1KHO 593: It's Our Duty to Protect Childhood | Sean Dietrich, Over Yonder

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Sean Dietrich returns for his fourth conversation with Ginny Yurich, and it’s one of his most powerful yet. From the near-extinction of kids on bikes to the loss of long attention spans, Sean names what many parents quietly feel — that a way of life has disappeared almost overnight. He shares how a few months with a flip phone reshaped his focus, how fiction can tell the truest truths, and why childhood once “alive with wonder” is now in danger of being managed instead of lived. This episode is a call to remember and rebuild. Sean and Ginny talk about children learning to self-manage in the woods, the discipline of reading when every app competes for our eyes, and the beauty of cursive, handwritten words. It’s equal parts nostalgia and warning, wisdom and humor — and a reminder that protecting childhood isn’t sentimental. It’s essential. Get your copy of Over Yonder here Get your copy of The Absolute Worst Christmas Ever here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You subscribe to music, TV, your gym, maybe even your weekly flowers, so why not your car?
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0:30.2	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast.
0:32.7	My name is Ginny Urich and the founder of 1000 Hours Outside.
0:35.6	I'm back for the fourth time. This is so cool.
0:40.2	Sean Diedrich, welcome. Thank you for having me. Four times. Wow. Four times. One of the times you were
0:46.9	in a parking lot at the mall. That yesterday I did the same thing to some poor woman. She said,
0:53.9	oh, you're in your car.
0:55.2	I said, I'm sorry, I'm on the road today. And so we did a podcast in the car.
1:00.8	Yeah, you, I think you were surrounded by like stringed instruments. You could see instruments everywhere.
1:06.6	Lady was not quite as gracious as you were. well you travel you travel and do it's really remarkable
1:13.0	Sean you talk in your books about how you dropped out of school in this in the middle school
1:17.4	seventh grade and today you are traveling the country probably the world doing shows and music
1:24.8	and telling people your story and then also you're an author and you have
1:29.5	written so many books it's a remarkable story if anyone has had a hard life and they just need
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