1KHO 25: How to Connect with Your Kids Amidst Busy Schedules & the Siren Calls of Technology | Greta Eskridge | The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast - S2 E19

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Adventures, no matter how big or how small, push us out of our comfort zones and help us to grow as people and to connect as family and friends. But with hectic schedules and constant access to technology, how can we ensure we are connecting with our kids in meaningful and lasting ways. Greta Eskridge, author of Adventuring Together, encourages and inspires with practical tips and ideas for crafting that life you really want for you and your family. Buy your copy of Adventuring Together here: https://amzn.to/3EHxdZb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 1,000 hours outside podcast. I love saying that because it means I'm going to
0:11.7	someone I really love and And today it's Greta.
0:15.2	Greta welcome.
0:16.2	Hello, thanks for having me. This is awesome.
0:20.2	Yeah, I'm so glad. So this is Greta Eskridge. You may know her on Instagram as Ma and Pa Modern. We can talk about that a little bit too. It's a fun name.
0:31.0	Greta Eskridge wrote the book Adventuring Together, How to Create Connections and
0:35.6	make lasting memories with your kids. It's fantastic. I read it this past week. We're going to be talking
0:41.2	a lot about adventuring together.
0:43.3	And then she also has another book coming out next spring.
0:47.2	So Greta welcome, can you take just a couple minutes and tell us about you,
0:52.4	tell us about your family yeah I'd love to
0:55.0	so I'm Greta and I'm a second generation homeschool mom that means I was homeschooled a long time ago. I didn't know that. Yes, yeah. I did not know that. That's neat. That's really unique. Yeah, it's fun. There were a lot less of us back in the olden days.
1:19.2	My parents were pioneers. But I loved being homeschooled so much that I always
1:25.3	planned to homeschool my own kids and I'm going to tell you a funny story and
1:29.7	we're going to get sidetracked already. That's fine, yep. When I started dating my husband,
1:35.2	like we weren't even dating, like we were hanging out.
1:38.3	We were hanging out.
1:39.3	And I told him I was 18 and I said, hey know when I have kids I planned a homeschool so if you're like not
1:47.9	okay with homeschooling we probably shouldn't hang out anymore.
1:51.3	Like right from the get-go. That's it. This is it. These are my expectations. This is really important to me. So clearly I loved homeschooling because I wanted to homeschool my own kids. And in between homeschooling myself, being homeschooled myself and homeschooling my kids, I taught public high school for five years. I was an English teacher and I loved that as well. It was a lot of fun, but when my first baby was born,
2:18.3	I knew the time that I would have with him is short and it's true he's almost 18 now it has flown by and I just
2:27.6	decided that's it we're gonna start homeschooling now so all my kids have been home with me the whole time. We have four.
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