Here's an article on the subject . . .
paddlingmag.com
. . . but it would be more interesting to read some advice and experiences from you folks. You can include how you yourselves got interested in canoeing as a kid, and pictures of kids in canoes are always popular.
I got interested in canoeing because I spent every summer at my grandparent's lake house on North Pond in Woodstock, Maine, and they got a Grumman when I was eight-years-old. I messed around with it almost every day of every summer for 10 years. I introduced my kids to canoes at the same family lake house in Maine, plus on day and overnight canoe trips in New York, Florida and Connecticut.
The only picture I have digitized of my kids in a canoe is this one of my daughter, at about 12 years old in 1986, in my Mad River Explorer on North Pond.
North Pond is about three miles from Bryant Pond, where the Maine Canoe Symposium is now held, and which was the last town in America to have hand-crank telephones, which had to be used to contact a switchboard operator in order to make a call. The hand-crank system lasted until October 1983.
But my grandfather didn't allow a telephone in the house nor a TV when they were invented. He told us, "Those gadgets interfere with healthy country living. Go outdoors. Chop wood for the fireplace. Go swimming. Go fishing. Go canoeing!"
How To Get Kids Into Paddling
There's no such thing as too young to start paddling; use these age appropriate tips to make your trips successful
paddlingmag.com
. . . but it would be more interesting to read some advice and experiences from you folks. You can include how you yourselves got interested in canoeing as a kid, and pictures of kids in canoes are always popular.
I got interested in canoeing because I spent every summer at my grandparent's lake house on North Pond in Woodstock, Maine, and they got a Grumman when I was eight-years-old. I messed around with it almost every day of every summer for 10 years. I introduced my kids to canoes at the same family lake house in Maine, plus on day and overnight canoe trips in New York, Florida and Connecticut.
The only picture I have digitized of my kids in a canoe is this one of my daughter, at about 12 years old in 1986, in my Mad River Explorer on North Pond.
North Pond is about three miles from Bryant Pond, where the Maine Canoe Symposium is now held, and which was the last town in America to have hand-crank telephones, which had to be used to contact a switchboard operator in order to make a call. The hand-crank system lasted until October 1983.
But my grandfather didn't allow a telephone in the house nor a TV when they were invented. He told us, "Those gadgets interfere with healthy country living. Go outdoors. Chop wood for the fireplace. Go swimming. Go fishing. Go canoeing!"
