1KHO 123: The Cost of Preserving Childhood | Jessica Smartt, Let Them Be Kids

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Jessica Smartt, author of Let Them Be Kids: Adventure, Boredom, Innocence, and Other Gifts Children Need as well as Memory-Making Mom: Building Traditions That Breathe Life Into Your Home joins us to talk about the costs involved with preserving childhood. Leaving space in your life for boredom, monitoring screen usage, allowing for moments of failure, and intentionally adding adventure to your days isn't easy - but it is worth it on many levels. Just because it feels hard doesn't mean you're doing it wrong. Jessica will encourage you and give you practical ideas as you seek to find balance in your home and to value imagination and creativity. Learn more about Jessica here >> http://smarttereachday.com/ and at @jessica.smartt on Instagram Purchase your copy of Let Them Be Kids here >> https://amzn.to/3S1cUgO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right here we go. Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. My name is
0:05.3	Ginny Erich. I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside and I have an author today of a book
0:11.2	that I just adored called Let Them Be Kids.
0:14.8	Jessica Smirt is the author.
0:16.4	Welcome, Jessica.
0:18.0	Thanks for having me, Ginny, and thanks so much for all you're doing.
0:21.8	I'm just so grateful for how you're helping parents
0:24.6	and the work that you're doing.
0:26.2	So yeah, it's an honor to be here.
0:28.3	Oh, I'm so thrilled that you're here.
0:29.8	So Jessica's last name is Smart, but Smart has two T's and so you can find Jessica at
0:36.8	Jessica dot smart on Instagram and then the website is smarter each day. I love that
0:42.4	but with two teas.
0:43.4	So that last name has been to your advantage, I think,
0:46.7	Jessica.
0:48.0	It has.
0:48.9	And I was actually a teacher, a middle school teacher
0:51.6	when I got married and they just thought that was about the funniest
0:54.8	thing ever that I was going to be so smart, you know?
0:57.5	Yeah, I miss it smart, that's awesome, with two teas.
1:00.4	So I've got your bio here that you began your motherhood blog smarter each day that's
1:04.0	smarter with two teas one week after your first baby was born you live with your
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