Outdoor Parents Outdoor Kids: A Guide to Getting Your Kids Active in the Great Outdoors - Softcover

Eugene Buchanan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1896980708 ISBN 13: 9781896980706

Publisher: Heliconia Press, 2012

Synopsis

With an informative and entertaining look at biking, jogging, camping, swimming, paddling, snow sports, hiking, fishing, climbing and more, award winning author Eugene Buchanan extends parents a helping hand in getting their kids outside and instilling in them a respect for their health and the environment. The game is on to get today's kids off video games and into the great outdoors. Parents who refuse to let their children become an obesity statistic and who understand the fate of the environment know the answer rests with connecting kids with the great outdoors. This book shines a much-needed spotlight on how parents can accomplish this and much more...This is a practical guide for parents, teachers, psychologists, youth team leaders and sports coaches. The Heliconia Press is the award-winning publisher of paddlesport books and DVDs, founded in Canada in 1995 by the family of World Champion kayaker Ken Whiting. The company specialises in outdoor survival, watersports and extreme fishing.

About this title

About the Author

A former reporter for the Denver Business Journal and 14-year editor-in-chief of Paddler magazine, Eugene Buchanan has written about the outdoors for more than 25 years, from covering the X Games for ESPN.com to working for NBC at the Beijing Olympics. With freelance articles published in the New York Times, Men's Journal, National Geographic Adventure, Sports Afield, Outside, Forbes Life and other publications, his passion for traveling and writing has taken him to more than 30 countries on six continents. A Fellow member of the Explorer's Club and contributor to Men's Journal's The Great Life anthology, he spearheaded the Outdoor Industry Association's book, Brothers on the Bashkaus, was released by Fulcrum Publishing in 2007.

Edition details

• Publisher: Heliconia Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1896980708
• ISBN 13: 9781896980706
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 296