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Raising A Kid as an Outdoor Family

Learning from those farther along their parenting journey can inspire and encourage the less-experienced among us. Jonathan Johnson and Amy Howko, from Cheney, Wash., have ...
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Kids Strider Bike Race

Boulder, Colorado, Hosting World’s Cutest Toddler Race 2018 Strider Cup® World Championship Features 2- to 6-Year-Olds on Strider Bikes Rapid City, S.D. (Feb. 21, 2018)—Strider Bikes, the world’s leading manufacturer ...
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4 Books for Outdoor Families

Books are one of my few obsessions. Re-reading a great book feels like returning home as I revisit that author’s ideas, insights, experiences, encouragement, or ...
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Photo: Amy S. McCaffree

Winter Fun That Doesn’t Require a Chairlift

  Don’t ski or snowboard? No problem. Carpe diem this winter and play in the snow outside your door. Here are four wintry adventures that ...
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Photo by Amy S. McCaffree.

Explore Locally

When competing with iPhones and apps, nature may seem “boring”—but it doesn’t have to be that way. “If we want children to flourish, to become ...
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Photo of families camping together by Amy S. McCaffree.

Lessons Learned Camping with Friends and Their Kids

  What happens when four families—including eight adults and 10 children ages 1-11—go camping together over Memorial Day weekend? Fun, adventure, and lessons learned. Here ...
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The McCaffrees loaded and ready to go. // Photo: Judd McCaffree

Falling in Love with a Pop-Up Tent Trailer

Big Agnes served her purpose well until last summer. My family’s orange and yellow 4-person Big Agnes tent was acquired early in our marriage, four ...
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Photo of kids playing by Amy Silbernagel McCaffree.

Fresh Air Parenting

Fresh-Air Parenting, coined by outdoor writer Katie Arnold in a May 2015 “Outside Magazine” article, asserts that “Letting [children] embrace freedom involves a fair amount ...
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Young boy sitting in a big inflatable blue and yellow tube and floating the Spokane River during summer.

Easy Thrills: Tubing the Spokane River

Parents like to feel in control, but you can’t control a river. Which is why I was a little nervous to take my young son, ...
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