Today, our family took a lovely stroll at the Redondo Beach Wilderness Park. This is a medium sized park with lots of shady trees, a delightful ocean breeze, creeks, two ponds stocked with koi, turtles, and ducks, several picnic areas, tadpoles (you could see some getting their limbs!), butterflies, dragonflies, and several species of waterbirds. The trail is short--not serious hiking for grown-ups, but fun for the kids.
Beware of blackberry brambles (they've got nasty thorns) and the challenging entrance/exit (you can only get in facing one direction). I'd map the trip before going. image from ClipArt ETC
Here's a post that I originally wrote for my author blog: I'm not a Pinterest fan, but here's a wonderful post by a fellow blogger at the Nerdy Book Club that gives super projects to make summer reading fun in your family. Summertime is the perfect time to develop a love of reading in your kids. Kids can select their own reading material based on their own interests rather than what their teachers think they should be reading. They can also read at their own pace without meeting a deadline. If your family (or your child's camp bunk) go on an interesting outing, they can select books that dovetail nicely with the subject matter. Many libraries have summer book clubs that your kids can join (including Beverly Hills and L.A. city libraries). Just go see the children's librarian for details at your neighborhood branch. These useful sites will give you a heads up on all sorts of fun things to do around SoCal.
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