Kids + Canoes = getting nothing done.
You cant be too serious about boating, I mean boating gets pretty serious! There are some fanatical personalities out there and canoeing draws out some eccentrics. Just ask some senior Alberta Canoe Instructors and coaches about MITH. It had been a couple decades since working at summer camp, where I first started "teaching canoeing". So when I first committed to running a youth or kids summer canoe camp I thought, no problem, Ill have these kids teaching their parents by th