Today we completed our 1000 hours of being outside!! This has been a big time family goal for us this year. We did it in nine months! We’re still tracking and going to finish out the rest of the summer and see how many hours we can get outside. This has really been a family affair. It has been something that Elisha has been very onboard with. This wasn’t just “my baby.” I think that’s why it happened so quickly. Elisha took the lead on this actually more often than I did. It has been something our whole family has embraced. We’re excited to give a quick recap of it today!
Being able to track each hour that we spent outside was a very quantifiable way to obviously track progress and account it as a win when we got fifteen minutes outside here or twenty minutes outside there. Seeing the 1000 hours come to completion was rewarding. I think it not only changed our life in such a beneficial way, it really changed our future life as well. We are going to integrate this into our lifestyle forever because of how much it enhanced our every day life. Whether or not we track it as detailed as we did this last year, I know that our habits and appetites are forever changed because of the intentionality we put into being outside over the last nine months. I know this sounds so dramatic, but we truly are a different family than we were nine months ago because of this.
We’re never going to go back to where we were before, now that we’ve experienced the value of being outdoors. Our kids have this huge craving to be outside. We have so much momentum on our side. It’s no effort for us to get outside. We feel something is wrong and missing when we don’t go outside and I love that!
Mentioned in the video:
- "There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather" by Linda Åkeson McGurk - amzn.to/3P0HIPb
- "Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child" by Anthony Esolen - amzn.to/3P0HsQd
- Winter Clothing + Organization for Out-of-Door Children (Screen Free Family) // 1000 Hours Outside - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_1htMXrlnNA.html
- 1000 Hours Outside // Four Toddlers in Below Freezing Weather // Winter Edition 2023 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UWo6GNdTizY.html
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00:00-2:06 - Intro
2:06-6:27 - 1,000 hours outside benefits
6:27-9:35 - Changes of seasons
9:35-13:24 - Marriage Maximizer
13:24-14:39 - Replacing screen time
14:39-15:53 - Outdoor clothes
15:53-20:39 - Things we did outside each season
20:39-25:28 - Kids don’t notice the weather
25:28-28:06 - Summer activities
28:06-29:56 - Challenges to get outdoors
29:56-31:08 - Organization
31:08-32:32 - Closing
8 июн 2023
