Five Reasons to Go Hiking with Your Children
1. Exercise: Children have many activities they enjoy these days that involve no physical exertion at all. It's our job as parents to see to the well being of our children. One way of doing this is by helping them be physically active. So lace up those hiking boots and hit a trail near you!
2. Education: Bring your camera along and take pictures of the wildlife and flowers along the trail. When you return home, have your children try and find information about the items in the pictures. You can find information about the various regions of the country online. Help them learn where to look, and there's no telling what they might discover about their part of the country.
3. Money Management: You can teach your children that there are activities they can do that aren't very expensive. There are different levels in hiking trails. You should be able to find information about the difficulty of the trial you're planning to hike online. Start with the easy ones and work your way up. For most of the easier ones, the only big expense will be a good pair of shoes.
4. Quality time: We all like quality time with our children. While you are hiking you have plenty of time to talk about what's been going on in your child's life.Make the time count by asking about their school friends, interest, how they are feeling. Be sure to open up about yourself also. Kids are curious as to what's going on in our lives as well.
5. Stress Relief: When you are walking around communing with nature it's hard to be stressed. You and your children will feel much better after a hike. Let the calming influence seep into your soul and just relax.
There are many other reasons it's good to go hiking, but just by looking at these five examples you can see that it would be something worth doing with your children. Anything we can do to improve our relationship with our children, help them relax in this stressful world, and teach them something along the way, has to be a good idea!
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Angel Sharum is a freelance writer of both fiction and non-fiction. She writes articles on a number of topics ranging from self-help to hiking and has numerous works of fiction published in print anthologies... View profile
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5 Comments
Post a CommentI love hiking, but mainly in the Fall! It is a beautiful time of year to be outdoors in New England!
I love to hike with the kids, much more fun than walking a track for exercise.
and because ticks need to eat too
I'm glad you liked it. I love getting outside and I'm so glad my son and husband enjoy it also!
I really like number 4, kids do need to know that we were kids too, it helps them connect so they can understand what it takes to become an adult. Also, when you get out into nature you realize there is nothing bigger than what's in front of you, and a breath of fresh nature fills your lungs with hope.