Could you spend 1,000 hours outside this year? How to take the challenge TODAY 1 day ago Gabrielle Frank
It started as a lark. In the fall of 2011, Ginny Yurich had three kids under the age of 3 and spent most days struggling to keep them occupied. A friend suggested Yurich join her in trying a concept popularized in the 1800s by British educator Charlotte Mason: Children should be outside four to six hours during tolerable weather days. They agreed to meet in a park with some blankets and food for the kids and see how it went. Yurich was skeptical. I thought it was the most absurd thing ever . I m like, Oh goodness, what are these kids going to do? . This is going to go so awful, Yurich remembered thinking at the time. So we went to this park . and we spread out our blankets and the kids just played. I don t know why I was so dumbfounded, but I was just in awe.