Why don't we take the gondola?

together with her husband and two children, our blog partner Stefanie Schindler, whose hiking and travel blog "a daily travel mate" provides active travellers of all ages with inspiration for hiking, climbs mountains, circles lakes and marvels at volcanoes. The main thing is to be active, the main thing is to be outdoors - because she can never keep her feet still. Active travelling, hiking, discovering nature with her family. For her, #ForTheNextStep has a completely different meaning.

As parents, we have to adapt our goals to the needs of our children in order to bring them closer to the joy of nature in the long term.

"Our path leads us out into nature, but not always up to a summit, because when hiking with children, it's clear that the journey is the destination."

"Since we've had children, we've taken the gondola, because for us adults the gondola is a fantastic way to see peaks that we can't reach with children and children love cable car rides."

We have been hiking and travelling as a family for three and a half years with our older daughter and for almost a year now there have even been four of us with a baby and soon a toddler. Hiking and travelling has changed a lot with children. But not our love of the mountains and the relaxation and strength that we find in nature.

I want to introduce my daughters to the beauty of nature and the mountains. Away from the prefabricated playground worlds that some parents tend to confuse with circuit training for the kids, I want to inspire my daughters to play freely outside. Nature is a huge playground for our children. We adults just need to learn to take a closer look again. It's the little things that inspire children.

"We love travelling and we want to show our children the beauty and diversity of this world so that they can later see it as something worth protecting."

Rocks and roots instead of a climbing frame. Throwing stones into a stream and holding children's toes in a cold stream instead of a chlorinated swimming pool. Outdoor snacks instead of children's cafés. Children's hands touching a pine cone for the first time. The fascination of discovering an ant trail for the first time. Marvelling at flowers, animals, moss and small waterfalls. For us parents, the experience of reaching the summit takes a back seat or even recedes into the unattainable distance. That doesn't always make us happy, but when our children's eyes light up along the way, then we parents are happy too. Summit or not.

I want to show my daughters the beauty of nature so that they see it as worth protecting. This is only possible if they have seen and experienced nature.

Hiking with children is a completely different kind of challenge for us adults and we can learn and rediscover so many things that we have now carelessly walked past. And if you have a problem with patience, I'm sure you'll rediscover it too.

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