Hey folks, let’s camp

This summer attend fun events and bond with your family. PT goes camping to find out new activities

INNUMERABLE responsibilities and never ending ‘to-do’ lists hardly leave parents with any time for their little ones. Today hectic lifestyles have reduced the amount of quality time a mother or father would get to spend with her little princess or prince. Keeping this in mind, many event managers are organising interesting activities that allow the parent and child to spend quality time together. Software professional and mother of an eight-year-old, Janani Iyengar feels that these events help parents connect better with their child. “Today’s hectic life demand mothers to always juggle between work and home and this leaves us with hardly any time with our children. So, I opted to go for one such event where I could dedicate all my time to my kid. It was a one day trip to a nearby picnic spot where we played games and spent a lot of time chatting. It was a great way to know my son better. The trip cost me 2000 and it was completely worth it,” says she.

Away from the daily tensions, parents can dedicate all their time to their little sweethearts at these camps. Marketing manager at Nature Trails, Sonal Diweka, gives a sneak peak into one such camp. She says, “Parents get a chance to bond well with their kids through these camps. We regularly organize camps for mother and child or father and child at Durshet. They enjoy activities including environment games, collage making, kayaking, wall climbing and various competitions. It’s usually a two night, three day camp, which will cost you around 6500.”  A similar event was organized by Avinash Kumar, managing director, In House Productions, “We organize mother’s day out regularly, where fun events and activities help the child and their mother bond better. Three leg races, camp fire are some events that we organized at our camp recently. We also had a consultation session with psychologists who spoke to the mothers about mother care, bridging the generation gap and the art of being friends with their kids.” When fun is blended with learning, it becomes an absolute success for parents, feels Sejal Goel, event organizer for U/A Fundays. She says, “We organise nature-based camps with a dash of learning. Recently, we organized a farm visit for mothers and their children where the kids got to spend time with farm animals, do fish breeding, trekking etc. It’s a fun learning experience where mothers also participate and accompany their children in all activities.”

But why just restrict it to mom and daughter or father and son, asks Amitabh Pal, managing director, RAW enterprise. “The family days that we organise are for corporate houses. It’s a day out with family where they get to spend quality time with each other. Depending on the number of people, we organize either carnivals or just usual events with games like wrap the child, where the mother is asked to neatly wrap the child with tissue paper making it look like a ‘mummy’, bombing the city and shouting and screaming games which the kids enjoy thoroughly. The carnival includes elements like jokers, cartoon characters and game stalls.”
 

It’s time you took out some time for your little ones and had fun with them. Why refuse your kids the love and affection they need, when you can play along and bond well?