1KHO 863: Just Because You Have a Bad Day Doesn't Mean You Have a Bad Life | Dave Boden, Raising Gen Alpha

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The world our kids are growing up in has changed faster than most of us can keep up with, but this conversation left me more hopeful than afraid. Dave Boden shares practical wisdom for raising Gen Alpha in an age of anxiety, AI, endless screens, and constant pressure to perform. We talk about resilience, emotional health, why kids need stretch zones instead of comfort zones, and how parents can help children build the kind of character that will matter no matter what the future looks like. If you've ever wondered how to prepare your kids for a world that didn't exist when you were growing up, this episode will leave you encouraged and equipped. Dave's book, Raising Gen Alpha, is available wherever books are sold. Connect with Dave at https://daveboden.uk and subscribe to his newsletter, Empowering the Next Generation. A huge thank you to our sponsors! Check them out below: BetterHelp: Visit www.BetterHelp.com/1000HOURS today to get 10% off your first month. Quince - Visit www.quince.com/outside and get free shipping and 365 day returns IXL Learning - Head to www.ixl.com/1000hours to get an exclusive 20% savings on your membership Whisker - Take care of your cats while taking an additional $50 off bundles with code 1000HOURS when you shop www.whisker.com/1000HOURS woom Bikes - Go to woom.com and use code 1000HOURS at checkout for 10% off your new bike purchase, excluding the woom WOW. Muzzle Sleep Tape - Go to MuzzleSleep.com and use code 1000HOURS for 10% off. Ethos Life Insurance - Get your free quote at ethos.com/1000hours Active Skin Repair - Don’t forget to put this in your first aid kit! Visit ActiveSkinRepair.com and use the code 1000HOURS to save 20% on all Active Skin Repair products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Urge and the founder of 1000 Hours
0:04.2	Outside and this is the coolest situation. I am a huge fan of Leah Bodem. She wrote a book called
0:09.4	Moderner Miss Mason. She has these incredible middle grade biographies that she's written and just
0:15.3	all around an incredible person. She's got this cool substack. You just feel so encouraged to talk with
0:20.7	her. And then I got a book in the
0:22.3	mail by Dave Bowden. And I was like, huh, could it be? And it sure is. So you are a writer as well,
0:32.6	Dave. Welcome. I'm so glad you're here. Thank you so much for having me. It is very interesting
0:38.5	having two writers in the house. It makes for very interesting dinner table conversations. I can
0:43.4	tell you that. Yes. And in some ways there's a similar focus. It's a focus on having better
0:49.5	family life. It's a focus on children. It's a focus on these growing up years. Yeah, so it's very rare, I think, to have a husband and a wife that are both authors.
0:59.0	And in this case, Leah wrote your forward.
1:02.0	Yeah, it's the first time we've ever done a project together like this.
1:05.0	But we've always said that if you sort of cut us both through and through, we kind of bleed empowering the next generation. That's what we feel our sense of purposes, really. So everything we do has to somehow flow out of that. So that's where you get it from Leo or me, really. Yeah, absolutely. Empowering the next generation. So the book that you have written most recently, you have a lot of books. You have a book called Parallel Faith, walking alongside
1:27.7	others on their journey to Christ. You have like or follow what every teenager needs to decide
1:32.6	about Jesus. So a great book for teens. What you're made for is another book you had. It's a
1:37.7	guide to finding purpose. And then this newest one here is called Raising Gen Alpha, helping kids
1:43.0	navigate everything from anxiety to AI. And Leah talks
1:47.6	about, you know, you've always been the type of person since becoming an adult who enjoys being
1:52.4	around teenagers. Some do. Some don't so much. So can you talk about that part of your life and
1:57.8	the insight that you have because you've had so many conversations with
2:02.5	the next generation. Yeah, I think the first thing to say is that I love being around teenagers
2:07.6	because I can remember being a teenager myself, right, and how difficult it is and challenging
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