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Camino Frances with 5 Year Old--Am I CRAZY??
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[QUOTE="Paul_L, post: 479476, member: 30503"] I completely agree with Kiwi-family. My daughter who was 8 talks about wanting to do the Camino again almost as much as I check the forum. She talks about when we walked through the mountains, fields and snow. However, more importantly she talks about it as the best time being together as a family with nothing else in the way. She also asks questions like what did the pilgrimage mean to me, and I can discuss what it means to her. We can look at maps and hug looking at elevation profiles, photos and laugh about accidents (she still loves her scar from a fall). My two year old remembers the cold, and that is his main recollection. However I think there is affective memory too which he doesn't articulate, like how it felt to run through the mountains kicking pine cones, or sword fighting with the walking sticks giggling all the way, chasing his siblings. The bond shared in our family is forged through shared experiences, deep loving experiences. Those experiences aren't recalled as being directly caused by some explicit reflection or logical conclusion, but rather the build up of feelings based on shared experiences. A five year old probably won't want to discuss that impressive gothic architecture, or compare the depiction of Saint James in different locations, or discuss the purpose of pilgrimage. You will get anyone two people of other ages who equally disagree on what they want to get out of a Camino. A child will however feel ever bit as deeply as adults do though, and I feel so deeply blessed to have been able to share such a profound experience with my children, one that they will most likely repeat in the future due to the warmth (metaphoric, certainly not physical during the winter camino!) and love they felt. I know that they will experience the Camino in a completely different way next time, and perhaps in many years time they too will understand the gift of walking with their children and reflect of how the meaning of pilgrimage has continued to evolve for them over time. I would struggle with just one child though; ours entertained each other with fights against giants, counting, treasure hunts, word games, reading, making up stories, and hundreds of other games. That let us as parents duck into town to get food, make meals (boiling a dozen eggs worked a treat for snacks), wash clothes or heaven forbid, have a break! [/QUOTE]
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