Travelling with kids doesn’t have to require packing the whole house. Jocey Newman and her spouse took off on a year-long adventure with their kid and only carry-on. Let’s learn how!

Jocey Newman is a mom, adventure traveller, and the founder of First Peak, a line of sustainable adventure wear for babies and toddlers. All her clothes are made in the USA using eco-friendly fabrics that are designed to stand up to mess, moisture, and exploration. She’s currently living on the road with her husband and 2-year-old, testing out First Peak clothes every day.

Reasons to Pack Carry-On Only:

• No lost luggage
• Less to haul
• Makes travel faster
• Teaches children value and purposeful consumption
• Kids are really good at finding anything to play with
• Allows you and your kids to work on letting go and saying bye to items

What to Pack:

• Camping packs as carry-on (using packing cubes)
• A smaller backpack for day use
• Stroller (Baby Zen YoYo Stroller)
• Carseat, if you’re not borrowing
• Clothes
• Books
• iPad

What to Buy On Travel:

• Snacks
• Perishable food
• Diapers
• Toiletries

What to Borrow:

• Big items
• Air BnB has a filter, so you can search for homes with cribs, etc.
• Carseat, even from Facebook Marketplace (car seats are a tricky one, because different places have different regulations, and you don’t know how a car seat has been treated…this one may take some looking into)

Tips for Travel:

• Don’t overpack for the “what if’s” or plan for every possible scenario
• Consider using transit, bikes, rentals
• For liquids, pack some small ones, but then buy larger there as needed
• Before arriving, look up park, pharmacy, and grocery store near you
• Wash clothes in the sink as needed
• When exhausted, get outside, have snacks, change the scenery, and give kids a chance to lead!

First Peak [Sustainable Kids’ Clothing]:

Inspiration for this business came from her son spilling milk on himself while hiking/travelling. She was inspired to create something sustainable, that’s quick to dry, uses safe fabrics, and lasts!

Check it out:

www.firstpeak.co

IG: @firstpeakbaby

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Have you ever wondered if becoming a parent will change your adventures? Have you ever wondering what travelling the world would look like with kids? Meghan J. Ward wondered too, and she made it happen. She tells us all about it in her books, and today on the podcast!

Meghan J. Ward is a writer, editor, digital content specialist and all-around storyteller based in Banff, Canada (Treaty 7 territory), and mama of two. An avid outdoor adventurer with a voracious appetite to understand her surroundings, she has established herself as a mountain historian and an authoritative voice in the Rockies outdoor and travel scene. She has authored four Canadian Rockies photo/travel books, which she collaborated on with her husband, Paul Zizka, a celebrated landscape photographer/ She is also the author of a children’s book, The Wonders That I Find, and a travelogue/memoir, Lights to Guide Me Home.

Parenting during travel amplifies parenting. And in response to the “they won’t remember this” comments, babies remember in their bodies, in their cells, even if they cannot access the stories.

Book Recommendation: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

Follow Meghan J. Ward:

Website: https://www.meghanjoyward.com

Books: https://www.meghanjoyward.com/books-1

IG: @meghanjward

Husband IG: @paulzizkaphoto

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After 118 episodes and more kids, we’ve decided to make a slight change for a little bit - expect new podcast episodes monthly. See you again on June 6th!!

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Do you have picture-perfect images of what it could look like to garden with your kids? It doesn’t need to be fancy. Elissa likes to tell people it can be as easy as you want it to be, and your own trail and error will take you far!

Elissa is wife to Tobin. She is a wetland biologist, and mama to two boys, aged 5.5 years and 3 months. Before having kids, she worked as a wildlife biologist specializing in birds, and then an environmental educator. She grew up competitively horseback riding and now works part-time as a riding instructor and farm/nature teacher for children. Elissa and her family live on a small suburban farm with chickens, horses, a large garden, berry patch, and fruit orchard. They love to travel, mountain bike, ski, rock climb, hike, bikepack, and camp as a family.

Benefits of Gardening with Kids:

• Easy way for kids to learn how to fail
• Trail and error can teach them a lot!
• They learn how to properly weed and identify plants
• Then have to care for something by watering it regularly
• Promotes healthy eating
• Encourages motor skills
• Reduces stress
• Teaches patience, resilience and responsibility
• Improves mood
• Educates about the natural world and biological process
• Strengthens family connections
• Nurtures self-confidence
• Gets you outside, and gets you grounding!

Types of Gardens:

• Container gardens
• In-ground gardens
• Community gardens

Some Good Foods to Start With:

• Snap peas
• Carrots
• Kale
• Tomatoes - from a start instead of seed
• Strawberries - from a start instead of seed (and/or in a hanging pot)
• Green onions (can grow in water in a glass by the window)

Fun Kid-Friendly Tips:

• Tomatoes go out after Mother’s Day
• Check your growing zone to determine frost dates and when to seed
• Give kids spray bottle instead of hose (or small watering can)
• Plant large seed size (easy to grab for kids)
• Through trial and error learn which plants need sunnier spots, when to leave a sprinkle of seeds, how deep you should seed, etc.
• Raised beds are perfect height for little gardeners
• When seeding, can use a measuring tape for a visual marker (plus math skills!); Younger kids, you can draw a visual line with your finger
• Kids can use popsicle sticks to label veggies/fruit
• Kids can use scissors for harvesting
• Give them a “yes spot” to dig

Other Gardening Tips:

• Planting native plants to your region requires less water and less artificial fertilizer
• Good irrigation system (or neighbours watering) can help if you’re away
• Raised beds and/or hardware mesh can help to keep wildlife from eating your food!
• You can line beds with metal, depending on the wood

Book Recommendation: Nature Play at Home

Follow Elissa on IG: @seattlestorys

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Tighten Your Tinkler meets Kids Who Explore, because we all want to support postpartum women, so they can get back to doing all the things they love to do outside.

Christina Walsh is a physical therapist and co-founder of Tighten Your Tinkler. She’s a New Orleans mama of two who lived with pelvic floor issues herself. She supports postpartum women holistically through prolapse, diastasis recti, and more. The program helps women solve pelvic floor issues without kegels or internal vaginal devices.

Tighten Your Tinkler:

• Functional training from a need they experienced themselves
• You can do it at home with your children!
• Helps with incontinence, sleeping through the night without needing to pee, and painful sex

When You Resume Activity Postpartum:

• Make sure you’re cleared by your providers
• If you’re having extra drainage, your body is asking you to slow down
• Pelvic floor pressure or heaviness, back pain, or leakage – tune back into your body, slow down, and work your way back into it more gently

Why Kegels Aren’t Always the Answer:

• You’re only getting stronger in ONE position
• Can cause over tightening
• You don’t need the pelvic floor to be a conscious muscle

Uneven terrain adds extra weight. When you ask more from your body, be gentle. You don’t have to live with discomfort, AND also, go slow!

So much of pelvic floor function is linked to the nervous system. Fight or Flight response links to bladder – so, take yourself out of that stressed state.

Immediately Postpartum:

• Listen to body
• Visit a Webster-certified chiro (adjust pubic joint)
• Avoid high impact activity while breastfeeding
• 90/90 decompression technique!! Check link below
• Don’t push pee out
• Use Squatty Potty
• Get enough fibre and stay hydrated
• Go easy on your body!
• Build strength

It’s never too late. Menopause can cause a shift of hormones as well, but they’ve seen success after people living with incontinence for over 28 years.

Links:

Decompression Position (to relax back, hips, and pelvic floor): https://www.tightenyourtinkler.com/backandhiprelief

5-minute Root Cause Quiz: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6C9SJ36

Book Suggestion:

Hunt Gather Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff

https://kidswhoexplore.com/podcasts/ep-42-why-to-avoid-kid-centered-activities-with-michaeleen-doucleff/

Follow Tighten Your Tinkler:

Website: www.tightenyourtinkler.com

IG: @tighten.your.tinkler

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tightenyourtinkler

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We’ve done all the other season’s bucket lists, so we needed a Spring edition, because Spring is in the air!!

Depends what climate you’re in…when/if the snow is melted, but…here’s some ideas:

• Go on a bike or scooter ride…or ski
• Watch ducks!! (don’t feed them…Bird Episode: https://kidswhoexplore.com/podcasts/ep-64-birding-bird-watching-with-launne-kolla/)
• Pick berries
• Make homemade lemonade or ice cream - find a warm day!
• Go on a nature walk (or hike)
• Jump in puddles
• Garden!!
• Eat outside
• Go fishing
• Watch the sunset!!
• Farmer’s Market
• Look for wild flowers
• Fly a kite
• Sidewalk Chalk or other outdoor crafts
• Outdoor Easter egg (or other kind of) hunt Other Bucket List Episodes: Winter Bucket List: https://kidswhoexplore.com/podcasts/ep-44-winter-bucket-list/ Fall Bucket List: https://kidswhoexplore.com/podcasts/ep-32-fall-bucket-list-with-kids/ Summer Bucket List: https://kidswhoexplore.com/podcasts/ep-23-summer-bucket-list-with-kids/

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Today’s Host: @adriannaadventures & @laurenrodycheberle from @kidswhoexplore

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What’s the Scandinavian perspective on outdoor play? That you can’t have too much of it, and there’s no such thing as bad weather! Linda Åkeson McGurk, from Sweden, teaches us the essential nature of the outdoors in childhood.

Linda Åkeson McGurk is a Swedish American writer and author of the parenting memoir There’s No Such Thing As Bad Weather and The Open-Air Life. McGurk is a passionate advocate for raising kids in the outdoors and thinks that the best childhood memories are created outside, while jumping in puddles, digging in dirt, catching bugs and climbing trees. She is the founder of the blog Rain or Shine Mamma, a resource where parents and other caregivers find tips and inspiration for outdoor play every day, regardless of the weather.

Some Key Takeaways:

• Kids need unstructured play for their emotional, social and cognitive skills. Play is different than activities outside. Play is chosen by the child and directed by the child and is intrinsically motivated
• Outdoor life can be as simple as daily walks, green spaces, and utilizing what you have (even in a city)
• Getting outside gets you in the rhythm of getting outside
• We don’t know all the consequences of indoor time and screen time yet, but we do know all the benefits of outdoor time!!
• Experiencing nature = gentle with it, versus consuming nature = using motor vehicles in nature

Other Episode Referenced:

https://kidswhoexplore.com/podcasts/ep-112-open-air-classrooms-with-amy-cornet/

Linda’s Books:

There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather

Open Air Life

https://rainorshinemamma.com/shop-2/

Other Book Suggestion:

Book: Slow Birding by Joan E. Strassmann

Follow Linda:

Blog: rainorshinemamma.com – sign up for newsletter

IG and Facebook: @rainorshinemamma

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Today’s Host: @adriannaadventures & @laurenrodycheberle from @kidswhoexplore Production: @kpmediaproductions. Music: @michaelferraro_music

Give the Gift of Adventure to an Adventurous Parent to be: Everything they'll need to hike with their baby is shared on today’s episode!

Wish List:

1. Soft-Structured Carrier(for newborn to 3 years old, with rain and winter cover)
2. AChild Carrier(for 6+ months with rain cover and hydraulics pack)
3. SOS Device/Satellite Phone with Subscription
4. Family First-Aid Kit
5. Merino Wool Base Layers and Socks
6. Bear Belt(to hold bear spray)
7. Summit Seat
8. Fleeceand Down Bunting
9. Hiking Poles
10. Ice Cleats
11. Adventure Blankie
12. 4x4 Stroller(if not able to carry)

Bonus Item: Baby Explorer Toque from KWE!

Refer to this blog post for all links:

https://www.adriannaadventures.ca/post/babyshowergiftregistrylistforahikingmom

Lauren’s Soft-Structured Carrier Suggestion:

Tula Free to Grow (and Toddler Carrier)

Discount Code: LAURENEB5 gets you 5% off

Babywearing Episode:

https://kidswhoexplore.com/podcasts/ep-10-babywearing-101-with-vanessa-shynkaruk/

Hiking with your baby creates a strong bond. You'll look back and love the memories you created on the trail together.

Thank you to Morrison Outdoors for sponsoring today’s podcast! Find more at: www.morrisonoutdoors.com

Use code FREECANADA within Canada from March 1-March 31, 2023 for free shipping on orders over $50!

Today’s Host: @adriannaadventures from @kidswhoexplore Production: @kpmediaproductions. Music: @michaelferraro_music