131. Getting Kids Outside | Ginny Yurich of 1000 Hours Outside

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

A change in season is the perfect time to make a change in your family’s habits. If you have been feeling the pull to get outside more with your kids, you don’t want to miss this conversation with Ginny Yurich of 1000 Hours Outside. Not only does Ginny share a whole host of reasons why outdoor time is beneficial to our children, she also shares practical strategies for making outdoor time an achievable and celebrated part of your family’s life. I make it a priority in my own family to get plenty of time outside in nature, and the benefits are undeniable.

In this episode, we cover:

- How spending time outdoors can ease difficult seasons of motherhood

- The impact of outdoor time on children’s academic well-being

- A surprising factor in healthy eyesight

- Overcoming the challenges of getting outside with young kids

- Making outdoor time a priority no matter where you live

- Enjoying outdoor time during cold winters

- The number one way to maximize outdoor time

- When to allow risk-taking and when to step in

- What you can put in your yard to encourage free play

- Finding community in the shared goal of spending time outdoors

RESOURCES

1000 Hours Outside App on iOS and Android

Smart Moves by Dr. Carla Hannaford

How to Raise a Wild Child by Scott D. Sampson

Glow Kids by Nicholas Kardaras

Hike it Baby

Wild and Free

1000 Hours Outside Facebook Group

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast. Today, I'm having on Ginny from
0:05.1	1,000 hours outside. This is actually take two our first podcast recording got a little bit messed up with audio
0:12.2	And so we decided to record again because she has so much great information and motivation to share on getting outside
0:19.8	Why it's beneficial important for kids important for moms and then some tips on how to do it and how to fit it into your schedule
0:27.3	As you can tell from the name her goal is for families to get outside 1,000 hours a year
0:32.6	For some of you that will sound like not enough for some of you that'll sound like a crazy high number
0:38.5	So listen in on our conversation and hear what she shares on how to actually make this happen and why it's important
0:46.4	My name is Lisa mother of seven and creator of the blog and YouTube channel farmhouse on boom join me as I share with you
0:53.5	My love for creating a handmade home from scratch cooking and a little mom and entrepreneur life along the way
1:05.8	Well, thanks so much for joining me. I really appreciate it. I'm so glad to be here. It's getting more
1:11.5	To where like I think last time we were centered more around winter, but now it's
1:16.4	full of time totally so start off by telling a little bit about your mission and your
1:23.2	Website your I find out that you had an app. I don't think I realized last time that you had an app
1:29.7	People ask for years and years about having an app and I was like no, you know
1:34.8	We're trying to like hear from screens, but just having an app that helps people to record their time
1:40.0	It's a timer and it gives little badges. It's a fun app and it came out last fall and I think it's gone really well
1:46.7	We get a lot of cool feedback about it. It's got a journal feature people can put a couple pictures in from the day and
1:51.9	Then go back and look and see, you know what they did and he's checking their time for them. That's cool
1:56.6	I actually thought my husband invented it for you because he was like well, she needs an app and so I search it
2:02.0	I was like, oh, she has one
2:04.0	Like did you make that so yeah, you already thought of that
2:07.2	But yeah, tell us a bit about what
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