1KHO 821: What Happened to Half-Day Kindergarten? | Jordyn Koveleski Gorman, Eat, Play, Say

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Something has shifted in childhood, and most parents can feel it. In this fascinating conversation, pediatric speech-language pathologist and Eat, Play, Say founder Jordyn Koveleski Gorman joins Ginny Yurich to talk about why childhood keeps getting pushed faster, why play is far more important than most people realize, and what we've lost in the move from half-day kindergarten to full-day academics. They discuss executive function, outdoor play, friendship, loneliness in motherhood, social media pressure, and why children learn best when they have space to explore the world around them. If you've ever worried that your child is falling behind, wondered whether you're doing enough, or simply needed permission to slow down and trust the process, listen in!! You'll be reminded that sometimes the most important work of childhood looks a lot like play. Links:Eat Play Say: https://eatplaysay.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/eatplaysay Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.9	slash podcast to get started today. Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny
0:26.3	Erit and the founder of 100 Hours Outside and I have someone today who's going to be able to
0:30.4	answer I think all of your questions, all the questions that you could have. Jordan Kavaleski
0:35.4	Gorman, welcome. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so pumped to be here.
0:38.6	Okay, so you have got this platform. Is that what you would say? Yeah, I think so. Okay, platform,
0:44.8	eat, play, say. And this is a place where parents, especially parents of younger kids, can go and find
0:51.1	basically all the information that they need because Because so many things are piecemeal.
0:56.3	It's really tricky.
0:57.4	You have these kids and you're just kind of like, I don't know.
1:01.1	And things are so different than they used to be or there's just such a glut of information.
1:05.9	Can you talk about your backstory of, well, you know, what you've learned over the years, your schooling, and then why you decided to create Eat, Place. Yeah. So by trade, I'm a pediatric speech language pathologist, and I have a specialization in feeding, feeding babies and toddlers. That's what I did right before I started having my own kids. Such a passion. I love it. Love working with families. Can you talk more about
1:29.2	that? Because I'd actually, I read that on your website. I'd actually never heard of that.
1:32.8	So when you think, you know, we had one kid that needed some speech language help with like the
1:37.7	K sound and the T sound and those types of things. But I didn't know at all that a part of speech language pathology includes
1:47.9	feeding.
1:48.9	Yeah, you know, it's funny.
1:49.7	We always joke that if we had a title that included everything we could possibly
1:54.7	do in our scope of practice, it would be like 26 words long.
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