There is a nice write up on Molehill’s Packables Wind Gear on the Babes In The Woods site. Click through to see what they have to say.
http://wildernessforkids.com/wp/?p=714
While you are there check out the rest of the site. There is great information from Alaska parents and kids who really know their stuff.
Since then, we have added Noah (now 13) and many additional product lines. Having my own business has allowed me the freedom to get outdoors with my kids (under the auspices of product testing) as well as relocating from the Colorado wonderland to an even more unbelievable Northern Idaho. Through all of this we have maintained the belief that families are stronger and kids experience positive development when we spend time outdoors together. Many times we were left to wonder if our choices worked and our beliefs were correct as the kids chose time with friends, movies, or video games over a hike with the parents.
This summer though has offered a number of outdoor activities and brief glimpses of why we went through all we did. A Memorial Day camping trip with hikes and floats on the Yaak River in Northern Montana reminded us all what fun nature can be and left us with the great taste of s’mores in our mouths. Five days of hiking and fishing in the Beartooth Mountains of Montana yielded additional time to hang out together and practice some of the outdoor skills we have developed over the past 15 years.
Noah and I have been feeding our fly fishing passion with streams in Montana, Idaho, and Canada this year. Catching bull trout on the Skookumchuck River in British Columbia was so much fun that we spent an additonal unplanned night in the tent together. I love the unscheduled nature of our outdoor pursuits.
If you are a parent who has invested a great deal of time and effort in getting outdoors with your kids, keep the faith. They will develop an appreciation of nature. They will enjoy spending time with you someday. And they will imbed this love in another generation after you are way too old to enjoy sleeping on the ground.
Molehill Product Promises…
· You will build lifetime bonds with your Molehill-clad children by experiencing the outdoors together.
· By introducing your children to nature at an early age, they will develop a healthy respect for the environment.
· Your children will be the smartest in their class and you will make other parents look lame in comparison.
· Bullying activity was nonexistent in the control group of Molehill wearers.
· Molehill products estimated to reduce teen pregnancy by 78% in those that grew up wearing Molehill. While your children will be far more desirable than others, they will have the good sense and self esteem to enable abstinence from pre-marital relations.
· Wearing Molehill gear while young has been proven to increase SAT scores by an average of 47 points.
· Molehill kids are 69% more inclined to cheerfully help with household chores.
· Parent buying Molehill for their children experience job advancement at 3 times the rate of their non-Molehill-buying coworkers.
· Parents buying Molehill report increased sexual satisfaction and intimacy in their relationships. Divorce rates plummet within the Molehill-purchasing cohort.
· Children wearing Molehill will enjoy a vastly decreased percentage of the national debt from those who do not wear our products. While most members of future generations will be screwed by the current generation’s profligate ways, we expect Molehill kids to be shielded from this economic certainty.
· Drug abuse and alcoholism was found to be non-existent in a study of customers wearing products in the 3/9M to 4/5 size ranges. We can extrapolate from this data that Molehill customers will never succumb to any unhealthy addictions (not one).
· Molehill wearers have been shown to take care of their elderly parents later in life 84% better than their non-Molehill wearing counterparts.
This is Doug Faude, founder and president of Molehill Mountain Equipment, Inc. I hope that you will find this blog informative and entertaining. I have been offering technically advanced garments to outdoor-oriented kids for over 15 years. Now I look forward to sharing some of my discoveries with you.