Tips for keeping warm at night
8 TIPS for keeping your daughter warm at night when camping in cold weather
(or How not to end up sleeping in your truck with your daughter!!)
1) Most body heat is lost through the head, neck and feet. The most important thing you can do to keep your daughter warm at night is to put clean dry socks on her and have her wear a hood or stocking cap over her head for sleeping.
2) During the day your daughter will run around and perspire which will get on the inside of her clothes. Change her clothes before going to sleep so the perspiration doesn’t lower her body temperature. Make sure you have a clean dry change of clothes for each day.
3) Layer her clothing. She should wear several layers of lighter clothing instead of one heavy layer. This way she can better regulate the amount of insulation. If she gets warm she can take layers off and add some more clothing layers if she gets cold. If your daughter needs a fire to keep her warm she is not dressed properly. If the heat can get to her body, so can the cold.
4) The temperature of her air mattress will be the same as the temperature of the air. The rule is that she needs twice as much insulation below her (between her air mattress and her sleeping bag) as above her. Foam mattresses are different, they are better insulators. Putting a foam mat between the air mattress and the bag really makes a big difference.
5) Put a blanket inside the sleeping bag. Chief’s note: Unless you bought yours at Costco, then you won’t need the blanket. 
6) Put an insulating blanket that goes under the sleeping bag and wraps over the top of the sleeping back so she is insulted from the top and bottom.
7) Make sure she goes to the bathroom before going to sleep to avoid that trip at 3:00AM in the middle of the night!
8) Get an area heater. (be careful, these can easily burn fingers, toes and anything else that comes in contact with them!)
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