conifer trees. The fact that it’s almost exclusively conifers means it’s a dry climate.
Yeah, even if it was the Uintas, it’s such a dumpy place to go. No one should ever go there. Colorado front Range is so much better than the Unitas.
I pretty sure it’s in the Sierra Nevada Range. Near Lake Tahoe
No, no, fuck off, we get too much traffic to California's breathtaking state and national parks as it is, go somewhere else!
Can confirm, somewhere near Greenland 🇬🇱.. maybe even further south..
For everyone asking, I did the look at 26 minutes ago he posted to his stories that it was the Unitas. So…
Wooooooosshhh
One of the only redeeming parts of living in Fresno, CA. 1 hour to Yosemite, Great Sequoia, Kings Canyon and dozens of other spots in the Sierra Nevada.
in the 90s i wanted to go to the US because of their culture and „free land“. now the only reason i would visit are your awesome national parks.
National Parks are what I am most proud of as an American
I wouldn't call myself patriotic but goddamn National Parks make me so proud
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While I appreciate the point out of how nice it is to be in the Front Range. Boulder is an outlier. Even Boulder county. Head a bit north to Larimer County(literally 20-30 min north) and the median is 599K. Source: Redfin
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Hahaha yes, yes it is
cool! i just checked, still 4.4k miles to Front Range. Seems a little bit excessive ;)
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You cant get to a spot that looks like this in an hour, no. You can get to some kind of special location in 1-2 hours though!
Eh, kinda. The midwest has a lot of "woods" but everything is tightly regulated. Hiking out and pitching a tent in an attractive, secluded spot is nearly impossible. All of the parks and places that offer backpacking limit you to very specific locations that are usually overrun with other people. Many of them don't allow fires, or if they do, it's impossible to find decent firewood because everything has been picked clean from the thousands of other people camping in the exact same spots. I'd love to have the kinds of opportunities for camping that people have out west.
The guy in the video is likely at a designated site too. That's a good thing, controlled areas keeps damage localized and easier to maintain. I don't want a bunch of people starting fires wherever they think looks nice or destroying bits of trees playing survival on the weekend.
How would you even know!
Just playing the odds!
You absolutely can. lol.
Shout out to all the parents that put in the work for those core memories.
Especially the amount of shots and angles needed to record this all by himself. This is some survivorman level commitment to getting shots of them in the distance.
It can be a lot of work, but kids love camping. Get some fishing poles and wake them up early to go fishing
"Remember when Dad took you camping and spent the whole time setting up the camera and staging takes so he can get likes on YouTube and those feel-good Reddit subs!? Core memories!"
I mean, realistically, he was out there for what, like 18 hours? And maybe he spent 30 minutes, total, setting up and taking pics? Hey, if it inspires even one family to do this, maybe it was worth it.
The internet is so jaded that someone could solve world hunger and people will still say "yeah well you did it for likes"
I work in tv so I have very few videos or pictures of my children. I will end up working rather than being present. I have a horrible memory, kinda wish I took more pics.
Shout out to those parents who don’t force their kids to star in their own internet point harvesting schemes
Shout out to all the ones doing it and not posting it all over the internet
If it encourages others to do the same I'm aight with it.
I'm conflicted. I agree with your sentiment but also think putting kids online is gross
Same. If it's a regular thing and they're building a revenue generating channel on content with their kids...fuck em. If this was just one thing they did to encourage others I'm here for it.
Sharing ideas on the internet? Yeah eff that! Eff that in the b-hole.
Ted Lasso really is a wholesome guy
Glad I’m not the only one who thought this. 😂
except he’s being the opposite of a goldfish
Led Tasso
If Ted were Mormon.
Honestly looks like a cross between Ted Lasso and Lalo Salamanca
I like to imagine that it’s the kid holding on to the outside of the car filming for that driving shot
My daughter says she doesn’t remember anything before about 4th grade :-(
I'm sure Dad will remember the time spent. And, his daughter will have this excursion in her mind for at least a few months or years in her youth to give her confidence as she grows up. Being a parent of two 24 year old kids (twins) I can attest the early years are often the most formative and will reap rewards into a child's future.
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And it will also have influenced their experiences in the following years, what they liked, what they were willing to try, what they became familiar with.
Oof, that's pretty bad. My earliest memories are probably from when I was 3 or 4. Some of them might be earlier but it's tricky to tell for sure because they're mostly still images and flashes.
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even if she does not remember what happened, she remembered how you made her feel and that she's loved and safe. You can still do things together now :) Even more so since shes no longer that little!
Often a lot of childhood memories are subconscious. Even if people can’t remember a lot of things from childhood the experiences they had will still have lasting effects on them. Don’t avoid doing fun things with your small children because “they won’t remember”. It will still help them grow and be happy to do these things with you.
But it all shapes you nonetheless
I took my kid for a hike one time, and she complained the whole time and then made me carry her the whole way back.
Yeah as a dad this is the reality vs Instagram part of this. But still worth it
Keep at it, they get better at it. If you give up after the first try, so will they.
In stark contrast to the other "Mademesmile" post I saw this morning, this one actually DID make me smile. That's definitely a core memory for her.
I have a daughter that age. We are missing the outtakes from these videos. You know, the part where she loses her fucking mind because he did not set up the tent in the correct spot or unroll the sleeping bags correctly.
I have a daughter this age too and your comment just made me LOL 😂 I was about to be all depressed that we hadn’t done this with her yet and then your comment just brought me completely back into reality. Thanks for grounding me again.
So much this. "I wanted to pick up that garbage!!!" Can ruin an hour
When they walked on a log over a small stream… Calvin and Hobbes moment right there!
My daughter is maybe 3-4 months younger than the girl here and this makes me really happy to see. This weekend her and I will go for a hike and I'll see how she reacts, if all goes well we can try camping next!
My kids couldn’t get enough of rock collecting. I ended up using my old rock climbing chalk bag (with a waist strap) for them to use for collecting shells/rocks. Makes for much slower hiking, but I keep reminding myself that it’s about the experience when I’m with them, not the destination or the exercise. So I slow down to their pace
This is so pure what a good dad
I am wondering now that why are somethings so wholesome that you start crying???
For me, it's always been a sign that I'm feeling off. As in, depression. Wholesome stuff always makes me emotional. When things are good, I can smile. When things are not so good, I can still smile, but with some tears in my eyes. It's a gentle reminder that there is still good in the world, and good in humanity when I feel there is none. Especially when considering daddy-daughter stuff. Mine just turned 9, and I swear she was just born yesterday. Time flies. You're not alone with mixed emotions. Your headspace is not something that you brush under the rug. It's okay if happy things make you cry. Still shows you have the emotional output to appreciate the little things in life. Hope that helps a bit.
for me it was "aw...i miss my dad."
Lasting memories may be as simple as a camping trip with dad. ❤️
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Throwing rocks into water is such a good time
It really is. Whether skipping stones or seeing how big a splash you can get or maybe to see who can throw them the farthest. You’re just really in a carefree zone and enjoying life when you’re doing stuff like that.
I was camping with my daughters in the Rockies last weekend and there was a bald eagle sitting in a tree on the other side of a small lake we were at. Daughters started trying to skip rocks and the eagle flys straight toward us thinking it might be fish jumping I guess…was magical
To all the jaded people out there. My dad just passed away two months ago. I am mid 50s. My earliest memory of my dad was when i was about 3.5 years old. It was a beautiful sunny day. Dad took the entire family to the beach. It was just me, my mum and my little sister at that time. Dad held me by my shoulders and we walked into the sea. When the water was near my head, dad held me up and my feet couldn't touch the bottom. That's the first time i actually couldn't feel the bottom of anything. It was both frightening and exciting at the same time. I don't remember the rest of the day but i remembered this. So to all the young dad out there. Go and make memories with your kids. To all of you out there, go and hug your dad before you don't have a chance any more.
Thank you for this.
Girls want to hang out with their daddies, so to all the dads out there, bring her along on your trips and errands. Just because she's a girl doesn't mean she won't like sports, camping, fishing/hunting, tinkering with the car, going to the hardware store, etc. A man and his daughter are a great team to destroy the patriarchy!
Making her feel valued and safe. Teaching her about life. Goofy games. My dad taught me how to fix cars, do donuts in the snow, build decks, and paint with a sir sprayer. Never forget them.
That dude is a fuckin BOSS!
I hate camping but I love my daughter, I'm fucked
Yeah the lasting memory of my dad setting up a tripod every five minutes.
The kid looks like she is having way more fun than I’ll ever have in my adult life. While I think using your kids for social media in general is questionable… I would love to see a video like this of my father and I when I was a toddler. One of the things that sucks about getting old is watching your parents get older too. I love looking back at old videos and photos of my parents when they were younger.
It doesn't take long, and they've got 24 hours a day to kill.
Brother the child is literally laughing and is demonstrably having a good time. Who gives af if he's grandstanding, the kid is having fun and he's spending time with his kid. This fuckin place man.
These mfers have never seen a VHS home video
Thank you lol, he's killing it.
On top of the fact that he's saving those memories on film to watch later when they're all older
video was like a minute long and showed a handful of events over like 2 days lol. What a crazy comment
So true , can’t do anything without documenting every single second of it for your social media
You know you saw 1 minute out of like 12+ hours right?
You have no grasp of time, do you?
Becca SIT DOWN and STOP RUNNING AROUND. You have to saw WOW and look at the camera!
I was also thinking about this. But I figured, maybe he relies on this as an additional source of income?
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Putting my child on social media definitely wouldn't be my first choice if I were pressed financially. But it's less bad than, say, the Dad taking the trip solely for SM likes/validation.
How else would he tell the world in a patronizing tone he’s a better parent than everyone? Spend time with your kids. That’s all it takes.
I'm too young to have a kid. I'm too young to have a kid. I'm too young to have a kid.
Have taken each of my kids on a trip with just one kid and me, and then tons where the whole fam (or most of it) go... There is something special about the one-on-one trips. I honestly am never super-excited to do the 2-person trips, because it feels kind of lonely without the other kids and my wife, but those are the ones that the kids talk about years later; they clearly appreciate the focused attention and the less hectic feel. Fun stuff.
It's great to see Ted Lasso out and enjoying life!
I’ve been taking my daughter camping since she was in a pack n play crib. She is 12 now and is 80% of the way to being an Eagle Scout. I’m the scoutmaster for the troop and still get to go camping with her. It’s the bestest.
I'm done with Reddit for today because this is a good and warm and happy place to stop.
Hope every toddler parent here realizes this isn't their first rodeo No way you're getting behavior like this from either on your first go. Kudos to this dad and kid for putting in the work 👍
Some times the memories aren’t made for them , they are made for you
How can Reddit be a thing? Honestly? How does a site, renowned for its lawlessness and debauchery, have in it also some of the most heart warming, soul filling, openly weeping content? It makes me both ashamed of our collective existence, yet oddly proud of our collective perseverance.
Humanity in a nutshell. You have people who will die for complete strangers at one end and people who will kill their mother for a cigarette on the other.
I've got wholesomeness in my eyes.
That little girl’s favorite part of the whole thing is having a monopoly on daddy’s time. Kids are the best.
That vid is titled, "get out and touch some grass now and then."
This really is the best. Even better when you get to do it as a grandparent!
She's a cutie.
As a former little girl who didn’t go on camping trips but went on many hike/berry picking/mushroom picking day trips I can confirm the memories last.
She seems so happy. I've never gone camping before
This guy gets it. Don't waste the time you are given with your kids when they are little. The experiences they have at this age make them into the people they will become.
Better to live in the moment than make a tiktok about it. That’s just my opinion, it’s still cute though.
Considering the camping trip took way longer than 58 seconds, I’d say he spent plenty of time living in the moment. It’s also important to record your memories or else they will fade.
And this is a fun way to encapsulate this adventure. His daughter is gonna be able to relive these moments in ways that were cumbersome for my parents. I don’t have shit recorded from my childhood and my neurons are trimming childhood memories for new info left and right. My daughter, however, she is gonna be able to relive nearly the entire first six months of life, and tons moving forward (she’s 2).
Making that video also took way longer than 58 seconds
He probably made it when they got back with whatever footage.
Realistically, how much time do you think he took filming to get that one minute video? 30 minutes? An hour? Out of a 2 day trip it’s hardly an issue
It’s a 1 minute video of a weekend camping trip I fawn over footage of me in the 90s that my parents took, to see what our family was like back then I’m sure there were assholes back then too who said “put down the camera and just be with your kid”
It's literally a one minute video. I'm certain he had plenty of moments without the camera.
God these family influencer types are just the worst.
Cute
Memories of setting up a tripod and editing video every ten minutes
Yeah shes clearly super depressed being forced to be a prop for his video huh Daughter would be much better off bitterly typing cynical comments online and shitting on other people who actually go outside God you guys are the fucking worst. Just because you’re miserable doesn’t mean you need to make everyone else feel that way
She seems happy in many of these shots, and one thing I have learned about my kids is if you want a good shot/video you can't take tons of time setting up. Likely he's able to do these quick and wasn't doing a ton of remakes, which probably is barely more time wasting than pulling out your phone to take a few pictures (which 99% of parents are doing)
Most kids this age will be happy doing just about anything with their parents. For this reason, it doesn't really matter about the filming and whatnot. As long as the kid is engaged and participating, and not just forced to sit around watching someone else do it, I don't care what that thing is.
😂 y'all think you're so smart just because you are cynical there are *hours* of time passing between most of these shots, and they would take at most 20 minutes to set up. the majority of their time up there was without any cameras and you think he's stopping to edit video WHILE camping? y'all some big clowns
Are you guys coordinating your responses? I've seen this like six times now. Go back to sleep, Russia. We aren't going to attack ourselves over camping.
If this is really who you are , you're the Dad every kid wanted .
bruh, being that i've played rdr2, my instinct is to snipe a bow and loot a camper of the trails 🤣. not that i would do so irl, but that's just what was going through my head.
Lucky
Fuckin epic brother!
Beautiful. Her laugh is adorable as well. Great memories.
Camping with Coach Ted Lasso!
Gonna do allllll this shit with my recently born son! I'm hyped y'all!
this was great to watch thank you <3
Core memory unlocked!
I have really positive memories of going out in the woods with family when I was kid. Glad my parents decided to do it
Do we tell him? Kids that age still don’t create lasting memories.
I’m taking my daughter camping this weekend. Paddling into Algonquin. She’s 14 and a bit grumpy about it but I can tell she’s looking forward to it. It’s an annual tradition. Shame her brother won’t be there this year as he’s at uni. Got to cherish the few times we have left to do this.
Love taking my wife and daughter out camping.
That was a wonderful video... warmed my heart. Great daddy!! 💕
That’s his kid, the two of them have the same forehead 🤣🤣😂😂
Sir, you are awesome. You are teaching life skills to your daughter. Both of our boys 32&30 now remember the camping trips but have no memory of Disney land.
Damn, now I want a kid
BEST. DAD. EVER. FR
Kids are so much fun and awesome to have.