Kids who spend time in unstructured nature, crawling over logs and climbing rocks, develop more resilience. Research shows children who camp for multiple days score higher on resilience assessments, and varied weather exposure makes them more adaptable.
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And so, you know, nature offers a lot of natural challenges from a young age when you're outdoors, even if you're before you can walk, even if you're just like crawling around and there are logs and rocks to sort of try and for a young child to try and scale. And there's a— and it's just a really great way to hone your resilience. And today we have hundreds, if not thousands of Studies on the benefits of nature on children, and resilience is one of those things. There are studies showing where children have been out camping for a number of days, and then they've scored better on questions relating to resilience. And I've seen just anecdotal evidence too. I mean, I've seen it with my own children that once they get— if you can get them used to different weather conditions,