The '15 Minutes Outside' Challenge
I just started reading 15 Minutes Outside by Rebecca P. Cohen. I planned on doing a volume review only instead, I'1000 turning it into a challenge…for myself and for whomever else would like to bring together in!
The challenge is this: During the month of January, our goal is to spend at least 15 minutes outside each day.
I know what you're thinking. "Couldn't you lot take chosen a month that wasn't in the dead of winter to begin this challenge?"
Well, that'due south kind of the indicate. I'm a off-white-atmospheric condition fan of being outdoors. I like being outside when it'due south 72 degrees, sunny, with just the slightest breeze. When information technology's xv degrees or 100 degrees? No thanks. I'll stick with the climate-controlled indoors, cheers very much.
And let me ask you this: Have you spent an entire dayindoors with my two boys? They practice 'indoors' about also every bit I do 'outdoors' in the bitter cold and stifling estrus. They're bouncing off the walls, fighting over toys, and brand information technology their utmost priority to drive their poor mother completely insane. Which, by the way, they accept been successful at for the past two Januarys.
So…we're going to endeavour to become outside for at least fifteen consecutive minutes every solar day this January (much to my dismay, shuffling in and out of the car doesn't count). If there is a day or two where the weather is just evidently atrocious or if someone is ill, we'll sit that mean solar day out. Otherwise, we're going to endeavour our hardest to get outside every twenty-four hour period!
Here are just a few benefits of spending fifteen minutes each day outside, according to Rebecca P. Cohen in 15 Minutes Outside(p. 19):
- Offers great health benefits through fun physical practice and sunshine
- Redirects children's energies, motivating them to play and explore constructively
- Creates a family stress-relief valve and a way to spend meaningful fourth dimension together
- Makes life easier for busy parents: play dates outside are hassle-gratis
- Provides an effortless educational activity in natural science and an appreciation for nature's life cycles
A few of my own additions to this list of benefits are: The boys Dear being outside, information technology wears them out (so they take proficient naps), time outside allows them to be creative, and information technology encourages gross motor development!
(If y'all need some creative ideas for how to spend your fourth dimension outdoors every month of the year, be sure to bank check out 15 Minutes Outside: 365 Ways to Get Out of the Business firm and Connect with Your Kids.
And before y'all think my intentions are completely pure…I take to tell you the forecast for the first week of Jan where we live looks glorious. Sunny and in the 50's every day. Had the forecast been blizzard-similar, I might be rethinking this whole challenge!
January 1st…here we come!
Who'south with us???
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