It’s vacation time and you want your family to experience a new adventure together, but you have no idea how to go about it. How about taking them on a camping or skiing trip. It is so important to take children into nature and let them experience it in real life, rather than teaching them from a book or the television.

Planning a trip such as this is really exciting for everyone, especially if you give them tasks to perform to help make it a special vacation. Sit and plan together from the start and this togetherness, will carry through on your trip as well. Don’t worry if the boys want to take their men’s sport watch along, they will need it to guide you along the way and to keep track of time. And let the girls take their digital book reader as well, you never know if might rain and they will have something to do that day.

Our children spend way to much time in their rooms, playing computer games or surfing the internet and not to mention the thousands of text messages that their poor thumbs have to produce. It is partly our fault because after all why worry about there whereabouts if you could keep them safely in their rooms?

We the parents are to blame in some areas because it is easier to keep an eye on a child if he is up in his room, than not knowing where he is or what he is up to if not at home. So we subconsciously provide them with entertainment that will keep them in doors. There is nothing inherently wrong with it, it just keeps the child away from nature and physical exercise.

So you might be living near a ski resort or you could do a day trip to one, why not take your alpine skiing equipment along and make it a skiing trip as well. Combined with camping or just sleeping in a log cabin, this activity is guaranteed to bring the child out in you and for that matter, bring out the child in your children again. It provides hours of fun as they laugh at your attempts of jumping or just falling down in the snow.

The huge plus of course is you will be exposed to the sun’s UV rays, and it will provide that all important Vitamin D which we all are so deficient in. This all important vitamin helps us to absorb calcium better which in turn keeps our bone structure healthy and especially helps growth in young children.

You can’t go wrong with an outdoor vacation it will bind and foster a better relationship with all family members.