American children ages 8-12 spend 4-6 hours a day using screens, and teens spend up to nine hours, according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 1000 Hours Outside ...

Find a preserve here. 1000 Hours Outside has a few options to track your time. You can go track on paper or on their app. Their paper trackers are available here for FREE. They offer a few ...

They might hear the siren call of apps or social media ... "Nature always grounds my children," wrote the founder of 1,000 Hours Outside. "The time we give them outside to freely play provides ...

And fortunately, you don’t need another app to monitor your family’s outdoor time: 1000 Hours Outside provides free printouts to do it the analog way. I’ve already printed one out and have ...

Her latest challenge is to spend 1,000 hours outside, under the sky by the end ... is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android ...

Kids spend thousands of hours a year in front of screens. I wanted to get my kids outside for at least 1,000 hours a year. As parents, we can set the example by spending as much time outside as we ...

She started tracking the time their family spent outside and quickly realized it was adding up to over 1,000 hours a year. And thus an idea formed: the 1,000 Hours Outside challenge. Yurich ...

Yurich has set the goal at 1,000 hours of outdoor play a year. “You can gain more by doing less just by stepping outside,” Yurich said. Benefits of playing outside include bettering social ...

People around the world have even taken it as a challenge to spend at least 1,000 hours a year outside. The 1,000-hour outdoor challenge was created by a family in Michigan who, according to their ...

Ginny Yurich, with five kids of her own, urges families to spend at least 1,000 hours outside every year. Because this works out to roughly the same amount of time that kids spend on screens ...

Of course, exposure to nature and time spent outside are not necessarily the same thing. A quick perusal of the 1,000 Hours Outside website implies that the ideal we should be striving for ...