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It’s tempting to let your children spend cold winter days inside, in front of the screen, especially when it’s raining or snowing. But it’s important to make spending time outdoors a priority, even if it’s just for a short excursion. All you need is the right gear – and the right attitude. No matter the weather, make sure you don’t miss out on the benefits of getting your kids outdoors during the winter. Why is it so important to get your son out of the house?

Spending Time Outside Boosts Kids’ Immune Function and Overall Health

At overnight summer camp, kids quickly see that when they unplug and spend time outside, they feel better, even if they don’t understand why. Sunshine plays a crucial role in Vitamin D synthesis and regulates circadian rhythms, supporting a healthy sleep cycle. Seven out of ten children ages 6-11 are deficient in this vitamin, which is integral to immune function, hormone production, mood, bone, and muscle development.  

Outdoor Play Builds Children’s Muscles – and Brains!

Learning isn’t all in your head. That’s why kids who enjoy outdoor play perform better in school. Engaging in fun outdoor activities that require balancing, running, rowing, climbing, jumping, and operating outdoor equipment builds new connections in the brain. Neurons forge new pathways, facilitating cognitive development alongside muscle and fine motor skills, improving concentration and learning.

Time Spent in Nature Balances Energy Levels and Mood

Time spent outdoors in natural settings can lower heart rate, blood pressure, and cortisol, reducing symptoms of stress and anxiety. Just a short outdoor walk can relieve symptoms of seasonal affective disorder (SAD), mental fatigue, and depression, putting your child in a better frame of mind. Outdoor activities can also balance energy levels, improve attention and concentration, and restore the mind, lessening ADHD symptoms.

Interactive Play Helps Children Build Key Social and Life Skills

Face-to-face, collaborative outdoor play boosts creativity and helps children learn the art of conversation. It also teaches essential life skills like empathy, cooperation, compromise, problem-solving, sharing, and self-control, which are often lost in virtual experiences.

Immersion in Nature Helps Kids See the Bigger Picture

Mother Nature’s wonders cannot be fully understood without swimming in a sparkling lake, hiking in the woods, seeing wildlife, and appreciating a beautiful sunset. These experiences help children understand their role in the world and the ripple effect of their actions.

Tips and Tricks for Cold Weather Outdoor Play

If you want to get your son to play outside more, warm, comfortable winter clothing and shoes are essential. We recommend that parents invest in these themselves as well so they can comfortably spend time outdoors with their children and share why this is a priority for the whole family. Encourage your son to invite friends, which often inspires longer, more frequent playtimes. Explore a variety of things for kids to do when it’s cold outside, taking note of favorites and rewarding your child with hot chocolate, hearty soup, or warm cookies on return.

Improve Health and Well-Being with Regular Outdoor Play

Reap the benefits of getting kids outdoors during the winter and year-round. Help your child unplug with a fun-filled summer at Camp Mowglis. Contact us at 603-744-8095 and reserve your child’s spot for the upcoming boys’ overnight camp season today.

Current Weather

Last updated: July 12, 2025 8:58 pm

  • Temperature: 73.8°F
  • Feels Like: 77.6°F
  • Humidity: 85%
  • Condition: Mostly cloudy
  • Wind: 3 mph at 170° (SOUTH); Gusts up to 4 mph
  • Precipitation Chance: 39% (None)
  • Air Pressure: 1018 mb
  • Visibility: 10 miles
  • Cloud Cover: 75%

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The Mow-Trow Gear Exchange: Smart & Sustainable Gear Sharing:

If your son has outgrown Mowglis uniform items (aka Mow-Trow) that are still in good shape, please add them to this spreadsheet. If you’re looking for Mow-Trow or other gear (hiking boots, backpacks, etc.), you can check out this spreadsheet, and if you find what you’re looking for, contact the parent who posted it up and either arrange for shipping (or to pick it up if you live in the same area).

 

The best way to pay for shipping will be for the family with the items to box them up and bring them to a UPS Store and have the parent receiving the items call the store with their credit card number. That is how we send lost and found items at the end of the summer, and it works quite well. Please note when items have been claimed once they have been. Any unclaimed items can be brought to camp on arrival day or shipped to camp.

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Protect Your Investment: Program Protector Tuition Insurance:

Program Protector, tuition insurance, is now available for purchase during the online registration process.

 

If purchased, may protect up to the full cost of your son’s session and include various other benefits should the need arise.

 

To buy this coverage, please go HERE.

 

Determine if Program Protection Tuition Insurance is right for you by going HERE.

Please be in touch if you have any questions about this program. 

 

PLEASE submit all camper forms by May 15th. There aren’t too many forms; all are important, and most can be completed right online.

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Keeping Campers Safe: Our Tick Management Approach:

How do you manage the threat of ticks?

While we have fewer ticks in NH than in more southern New England states, we still take ticks extremely seriously.

 

Here are some big-picture ways we protect our campers from ticks:

 

  • Our defense starts with staff education – all campers and counselors are taught what, where, and when to look for, and we have the campers do tick checks at least daily and every time they’ve been out in the bushes.
  • If a tick is found embedded on a camper while at camp, he will go to the nurse for removal and bite-site mapping, and then the tick is saved, and the camper will be monitored daily for any signs of infection.
  • If there is a parental desire or signs of infection, the tick is sent to a lab for testing.
  • We have bottles of bug spray throughout camp and on all trips.
  • We cut back brush to minimize the chance of ticks hopping onto folks as they walk around camp.

Mowglis Boys Summer Campers are Family

Our families know that Mowglis overnight summer camp for boys aged 7-15 is an extraordinary place. This is due in no small part to the wonderful families who have chosen our outdoor leadership camp for their sons. In joining the Mowglis family, you help us pass the torch, carrying on the tradition of summer camp to future generations and other families across the country.

 

From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you for becoming part of the Camp Mowglis family. Please help us spread the joy of camping. If you know of someone you’d like to invite to join our camping family, please complete our camp referral form so we can reach out.

 

Thank you – and see you soon!

Nick Robbins, Director

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