Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature

The indispensable case for parenting tough, curious, and competent kids who feel at home in the outdoors, from the New York Times bestselling author and host of the TV series and podcast MeatEater

The average American spends ninety percent of their time indoors, and children are no exception. Today, kids can spend up to seven hours per day looking at screens, a phenomenon that has real consequences for their physical and mental health. A lifetime spent indoors can diminish our children's ability to understand and engage with anything beyond the built environment. It can also have impacts on a global scale. We can talk about environmental stewardship, but until more people make meaningful contact with nature, the welfare of our planet is in jeopardy.  
 
Thankfully, with the right mindset, families can find beauty, meaning, and connection in a life lived outdoors. Now, outdoorsman Steven Rinella shares the parenting wisdom he has garnered as a father whose family has lived amid the biggest cities and wildest corners of America. Throughout, he offers practical advice for getting your kids radically engaged with nature in a muddy, thrilling, hands-on way—with the ultimate goal of helping them see their own place within the natural world. No matter their location—rural, suburban, or urban—caregivers and kids will bond over activities such as: