Hey everyone. Welcome to the Dorenda Wilson podcast. I'm Durenda, wife to one, mom to eight,

Nana to six, homeschooling for about 24 years now. I'm also the author of the

unhurried homeschooler, a simple, mercifully short book on homeschooling, and Unhurried Grace for a

mom's Heart, which is a devotional made just, written just for moms. I am so excited today.

I have a very special guest who I'm going to introduce in

just a minute but we're going to be talking today about the topic of getting our

kids outside and there can be some challenges that come with that but I think

you're going to be really encouraged to do just that to make this more of a

priority for lots of really good reasons that you're going

to hear today.

But over our many years of raising kids, we have felt like being outside was super important.

Some of it probably stem from the fact that five of those eight kids were boys with lots

of energy to burn and a mom who wanted them to be able to be boys

and to be rowdy when necessary but who also couldn't handle all that in the house. So that was

one of the motivating factors in getting our kids outside. I also wanted to teach our kids

that was absolutely fine to be restless and loud and to

spa and wrestle with each other, but that most of the time was best if it happened outside.

So there was a teaching of manners and what's appropriate inside and outside that came along

with this, which was actually really helpful when we went to other people's houses because they knew wrestling inside was not okay.

But back to our topic, I shared an image the other day that really resonated with what we're going to be talking about.

It said this, encouraging a child to go outside in all weather builds resilience.

But more importantly, it saves them from spending

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