152: Trail Parenting

The First 40 Miles: Hiking and Backpacking Podcast

Heather Legler

Hobbies, Leisure, Sports, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Today on the First 40 Miles, last week we turned the mic over to the kids. And today, we’re taking it back—and sharing a little bit of insight to parenting on the trail. On Today’s Top 5 list, are there principles that are easier to teach outside than inside? Then, we’ll review a versatile, functional, rechargeable light. For today’s Backpack hack, a crowd-pleasing three ingredient granola recipe that’s just begging for space in your pack.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 152 of the first 40 miles.
0:06.2	If you're new to backpacking or if you're hopelessly in love with someone who wants you to
0:10.9	love backpacking, then this podcast is for you.
0:14.4	We'll talk about the essentials, how to lighten your load, and how to make the most of your time on the trail.
0:20.4	I'm your host Heather Legler. And'm Josh Legler and this is the first 40 miles.
0:29.5	Today on the first 40 miles last week we turned the mic over to the kids and today we're taking it back
0:36.0	and sharing a little bit of insight to parenting on the trail. On today's
0:41.1	top five list are there principles that are easier to teach outside than inside?
0:47.0	Then we'll review a versatile, functional, rechargeable light.
0:52.0	For today's backpack hack, a crowd-pleasing three-ingredient
0:57.0	granola recipe that's just begging for space in your pack. All this and that's about it. Today on the first 40 miles.
1:10.0	We're talking about parenting today on backpacking trips, but I think we're going to talk about a lot of things that apply not only to what our children should learn, but what adults should learn as well.
1:21.0	There's great opportunities to learn on backpacking trips,
1:24.5	regardless of your age, regardless of a parent-child relationship. So we'll be talking
1:29.2	about parenting and how we help our children to have great experiences on the trail that they might not have at home,
1:35.0	but no matter your age, you can have these amazing experiences that help you to grow.
1:40.0	I guess I named it the Trail Parenting episode, but really it could be the Trail Mentoring episode.
1:47.6	If you're taking someone out, a friend who's never been backpacking, and you're taking them out for the first time, you are the mentor or kind of the trail parent to that friend.
1:59.0	And same thing with scouting. A lot of those scout leaders are more like, you know, mentors or parents to those
2:05.6	boys, helping them to achieve something greater than they would have if they were just
2:10.2	sitting at home. But I guess as we talked during this episode, we're going to come at it from the parenting side because that's our vantage point. That's the experience that we've had with backpacking. We've been able to take our children out on trips
2:25.5	and see them evolve over the last few years and in some really amazing and soul satisfying ways.
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