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[Rufus Gwertigan]

I know many of us like to go to the festival without having kids around our necks.

I was wondering what some people do with their kids whilst they are away.


My preferred way is to leave them tied up in the back garden so they can freely poo and eat the grass, but I have been known to keep them in the shed but they fight.





Seriously I always take them. But now they are 18 they can buy their own f**king ticket!!

[shoei67]

2 sons coming... 2 sons staying. Apparently some kind of dubstep BBQ thing going on here whilst we're away...

[no1_foxymama]

Have you always taken your kids with you? I have a boy coming up 4 and the thought of him being near massive crowds sends me into total panic. Have you got any tips on calming this, or is it just me and my 'worst case scenario' parenting head that I just need to get over? Haha

[Rufus Gwertigan]

no1_foxymama, on May 14 2010, 09:02 PM, said:

Have you always taken your kids with you? I have a boy coming up 4 and the thought of him being near massive crowds sends me into total panic. Have you got any tips on calming this, or is it just me and my 'worst case scenario' parenting head that I just need to get over? Haha

When you have kids near a crowd a "BIG f**kING STICK" is useful. You can get one from any bush.

[al_coholic]

I have taken my son when he was 4 months old but is was a nightmare, so now I will be leaving my son 5 and daughter 2 with the grandparents.

They may get a chance to come in 2013 depending on how I feel.

[halvin]

al_coholic, on May 15 2010, 08:08 AM, said:

... my son 5 and daughter 2 ...

I wanted to number my children but Mrs H insisted that we should give them names.

[muddyslingbax]

We are leaving our 5 year old with my sister and her lovely family.
Although he'll have a great time overall, there will be times when he won't want to be there.
Although i'm excited about Glasto, there's always a darkish cloud of anxiety that goes with it.

I'll have to take him from Somerset to York on the Wednesday and go get him on the Monday.

I'm in awe of those who bring small children and still have a great / safe time.  Although he will definately come with us at some point in the future, i can't do that yet, too anxious and too busy being a child myself      

Sometimes i wish i could just get over myself and be a bit more chilled out  

[Spindles]

I left the kids with their grandma in the past, as I wasn't confident enough to take them.

Taking my daughter this year (although she turned 16 this week, so she's not really a 'kid' anymore).

I have massive respect for parents with young children at glasto.

[cartonio]

this year i'm coming with my wife. we're from rome.
our son is 1-1/2 year old. she wants to bring him with us, but i'd prefer to leave him at home with his grandparents.

so, what's the youngest child you ever brought to glasto? ho was it? did you have fun or it was a difficult journey?

thanks

[Staberinde]

al_coholic, on May 15 2010, 08:08 AM, said:

I have taken my son when he was 4 months old but is was a nightmare, so now I will be leaving my son 5 and daughter 2 with the grandparents.

They may get a chance to come in 2013 depending on how I feel.

heh, I'm much the same. I reckon 2011 will be my last solo Glasto (that will be 4 solo Glasto's in a row) as I intend to bring the wife and kids in 2013 they will be called 9 and 4 by then.

Halvin.. names for kids? Number are so much more easy  

[sisterofmercy]

When my brother and I were younger, my parents shipped us off to the grandparent's house in the middle of the countryside. It was the most boring weekend of the year, especially when we had to see everyone enjoying themselves at Glasto on the News in the evenings.

Thankfully, these days we both get to go now

[indisguise]

no1_foxymama, on May 14 2010, 08:02 PM, said:

Have you always taken your kids with you? I have a boy coming up 4 and the thought of him being near massive crowds sends me into total panic. Have you got any tips on calming this, or is it just me and my 'worst case scenario' parenting head that I just need to get over? Haha

I'm going with my 5 year old granddaughter and her parents. We've taken her most years since 2007 and she has decided we are not going without her.    Actually she's great fun and I love taking her     

Glasto website has loads of really useful information on taking kids Here (hopefully) There is loads for them to do - check-out the Kidz field here and the kids part of the Green Fields area

[tinpottery]

I don't have any kids.

[Niblet]

the Munchkin stays either with my wife or with her grandparents if my wife comes along, either way I get a week of no responsibility!

[Staberinde]

indisguise, on May 15 2010, 11:17 AM, said:

I'm going with my 5 year old granddaughter and her parents. We've taken her most years since 2007 and she has decided we are not going without her.    Actually she's great fun and I love taking her     

Glasto website has loads of really useful information on taking kids Here (hopefully) There is loads for them to do - check-out the Kidz field here and the kids part of the Green Fields area

I'm actually really looking forward to taking my kids, I know they'll just love it. Hopefully we're going to be coming with friends and their kids, that way some adults babysit some nights while the others have a 'Off their heads' night  

[Pipkins]

My son first went at 3 mths.  He's now 7 and my daughter will be 4 next week.  They have been every year since birth.  They both adore music and love being down at the front of the pyramid as much as being in the Kids field and circus big top.  At Glastonbury alone my children have seen REM, String Cheese incident, John Fogerty, CSN, N Young, Springsteen and a thousand other acts, many of whom you don't usually get this side of the pond.

WHY... would you think to not bring your children.

I have been to GB since 86 (only missed 2 years) and never thought for one moment not to take any future children.  You OWE this opportunity to your children.  I have been lucky enough to have stood in that hallowed field at Woodstock.  The only problem was I was about 35 when i did it.  how much sweeter to have done that when I was 2 in 1969!

You know it's the right thing to do.  Our children are the future of rock.


(Not, I hasten to add, pop... which we all know is manufactured garbage.)

(Oh, and Mr Eavis - PLEASE get S and G, Kate Bush and Cat Stevens on main stage... and a reformed Sleater Kinney!)

[Buddhafish]

I leave my three at home with my wife. That way I can get completely wasted for 5 days without worrying about them, which suits me nicely.  

[Staberinde]

Buddhafish, on May 15 2010, 12:17 PM, said:

I leave my three at home with my wife. That way I can get completely wasted for 5 days without worrying about them, which suits me nicely.  

Heh, thats me for the last three years and the next two.

Glastonbury, 5 days of blissful limbo

[Craigston]

Got three kids but I've only ever taken the eldest to Leeds fest for one of the days about 10 years
ago, when he was about a year old.


Mrs Craigston doesn't think she'd be able to handle the toilets at Glasto so she has never been. As a result it's become a lads event with her at home trying in vain to see me on the telly!

I've given an open invitation to the kids but so far they've not taken me up on it. Whilst I know that when they do decide to go they'll restrict my 'manoevres', I'm sure I'll have a great (possibly even better) time showing em round.

Looking forward.

Kids are great!  

Edited by Craigston, 15 May 2010 - 11:33 AM.

[Rufus Gwertigan]

tinpottery, on May 15 2010, 11:32 AM, said:

I don't have any kids.

I have 5, do you want to borrow one.

Staberinde, on May 15 2010, 11:54 AM, said:

I'm actually really looking forward to taking my kids, I know they'll just love it. Hopefully we're going to be coming with friends and their kids, that way some adults babysit some nights while the others have a 'Off their heads' night  

The first time I went to glastonbury was with the kids, and I can tell you they absolutely love it. But it is more than that. Your experience of the festival as a family is entirely different to being solo. You find that you may spend more time over at the east side of the festival i.e the kids field, circus and cabaret areas. But (and I hate to use the word) the 'vibe' is something unique. I am a real control freak around the kids, but at a festival I do relax a bit. The kids take on a festival mentality automatically. Unfortunately I only have 2 living with me, but I can assure you that a festival matures kids. My 2 youngest had only been to Glastonbury twice and I took them and there older brother to Beautiful Days (2004). As we were leaving the campsite to go into the arena the girls wanted to shoot off on their own to the kids field. The older daughter, asked me but I was worried about the crowds. She gave me a very detailed route of how she was going to get there, pointing out that they would walk around the crowds, told me when and where to meet and for me to just relax. They were only 8 and 6 ffs and they had all the confidence of, well of me.

That weekend the Stranglers where headlining the last night, and I had taken them camping for the week. On the last night it was pissing down with rain and I was dancing around like a mad bastard. I turned around and my daughters where sat there, obviously tired and very wet. I took them by the hand to take them back to the tent and the pair of them turned around and said "You have worked hard this week, and you only wanted to see the Stranglers so we will be OK for now"

You could not buy a moment like that