Quote Originally Posted by Irulan View Post
Pfft on them. Sure taking kids out is more work, logarithmically so at times, but it's so worth it.
Oh, absolutely.

You will probably need to be flexible about what you do and how far you go, and all kids are different, of course, but there is no end to the outdoor activities you can do with kids. Some things we found were just not worth the hassle taking kids to, like rock climbing. Parents we knew did take their kids, and enjoyed it, but we were fairly focussed on climbing for exercise and training, and found it hard to enjoy an outing when we always had to be ready to go feed someone, or throw pine cones into a stream instead ;-) Hiking with kids was great fun, though.