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Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast.

My name is Ginny Urich and the founder of 1000 Hours Outside and I've just read a fantastic book.

It is called Rest, Play Grow, making sense of preschoolers or anyone who acts like one. But I found that this would be so applicable to parents of any age. For whatever stage your kids are in, but also for yourself, there is so much that you learn about in this book. And the author, Dr. Deborah McNamara is here. She also has a book called Nourished. Welcome, Deborah. Thank you so much for having me and

for your enthusiasm. I'm delighted you loved it. It, uh, people, you know, young kids, you are so

misunderstood. Yes, they're so misunderstood. Okay. so would you give us a little bit of your backstory?

You did a postdoctoral internship with Gordon Newfeld, and I just actually had the

opportunity of interviewing him, and I've been talking about his book constantly, hold on

to your kids.

This takes it, I think, in a, like, there's different depth here in rest, play, grow, as well as really

focusing on these earlier years. So how did you get interested in this topic? I had a child and

I was a counselor. And while I was dealing with adults with their own counseling issues, I thought,

now that I'm a parent, I want to try to figure out what that looks like in terms of raising a child in today's world where we understand attachment and human development.

And so I basically said, I need to find some experts in the field that I can anchor into some science.

And I found Gordon Neufeld's work.

And that was 22 years ago.

And so I've done nothing but study

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