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growth,” she said. Landis started outdoor trekking get my exercise too.” C with her girls as soon she got postpartum clearance she said, “It is much ea for hiking. “We love being outside,” she said. “We get and even now in the ra stir crazy when we stay inside.” Landis and her children love the zoo in moderate Being prepared weather, but she stays in the Hainerberg neighborhood Lisa Bishop and lets her children explore the playgrounds on most “Germany has the best USAG Wiesbaden Public Affairs mornings when the weather is cool or wet. “I want “We have rain pant them to walk and get their energy out,” she said. suits, every possib Jasmine Gardner, mother of three, purposely o stay healthy and enjoy the upcoming colder “It is always im moved into a house with a backyard when she arrived and wetter months, families at U.S. Army continued. “W to Wiesbaden earlier this year. While she and Garrison Wiesbaden can follow the German be freezing her children venture into their neighborhood traditions of enjoying fresh air, both indoors and out. and it’s 2 and area parks, she knew her children, ages Gar “There 4, 5 and 7, would spend significant time squee Outdoors is no such outside after living in Sweden. bod thing as “When we lived in Sweden, we cons Susanna Baumann, mom of three, takes her bad weather, didn’t have a car, so went everywhere by said children outside every day, regardless of weather. “If just bad bike,” Gardner said. Her daughter even hated you wait for the rain to stop, you’re never going to get clothing.” rode her bike to school. “I have pictures hated outside,” she said. “We do what the Germans do: we of my daughter riding her bike in the dark, back.” put on our warm gear and get out.” in the snow, in the rain,” she said. “In Baumann’s round trip routine begins at home, “It is a fact of life there,” Gardner said. “You rain jackets and rain p circles through Kurpark and includes the Witake them to school and drop them off and they stay the rain and cold. They esbaden farmer’s market on Wednesdays and outside for an hour no matter how cold, how rainy, she said. “When you ar Saturdays. As added benefits, her daughter how windy. It was an interesting experience for the rain, you learn ver can identify most birds they encounter, us coming from the U.S. where we spend a lot rain pants are your fr and they’ve befriended others who of time indoors, especially in the rain.” enemy.” Rain pants ar frequent the parks. Gardner said of her daughter’s and protect against b Jordyn Landis takes her girls, ages 1 transition into an American school sys- rain. For her children, and 2, outside every day, even when tem, “They have their outdoor recess they feel like regular c it is wet and cold.“I believe “If time, but it is not as nearly as much Baumann said, “I they need the fresh you wait as she used to get in the Swedish pants too because they air; it is good for for the rain school. She said to me the other and I can throw them their lungs, to stop, day, ‘Mom, my brain is so tired, not raining and the gro for their you’re never but my body has so much energy.’” rain pants.” going to get “Right when they come Karla Sweeney, m outside.” from school we go outside,”Gardner said, “I love the saying said. “They tell me now that I need to as bad weather, just ba
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Left: Addison Baumann, 4, and her brother Alex, 2, play at the Wiesbaden marktplatz. Above: In Sweden, the Gardner family bicycled everywhere, including to school with children, even in the winter months.
Left: Ella Gardner, 7, en Above: The Baumann blestone streets in the
