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Riding the rails: Summer train adventures with kids
They watch Polar Express and Thomas the Tank Engine, sing “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” and build wooden tracks. But how many children have actually ridden a train? Across the Northwest, hundreds of engineers, firemen and uniformed conductors are bringing rail travel to life — and you and you
Read More »Winter sports with kids: the low down on gearing up
(Related stories: tubing at Snoqualmie and family snowshoeing) I have fond memories of spending family time as a child skiing in big, big snow and sub-zero weather. How we all made it through each expedition with frozen smiles mostly intact is a true testimony to my parents' thoughtfulness
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Take the fall: What's happening at urban parks this month
Updated October, 2009 By now, we’ve all heard the news: Kids these days just don’t get outdoors enough. Tethered to their iPods and their cell phones, their schedules fitted jigsaw-tight with structured extracurriculars, they don’t have the time or inclination anymore for the type of unstructur
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Summer Urban Foraging: Pick Wild Berries in Local Parks
“There’s something magical about kids eating stuff in the woods,” says Stewart Wechsler, a naturalist who leads family programs in Seattle parks. “When I let kids taste something, there’s an extra dimension — in addition to engaging a whole new sense, it goes back to our basic instincts of why we lo
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Tubing at Snoqualmie Pass: Downhill Thrills for Kids
The holidays have passed and you've endured weeks of Seattle's cold, gray, wet winter. Your children have cabin fever and you'd like to make some magical memories in the snow before spring arrives. Time to grab your whole family and head up to the Summit at Snoqualmie to hurtle down the hills at the
Read More »Hike and seek with geocaching
The kids had been hiking for hours. In fact, the further we went, the more their enthusiasm grew. They raced ahead of us on the trail, checking their "computers" and shouting out the displayed numbers. We parents hung back, relishing their excitement and basking in the July sunshine filtering throug
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