1KHO 840: Childhood is Wrecked By Speed | Grace Pouch, Savoring Childhood

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Welcome to The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. My name is Ginny Yurich, I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside, and I just read a book called Savoring Childhood. This is about slowing down, slowing down gratification, slowing down our schedules, slowing down media, and single tasking instead of multitasking, just slowing down this period of growing up, and it's a wonderfully beautiful book just came out this year. Author Grace Pouch is here. Welcome, Grace.

**Grace Pouch** (1:30)
Thank you, Ginny. This is a great honor because I follow you very closely, and I help produce a podcast, but you're like prolific.
You have like 700 and something episodes, which is absolutely amazing. That's pretty rare.

**Ginny Yurich** (1:48)
There are a lot of episodes. All right, we're just trying to figure out our entrepreneurship, and there's a lot of people to talk to you. That's the wild thing. I mean, at this point, we're even still sometimes turning people away because I run out of space. I'm like, at the very beginning, people think, and even myself, like, well, at some point, I will have exhausted everybody interesting to talk to. And you're like, no, there's just so many interesting people to talk to. So also, besides this book that you have that came out this year called Savoring Childhood, Practical Wisdom for Slowing Down, obviously very important to read. You also have a sub stack so people can go to Grace Pouch. I'll put the link in the show notes.substack.com or it's GrapplePie. And then you're on Instagram as well. So I'll put all of those notes, all of those links in the show notes.
I was up if you would tell us how you became interested in a slower childhood to begin with. You talk about having a background at the Theological Seminary, Erskine.
I don't know, I'm Erskine. I'm like, I'm going to pronounce it all wrong. And you're a Content Manager at, here we go, Renovari.

**Grace Pouch** (2:55)
Yep.

**Ginny Yurich** (2:56)
Yes.

**Grace Pouch** (2:56)
You got it.

**Ginny Yurich** (2:57)
Yeah. Curate and produce resources for spiritual renewal. So it's interesting to tie that into slow childhoods.

**Grace Pouch** (3:05)
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think there's kind of already a sense for all of us, and I'm sure this is true of every generation of things that have accelerated from the way they were when we grew up. And to an extent, that's normal, and it's just part of the progression from one generation to the next. But we all know there are things about the past 20, 15, even 10 years that have been quite unique in all of history as far as the accelerated pace of life and technology.
And yeah, as a mom and as a minister, I noticed that those things were actually crowding out key experiences of childhood, where really important stuff is being formed. So my spiritual formation background is all about, you know, what all the things about us that don't come preset, they get shaped, they get formed, they get built in and grown. And so those things take some slow time, they take certain conditions, they take certain relationships. And when things are moving too fast, they get crowded out.
So I think it all kind of came to a head to me, it came to a head for me during COVID, which was awful. But I think some of us feel this way, there's like a little nostalgia for the forced pause that it brought.

**Ginny Yurich** (4:32)
Yeah, I know, we started milking a goat. I'm like, people will be like, do you still milk the goat? And I'm like, no, because in order to milk the goat, you have to be home every single day. I'm like, so that didn't work. I mean, it worked for a while, longer than two weeks to slow the curve. But I mean, yeah, there were definitely some different things that you can do and there's nothing else going on.