For Stephen McAlpin, the experience of crouching in his bathtub with his wife, Emily, as bullets whizzed through his Watertown home left him tired and still shaken a day later.

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Emily Brown, development manager for Learning Through Landscapes said: WWe believe that there's huge benefits to be gained by by children learning outdoors.

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Even the most informed bloggers on the Internet, like GigaOm's Mathew Ingram, A-list blogger Jeff Jarvis and Columbia University's Emily Bell all discovered "Kony2012" through their kids.

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The 38-year-old spent years caring for her seriously ill daughter Emily, 10, who was born with heart problems and had to be fed through a tube in her stomach.

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Emily comes less than a week after Hurricane Dennis caused more than two dozen deaths as it rampaged through Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba and Florida.

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