Extreme heat and wildfire smoke force parents to rethink summer traditions

Children's health is at risk from heat exposure and air quality degradation, affecting their summer experiences and physical well-being.

For generations, summer in America carried a particular promise — long days outdoors, the freedom of camp, the unhurried education of open air. That promise is now being renegotiated. As extreme heat and wildfire smoke arrive earlier and linger longer each year, families across the country are confronting a quiet but consequential loss: the outdoor childhood, once taken for granted, is becoming a thing that must be carefully managed, rationed, or replaced. What is disrupted here is not merely a schedule, but a shared idea of what growing up is supposed to feel like.

Extreme heat and wildfire smoke force parents to rethink summer traditions

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