1KHO 414: Kids Need More Unsupervised Time | Linda Flanagan, Take Back the Game

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In her second appearance on The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, Linda Flanagan, author of Take Back the Game, dives into the critical topic of giving kids the freedom they need to grow. Linda and Ginny Yurich discuss how the pressures of modern youth sports and adult-driven parenting can unintentionally rob children of the unsupervised time essential for creativity, confidence, and resilience. They explore how this over-structured lifestyle impacts not only kids but entire families, often presenting adulthood as a joyless grind instead of a vibrant destination. This thought-provoking episode invites parents to step back and reconsider what truly matters. With actionable advice, Linda highlights the benefits of unsupervised play, reconnecting with nature, and cultivating family moments that aren’t dictated by sports schedules. A must-listen for those looking to embrace a freer, more balanced approach to childhood and parenting. ** Get your copy of Take Back the Game here Learn more about Linda here Get information about Linda's new documentary coming soon here ** Download your free 1000 Hours Outside tracker here >> https://www.1000hoursoutside.com/trackers Find everything you need to kick off your 1000 Hours Outside Journey here >> https://www.1000hoursoutside.com/blog/allthethings Order of copy of Ginny's newest book, Until the Streetlights Come On here >> https://amzn.to/3RXjBlN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. I am so excited because Linda Flanagan, author of Take Back the Game, is here again. Welcome.
0:12.2	Thank you for having me, Ginny. I'm glad to be here. This book changed my perspective on a lot of things. I learned so much. And you know, you read books and they impact you
0:21.9	and then you read some books and they stick with you. And that's what your book did for me. And we're not
0:26.3	even a huge sports family at the time that I read your book. We were just sort of dabbling in it.
0:31.5	And even still, even still, it was just so eye-opening about sort of the game of college and what's going on.
0:40.1	Even with parenting, it's sort of like become this high pressure, high stress, prove yourself type thing with the parenting.
0:47.5	And so your book has stuck with me the whole time, even this whole thought of like, how are we presenting adulthood?
0:53.6	I think about that
0:54.3	all the time. So just a wonderful, wonderful book. It's called Take Back the Game, How Money and
0:58.7	Mania are ruining kids sports and why it matters. I would love for you to just give a little bit
1:03.4	of a background. You are a coach, you're a runner. What got you interested in this topic to begin with?
1:09.4	Sure. Well, okay, so I've always been an athlete.
1:12.6	I think of myself more as a runner than an athlete, but growing up, I played a lot of sports,
1:16.7	tennis, softball, and have remained fit and exercise my entire life.
1:23.0	So it's been, you know, central kind of to who I am to my identity.
1:27.2	At one point, I was asked to,
1:29.3	when my youngest was in kindergarten, I believe, if I was interested in coaching at a high school
1:34.3	cross-country team. And I said, sure, you know, I hadn't never coached before, but I'd had a lot
1:41.1	of experience organizing workouts and things. So I decided to do that. At the same time,
1:46.1	I had three kids. So I was entering the observing the way the world of kids sports had changed,
1:53.5	you know, since I had been through it many years before for both perspective as a coach and as a
1:58.8	parent. And I was really bothered by what I saw because I felt
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