OUTventure with kids for their health. When we take our kids on OUTventures we have an opportunity to shape their physical, social, emotional, and mental development. We have an opportunity to make lasting impacts on their future health.
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Take kids on outdoor adventures to help shape their physical, social, emotional, and mental development. If you love them, then outventure with kids for their health.
OUTVENTURE WITH KIDS FOR THEIR HEALTH
Outdoors adventures are fun for the kiddos and make lasting impacts on their future well-being in many ways.
Physical Well-Being
Take kids on an outventure for their physical well-being. Kids have seemingly endless curiosity and energy. They also want to have fun. For them, exploring the outdoors is fun, satisfies their curiosities, and burns that energy. All the while, they are improving their balance, eye-hand coordination, and motor skills. It’s simple. While they explore, their muscles, bones, immune, respiratory, and cardiovascular systems get stronger.
Social and Emotional Well-Being
Beyond the physical, outdoor adventures are good for the social and emotional well-being of kids. When kids get exposed to new people and places they learn new skills. The demands placed on them often call for different responses or elicit new emotions.
On an outdoor adventure, kids must exercise self-control. Such restraint is not just for the safety and/or comfort of themselves, but for others as well. These precious learning moments allow us to teach kids. They learn how to behave as a member of a group, and how to follow rules which are unlike those in their daily lives and routines. Exposed to new forms of leadership, teamwork, and communication, they gain greater self-control and improve their interpersonal skills. Beyond these social and emotional benefits, kids gain mental benefits as well.
Mental Well-Being
Kids face new challenges on outdoor adventures which allow them to experience and confront their misgivings and fears. A positive outcome is good for their mental well-being. The unique situations and environments of an outdoor adventure engage children in critical thinking and problem solving. The opportunity to safely overcome obstacles and fears increases their mental toughness, stimulates self-confidence, and engenders a positive attitude towards self and others.
Final Thoughts
In short, outdoor adventures are good for the physical and mental health of kids. They are also a great way to help our them grow both socially and emotionally. Take them out and let them explore.
SAFETY DISCLAIMER: The activities discussed in this website are outdoor activities and, as such, have inherent risks to which participants are exposed. It is not the intent of this website, nor is it possible due to the variability of weather, terrain, equipment, and experience, to detail all of those risks. The information contained in this site is informational, but not instructive nor exhaustive. It is the sole responsibility of the user to ensure he/she is in good health, fully prepared, and fully informed as to dangers before undertaking any of the activities discussed in this website and the user does so at his/her own risk. The user understands that by using this website he/she acknowledges and accepts all risks associated with use of information from this website and participation in any particular activity addressed herein. Please see “Terms of Use” for additional information.
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