Where Kids Build Skills & Real Friendships
Firelight, archery, music & community—every Thursday night. Trackers Skills Night Begins March 5 — A New Thursday Tradition! We received an incredible response to our A Wonderful World With Trackers. After publishing it, I had quite a few conversations with parents at pickup, over email, and even by the campfire. Our conversations always gravitated toward […]
A Wonderful World With Trackers
Building real-world connection for kids and families Today there are fewer and fewer places where kids can hang out together in the real world. Not online, but in one of those places we older generations roamed freely in, but are rapidly going extinct: cafes, libraries, and unfenced wild spaces in our neighborhoods. There are fewer […]
Let’s Stop Optimizing Childhood
How kids earn real independence through competence and community. We didn’t expect such a positive response to our last blog, Beyond Screens, Beyond Camp. Families wrote back because we named something that’s rarely addressed: outdoor education can’t just be a brief alternative to screens. If kids’ social lives exist online, “go outside” can feel like […]
Beyond Screens, Beyond Camp
Screens pull kids in. Meaning calls them outdoors. Every outdoor program now promises “less screen time, more connection.” True enough, camps can deliver this, but it misses the real problem. When school friends gather in digital spaces, parents face an impossible choice: connection or isolation. While Trackers has weighed in on screen time, we want […]
Our Trackers Village
Trackers Community, Thank you to everyone who joined our 9-month After School (NE & SE), Weekend Apprenticeships, and Homeschool programs this year. Special thanks to the families who attended last weekend’s potluck at Old Roslyn Lake (aka BREC). Over 200 friends and families enjoyed fellowship around the campfire! Listening to our students’ favorite stories, we […]
Car Camping for the Whole Family [Part 1 of 2]
Car camping is a lot simpler than backpacking. Anyone can do it. You can pack everything you might possibly need (including the kitchen sink), and if you forget something like marshmallows (or god forbid coffee!), you can zip off to the store. Car camping is a wonderful way to get you and your kids out in nature without having to be an outdoor wilderness expert.