An information sharing site for families who enjoy the outdoors!
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Your Wild Child:
Wilderness for Kids:Babies in the backcountry? Absolutely. With a lifelong love of being in the outdoors, I couldn’t wait to plan a backpacking trip with my first baby. She was about 4 months old and had already traveled on many an Alaskan trail. But what about bears? What about bugs? What if the baby gets sick or hurt? What if it rains the whole time? I knew how to handle these situations for myself, but somehow with a baby in tow, everything I knew about camping needed to be re-evaluated.This book is the product of miles and miles of trails with my four children either in my belly, on my back or on my heels. Perhaps more importantly, it is a product of many families learning to camp and returning home to share their expertise.
To read more about Jen Aist work visit her website Wilderness for Kids.
Recreating with Kids is spearheaded by Eugene Buchanan, author of Outdoor Parents, Outdoor Kids, which benefits the Outdoor Foundation’s efforts to grow youth participation in outdoor recreation. Based on the book’s success, Buchanan decided to keep the message and campaign going with a web site to further help parents get their kids re-connected with outdoor recreation.
The site comes on the heels of President Obama’s first-ever White House Conference on America’s Great Outdoors, encouraging families to spend more time outside, as well as his childhood obesity task force (childhood obesity rates have tripled in the past 30 years, affecting a third of our nation’s children and costing the U.S. $150 billion every year).
Participation numbers are equally disheartening. The Outdoor Foundation reports that youth participation in outdoor recreation has dropped nearly 17 percent over the last three years. It also finds that most youth are introduced to outdoor activities through their families.
This site will hopefully help remedy that.
Climbing for Kids: 
The Wild Foundation:
As the hub of the global wilderness conservation movement, WILD is the only international organization dedicated entirely and explicitly to wilderness protection around the world.
Our vision – Nature Needs Half - is to protect at least half of the planet, land and water, in an interconnected way because wilderness areas provide essential social, spiritual, biological and economic benefits. We envision a planet with ample clean water, fresh air and natural resources to support all life and believe that intact wilderness areas are an essential core element of a healthy modern human society. The Wild Foundation
Greening Sam and Avery:
I am making a commitment to my daughters. A commitment to teach them, inspire them and expose them to everything I know and love about our natural world. I will find new and creative ways to do this. I will stretch my imagination, my teaching knowledge and my teaching skills to new levels to be sure that I am doing my best to “green” my daughters Samantha and Avery.
I am making a commitment to you. Other moms out there of young children. Other moms seeking to be able to inspire their children, teach their children and expose their children to the natural world. Moms that may not have the teaching background, the environmental education background or the time to do the research/creative thinking in order to come up with all kinds of activities to do with their kids. I will doc**ent my journey with my girls and share what works and what does not work with all of you out there. Hopefully this sharing of knowledge will make it very easy for other moms to have the knowledge and tools they need to “green” their children as well!
For most of this world “green” means to be environmental friendly, sustainable or natural. As a family we strive to live more sustainably and of course I want my daughters to know what it means to be environmentally responsible citizens. But before they can learn and understand how to care of our planet they need to love the outdoors and want to spend time outdoors. They need awareness and exposure to the natural world. This is what I mean by “greening” my daughters; the first step in raising them to be environmentally responsible citizens.
The vision and mission of the Children & Nature Network is to give every child in every community a wide range of opportunities to experience nature directly, reconnecting our children with nature's joys and lessons, its profound physical and mental bounty.
Taking our kids with us, one adventure at a time. Tips for parents, destinations, gear reviews, giveaways, articles and discussions on how to get little ones outside while maintaining your sanity. In truth, there is no fail safe bullet list that will make your weekend trip an adventure. However, there are many things we have learned, many things that helped ensure our success, and many more that led to our demise that we want to pass on.
Family Adventures in the Canadian Rockies
Have toddler and have not slowed down! "Family Adventures in the Canadian Rockies" is a blog that seeks to chronicle the joys and challenges of taking kids hiking, camping, backpacking, skiing and all-out exploring in the Canadian Rockies. Inside the blog you'll find lots of photos and informative stories on how to enjoy family adventure, dress for the weather, and even choose good places to explore in the Canadian Rockies.
Other website of interest:
Camping in Color : This Blog site is designed to bring you the joys of camping and the outdoors, from an African American perspective.
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