#3 Ginny Yurich: How to Keep You and the Kids Outside, All Year Round

“The premise is simple, but the impact is profound.”
– Ginny Yurich, Founder of 1000 Hours Outside

The concept at the core of this movement is simple - the amount of time kids spend outside ‘actually matters’, though you may not hear this very often. A childhood flooded with nature time benefits kids (and adults) in untold ways.

In this episode, we chat with one of Gill’s long-term inspirations, Ginny Yurich.

If you’re not familiar with 1000 Hours Outside, do check it out. We found it to be a great tool for thinking creatively about how to spend more time outdoors throughout the day.

We taked about:

•  How to find more time for the outdoors - whether you're in the city, the suburbs, or the countryside

• The importance of letting kids be bored and create their own fun.

• How to create outdoor play spaces

• Peter Gray’s 13-year-old son heading off to Europe on his own (in the ‘80s) - that really stuck with us.

• How Ginny’s teenage children manage to get outside, even with all the pressures teenagers face today.

We loved chatting with Ginny. She’s an incredible resource.

Andrew took 23 pages of notes during our conversation... which says a lot! Thank you, Ginny, it was such a pleasure.

1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Add the Wonder Nature Curriculum is here!

This new resource is designed to be cross-curricular, multi-age, and affordable; but more than that it, was written to capture attention through the fascinating things and interconnections that are already embedded in our world.  

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A few more favorites:
🌲How to Raise a Wild Child by Scott D. Sampson
🌲Balanced and Barefoot by Angela J. Hanscom
🌲Free-Range Kids by Lenore Skenazy
🌲There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather by Linda Åkeson McGurk
🌲Coyote’s Guide to Connecting with Nature by Jon Young
🌲Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
🌲Outdoor Kids in an Inside World by Steven Rinella
🌲2,000 Miles Together by Ben Crawford