wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2008 at 6:44pm:

We are looking at staying 5 days, at least that is what he says he wants to do. He loves exploring and swimming above fishing. However, when he is catching a lot of fish he becomes more interested. We are not wanting to do any long or hard portages. We would like to see some new areas are not familiar with other lakes.

For variety & short portages, The B-chain is a good suggestion as long as you go only as far as Fern & then backtrack - an option I'm looking at doing with my kids this year also.  If you keep going the Fern-Oliphaunt portage is tough, but doable & then you probably need to loop back to Pickerel via Deux Rivieres to Dore which can be impassable when water is low.

I've found that kids do portages pretty well, maybe better than me since they aren't carrying as much load.  That said, if you want to avoid portages there's lots to explore between Stanton & Nym with little portaging.  You could spend the whole time on Pickerel without paddling the whole thing, esp if you spend any of the time fishing/ swimming/ exploring.
-Tom