Like nature and the animal kingdom around us, the time of hibernation is so necessary for our tired limbs, our burdened minds.

What's the guys? Jeff and Jeremy here, another episode of Five Minute Fatherhood.

This might be the one Five Minute Fatherhood where I don't speak because I have no idea how to do this.

This one is embracing the winter. No winter in Maui. I know. Embracing winter as a family team, which I can talk about winter in

Maui, which is right now, 79, 89 degrees the other day in winter. That just means a little cool

breeze. So I can't talk much to this. But, you know, all jokes aside, I do think this is actually really important because you have to have a plan in those places. Washington was more like this with the rain, right? Not the cold or the snow. Where it's just it changes your life and how you're going to go outside and play and toddlers and rituals and all these different things. I think it's really important to have a plan to how to attack that season for the best of your family.

So how would you guys, how do you guys do this in good old

Cincinnati? Oh man. Yeah, you can stop talking now, Jeff. 89 degrees. It is freezing out today.

It's like 32 degrees. And I don't know how cold it is where you guys are. I know it gets a lot

colder other places. So I wanted to, yeah, I love what Jeff said about it. 32 degrees and I don't know where how cold it is where you guys are I know it gets a lot colder

other places so I wanted to yeah I love what Jeff said about a plan I really think that is important

and I read this amazing little snippet about winter from Bridget Anna McNeil who's a British

nature writer and I want to just talk about what it means to really lead your family into a winter season.

And so she writes, the winter solstice time is no longer celebrated as it once was

with the understanding that this is a period of descent and rest of going within our homes, within ourselves, and taking in all that

we have been through, all that has passed in this full year, which is coming to a close.

Like nature and the animal kingdom around us, the time of hibernation is so necessary for

our tired limbs, our burdened minds. Our modern culture teaches avoidance at a max

at this time. Alcohol, lights, shopping, overworking, overspending, comfort food, and consumerism.

And yet the natural tug to go inwards, as nearly all creatures creatures are doing is strong and the weather so bitter

that people are left feeling that winter is hard because for those of us without burning fires and

big festive families it can be lonely and isolating whereas in actual fact winter is kind

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