Dialing Down Anxiety with Nature and Play - with Dr. Mandi Baker - The A-Parently Podcast #36

It's impossible to deny the value of spending time in nature. In our worlds of construction and traffic, it's more important than ever to get our kids outside to explore and have fun.Mandi Baker hops on the A-parently Podcast today to examine the science and data of nature's incredible benefits. Join us for some tips on incorporating these benefits into your kid's lives!Guest Bio:Mandi Baker is a passionate researcher and lecturer with a special interest in the emotional demands, people skills, and power-relations of people-centric service work. She explores these concepts in organized outdoor experiences, youth & community development, recreation and leisure contexts. Her work explores everyday work experiences through sociological concepts to offer fresh insights to ethical and just employment, leadership and education.Mandi currently teaches at Brock University and the University of Waterloo. She holds an adjunct position with the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at Brock and the Research Centre for Public Health, Equity and Human Flourishing at Torrens University Australia. She is an editor for the Journal of Youth Development and the World Leisure Journal and serves on peak camp association councils internationally. Mandi also runs Lamped Research and training consultancy, which you can find at lampedresearch.com