Camping With Kids: A Parent's Handbook (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781496085191)

Gia Scott has camped her entire life, and has tried many styles of camping, including minimalism as well as excessive gear. She has spent a great deal of time camping with children, as well as with multi-family camp outs. Gia has also served as camp cook and prepared thousands of meals, both delicious and what was deemed as failed experiments. Much of her camping has also included lessons on foraging and survival tactics, as well as learning about native flora in a variety of locations and climates. Over the years, she has accompanied many novices into the more natural world, sometimes in campgrounds and sometimes in remote locations. So far, everyone who has ever ventured into the wilds with her has returned home, none the worse for wear. As a parent, she has experienced some terrifying moments when a child has seemed to vanish into thin air, fallen into water, or come into contact with a sick wild animal. She has also experienced being a single parent taking her children camping, including the hair raising experience of going to the bathroom during a thunderstorm, only to hear her children's screams of terror when a family of raccoons came calling in search of a refuge from the storm. She has survived the experiences, just as her own mother survived shrieks of terror and the occasional incident involving copious amounts of blood. Today, Gia is a grandmother and lives in Mississippi in a funny little house surrounded by gnarly old live oak trees. There, she writes from her desk or the kitchen table.