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Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Urich. I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside,

and I'm thrilled and honored to have Melanie Hempi back with us today. Yesterday you heard from her boys. And today you're going to hear from the mom. The mean mom, Jenny. The wonderful mom. The boys were fantastic. And actually, the thing that really was most intriguing to me, and you said it to me, we were at a conference together. You said it to. And it was so intriguing. The boys had just gone off to college. Maybe they were in their first year. They'd just gone away. Their twins. Off they go. And one of the things that they had told you was that all the girls were the same as each other. Yes. And I just thought, wow, there are so many unintended consequences of this excessive screen use that people don't know.

You know, there's a few at the top, like myopia.

And there's the ones that some people have, I would say most people have heard of.

But then there is, there are a lot that you wouldn't really think of until someone brings it up.

And so it's a fantastic conversation with their boys.

We're following up today because through Screenstrong, you have your own curriculum. So you have curriculum that you could do at home with your family. You have curriculum for schools. And you also just came out with this book that's for younger kids called The Adventures of Super Brain. So we have a lot to talk about, Melanie. Thanks for being here. Yeah, and I want to just

start off by talking about that comment that was made by, by Andrew, one of my boys. And one of the

first things he said, you know, we were at home after a few months of school and everything. He goes,

Mom, all the girls are the same. Just like you said. And he said, you know what? I want to

find and marry one of a kind

like wow that he's like but they all dress alike they all talk alike they're all doing the same

thing on their instagram their heads are down all the time like they're just cookie cutter and i thought

well i don't know that that was really eye-opening for me jenny we've got to raise kids that are

unique and different and have their own personalities and that don't know. That was really eye-opening for me, Jenny. We've got to raise kids that are unique and different and have their own personalities and that don't look like and act like and dress like and talk like everybody else. They have to have interest. We have to make our kids interesting. And I think this is, you know, there's a lot of mental health problems with this

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