Getting Kids Outside // 1000 Hours in 9 months!!! // 2023 Recap
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2024
- 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!
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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
Y'all are so inspiring! We are starting it today! Love all your content. I found you a few months ago and have loved your biblical outlook and focus in everything you do! Thank you for all you do!
You are the most proactive couple I’ve seen on the internet with quality videos as well. Blessing!
Always am blessed by your content guys. Thanks so much. I wanted to know if and how you balance time with friends because you seem to do life mostly as a family. Just want to know your thoughts around going on outings with friends vs as a family.
I didn’t know you lived in Couer d’Alene! My in laws live there. What a beautiful place to live, hike, and enjoy! Thanks for all that you share and your encouragement.
This was sooo helpful and encouraging to hear! I'm a mom to 6 blessings and Charlotte Mason is what convinced me to just be outside and let them learn and observe without interrupting their games and imagination!!❤
I know you shared some of your winter gear, but it would be nice to have a master list of gear you’ve loved for each season!
I have gleaned so much knowledge and encouragement from the both of you and your videos and podcasts. It has truly blessed me as a mother. Thank you!
I started this last year in August. We are getting closer to August and we only got 500 hours outside so far. I was hopeful to finish the 1000 by the time we started but I don't think it's going to happen. I'm currently 8 months pregnant and my husband is out of town for work. 😅 we will continue to hit the 1000 . But probably start over in August again. Hopefully we can get it done 2nd time around . Good for you guys!!
You guys inspired me to start seriously tracking when you released your first video about this and we are at 250 hours!
YES 👏🏼 👏🏼 congratulations!!! 🎉 Ginny Yurich would be SO proud of you guys!
We just finished our 1,000 hours last week! We counted down and made a huge deal 😆
we grew up in the 60/70s and we lived outside and played
only ate and slept in the house
our farm was our play area
the barn,old grainers,old machinery
playing in the bush
I look up to you guys as a couple and as a family. ❤ your videos are always a blessing to listen to and learn from. God bless you. Thank you for sharing your lives.
Love ,love this video, we're doing this... can't wait to begin. Look forward to more and more videos.
Congrats on your 1000 hours! That's awesome.
Congratulations you guys! You inspire me to be a better mama thank you ❤
Question what gear do you use in the summer to deter bugs from biting etc…????????
Love Charlotte Mason's encouragement!
Camping trips really help! We get a solid 48 hours in a weekend! Also going on vacation in the winter instead of summer allowed us to rack up a lot of hours in January !
Agreed! Our hiking trips racked up our hours fast! Also, hanging with other like-minded homeschoolers for 8 hours outside every Friday. They would do their PE group and then we would stick around afterward, picnic, and the kids would just play!
Food is always the stressor!
What kind of things do you guys pack?
Yes I’d love ideas on this too!
I would love a whole video about it. Healthy picnic options. We also do a lot of picnics wherever we go (zoo, parks, woods, holiday parks, field, playground) but it’s always a challenge to pack something healthy what the kids also love. They love certain fruits like watermelon, all kinds of berries, bananas, apples with natural peanut butter, whole grain bread rolls (also home made ones) with salami sticks, pizza rolls ( homemade), corn on the cob, boiled eggs, nuts, dried unsweetened fruit, homemade pancakes or apple pancakes (oat flour or whole grain flour), and then I usually run out of options….. they also love rice pudding (only rice and milk) with a drizzle of honey or unsweetened apple sauce….
So I would love a video about your to go or grab and go ideas.
Can’t wait to see how you guys will do it with a newborn! I would love any tips about that :)
Love this! You inspired us to start this challenge with our 3 kids as well!! I do have a question; how do you track when not all of your kids are outside together, like when your boys go camping and are outside overnight but not all of you? This was one of my questions! Thanks!
Love this!!! Could you share tips on how to spend a lot of hours outside when it’s hot? Fall and winter is kind of never a problem but summer when it’s so hot and you don’t have a pool or lake close by it’s harder…
Hey how fun, we live up in Rathdrum!
So this was a very timely video! I have recently gotten very interested in the 1,000 hours outside goal. Y'all mentioned the heat but I live in middle GA and it gets so hot and so humid from june-september. Don't think biking will cut it for us. So I'm going to have to brainstorm on that...I appreciate this video tho it was still helpful.
The last 2 months I have gotten so much more intentional about getting outside and my mental health is so much better and my kids haven't gotten sick!!
We live in SE Tennessee and got a pool membership this summer and that has been a huge game changer for our family. :)
We're in Alabama, and I totally feel you on the hot, humid weather (and I'll be very pregnant through the summer this year)! I was born and raised in Florida, but the heat and humidity together still make me feel really bad, so I just can't go out in it much. I'll take the cold any day. lol Doing anything with water has helped some, but we really try to get our hours in the rest of the year! July - mid-September are the hardest, for sure!
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Haha! We really are big fans. 😂 Miss you guys!
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If you offer a discount code sometime please post it😀
Love your channel and content
Just curious how you track your time. Do you start a stop watch? Write down each segment of time you spent as soon as you come inside, or something else? We do so many short segments outside that would be harder to track than say a two hour block but I'd like to start tracking it somehow. Thanks. :)
What method do you use to track your hours?
Is there a printable/chart you used to keep track or did you make your own??
Starting tomorrow! We live in southern Louisiana so it can be tricky and I have a 4 month old which makes it even trickier. So any heat tips are welcome!
What bikes and trailer brand did you guys invest in?
I've been trying to up our outside time. With littles and me having cold urticaria below 65 degrees and also major reactions to mosquitoes, I'm aiming for 500 to start. Then we ran into the air quality issues from Canada's fires... That set us back a lot. How would you handle the air quality issues?
Is there a good app to track the hours outside that you recommend? Anyone recommend?
Cobgratulations on 1000 hours! I have a question: if you are on a 7 hour hike, what do you do if one of you has to go on the toilet or if you are on your period? Hope thats not to tmi 🙈
Literally outside :D For menstration - overnight pads. . .little plastic trash bags. Hand sanitiser/wipes. . .
@@aletteanne1 thank you ❤ we are planning on starting to hike with oir kids so this is helpful to know!
@@rojdasophie4310 you're welcome!
You all have inspired so many changes in my life recently- thank you! And my husband and I have agreed this is a great goal to pursue! We live in Florida so the weather challenges will be a bit… different 😅