Nature Club Makes for Happier Families in Twin Cities
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – July 05, 2009
By Laura Billings
Local mom Jodi Hiland is not the sort to offer unsolicited advice to parents. She believes we all get quite enough of it already, thank you very much. But on rare occasions, when she finds herself in the company of a squalling infant or a pair of squabbling siblings or a preteen who’s suddenly gotten too cool to participate in conversation, she might make the following suggestion to the child’s parents: “Have you tried going outside?” Hiland first discovered the sanity- saving effects of the great outdoors when, having exhausted all the other tricks for consoling her crying infant son,…
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