How To Get Kids Off The Couch And Outdoors This Summer

Raising Daughters - Un pódcast de Tim Jordan, MD - Jueves

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In this podcast, Dr. Jordan describes how to get your family off on the right foot this summer, starting with firing yourself as their entertainment director. Plan fun activities together that they choose, create a car ride and bored bag filled with things they choose to do when they are bored, and plan lots of time outdoors with activities like hikes, campfires, bird watching, and star gazing. Dr. Jordan includes lots of examples of possible activities you can do with your children. Link to Dr. Jordan’s previous podcast on the benefits of time in nature.Link to a good article on ways that families could connect with the natural world: 10 Nature Activities for Families article.Find nature everywhere — and create more of it. National Geographic offers an online guide, Finding Urban Nature, that can help city dwellers. If you have a yard, check out the National Wildlife Federation’s guide to building a backyard wildlife habitat.Link to Dr. Jordan’s Dinner Dialogue Cards to use at the dinner table, car rides, or around a campfire to learn more about each other.And of course, sign up your daughters for a week of summer camp with Dr. Jordan at this site: Camp Weloki for Girls

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