Ginny Yurich (@1000hoursoutside) drove 5 hours up the road from Michigan to Toronto to hang out with Leslie and me. We went for a walk outside (of course!) and recorded this podcast—our second outdoors podcast in a row after Nickisha The Dog Walker!
Why outside? I'm glad you asked!
Ginny Yurich is the homeschooling mother of 5 (!) who has spirited a movement called 1000 Hours Outside. I like 1000 as you know! 1000 Awesome Things was my first blog, 1000 formative books is ... this entire podcast. So when 3 Bookers globally kept telling me to interview Ginny I looked her up and saw she was a fan of 1000 and I knew ... this was going to be good. And it was even better than I thought!
Grab some headphones! Put on some shoes! Let's mutually peel ourselves off screens and scrolling and let's step into the sun, into the wind, into the air and talk about parenting pressures, raising a wild child, old dangerous playground equipment, the benefits of spinning, why osteoporosis is a childhood disease, raising readers, and, of course, Ginny's 3 most formative books.
Ginny is the bestselling author of '1000 Hours Outside,' 'Until The Streetlights Come On,' and (out next week!) her brand-new book 'Homeschooling' which has the catchy subtitle "You're doing it right just by doing it." I found her formative books truly fascinating and her work is heavily research-based which builds upon her Master's in Education and an almost endless reservoir of knowledge about raising enduringly popular and healthy children in today's cognitively-exhausting world....
I absolutely love Ginny Yurich! Open the door, hear the birds, and let's flip the page into Chapter 148 now...
Chapter 148: Ginny Yurich obviates obsolete offspring with 1000 hours outside
View full transcript here
CONNECT with GINNY
Ginny’s 3 Books
First book (24:01)
Second book (50:10)
Third book (1:34:35)
WORDCLOUD OF THE CHAPTER
Quotes
“I just really was a crummy mom.” — Ginny Yurich | 3 Books Podcast
“Isn’t nature cool?” — Ginny Yurich | 3 Books Podcast
“It was just like constant nursing and crying, and I was like I am not surviving at all.” — Ginny Yurich | 3 Books Podcast
“It started in the fall of 2011 when we went to a park from 9 in the morning to 1 in the afternoon and it changed my life.” — Ginny Yurich | 3 Books Podcast
“The outdoors, the dirt is good for your immune system.” — Ginny Yurich | 3 Books Podcast
“We don’t have these problems that a lot of modern parents have, which is fighting over the screens. We just don’t have those. The kids are vibrant, and healthy, and they can have conversations.” — Ginny Yurich | 3 Books Podcast
“If you have time away from screens it’s a protective measure, and it’s for kids and adults.” — Ginny Yurich | 3 Books Podcast
“I make sure that I read at a minimum three chapters a day.” — Ginny Yurich | 3 Books Podcast
“As a homeschooler, you cannot recreate the classroom.” — Ginny Yurich | 3 Books Podcast
“Our best days are the days where we run out of time for screens.” — Ginny Yurich | 3 Books Podcast
“Screens are the second choice, not the first choice.” — Ginny Yurich | 3 Books Podcast
“Homeschooling is mainly modeling.” — Ginny Yurich | 3 Books Podcast
Show Notes
‘Free to Learn’ by Dr. Peter Grey
‘How To Raise A Wild Child’ by Scott D. Sampson
‘Last Child in the Woods’ by Richard Louv
‘Glow Kids’ by Nicholas Kardaras
‘Digital Madness’ by Nicholas Kardaras
‘Simplicity Parenting’ by Kim John Payne and Lisa M. Ross
‘Smart Moves’ by Dr. Carla Hannaford
‘Rich Habits’ by Tom Corley
‘Born Standing Up’ by Steve Martin
‘Moonbound’ by Robin Sloan
‘Walkable City’ by Jeff Speck, Chapter 57
‘Sideways Stories from Wayside School’ by Louis Sachar, Chapter 100
‘Breathe’ by James Nestor
‘Will the Circle Be Unbroken?’ by Sean Dietrich
‘The Anxious Generation’ by Jonathan Haidt
‘God of the Woods’ by Liz Moore
