Who Participates in YMCA Adventure Guides?
We designed YMCA Adventure Guides for parents or other significant adults in children’s lives and their children ages five through nine. (Some YMCAs also have programs for children younger than five to give children an earlier start in the program.) An adult and child must attend program activities together as a pair. In YMCA Adventure Guides, the parent is the Guide, and the child is the Explorer. Typically, YMCA Adventure Guides programs appeal most to fathers and sons or fathers and daughters, although some YMCAs have had success with mother-son or mother-daughter programs.
