{"id":261143,"date":"2026-01-01T05:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/261143\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T05:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:48:14","slug":"spending-time-outside-with-my-kids-is-the-one-thing-that-i-pledge-to-do-more-often-in-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/261143\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Spending time outside with my kids is the one thing that I pledge to do more often in the new year\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThere is nothing like the healing power of nature, and getting outdoors is one of the gentlest ways to care for ourselves and our families\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Georgina Coleman Driver and her daughters exploring the Blackstairs Mountain range at sunset\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bddf2e22-4bc7-4b7a-8d8f-3f1a5d04c7fb.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Georgina Coleman Driver and her daughters exploring the Blackstairs Mountain range at sunset<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When I was recovering from the darkness of perinatal depression in early 2017, one of the biggest pieces of the puzzle for my mental health was getting out and about in nature with my baby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Even on those dark, cold, dreary and sometimes endless days of January when I didn\u2019t want to leave the house, I made myself get outdoors. I wrapped my newborn up like the Michelin Man and headed out to a park, or went for a walk along the sea, or got lost in some local woodland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is nothing like the healing power of nature, and getting outdoors is one of the gentlest ways&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,84521,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-261143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-new-year","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115818273574684975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}