On today’s episode of Keeping Ashland Healthy, Dr. Ashley and the Boss explore ways families can enjoy the summer months and stay connected in Ashland County. Maintaining connections is vital for mental, physical, and social health, and Ashland offers many opportunities for the whole family. Learn more about staying connected at https://www.ashlandmhrb.org/blog/11-creative-ways-to-keep-kids-engaged-this-summer/ or by calling the Board at 419.281.3139.
(Record Date: June 24, 2025)
(Record Date: June 24, 2025)
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome. You're listening to the Keeping Ashland Healthy Podcast, a
podcast production of the Mental Health and Recovery Board of
Ashland County, Ohio. Thanks for joining us, and welcome back
to another episode of the Keeping Ashland Healthy Podcast. In
the studio as always, doctor Ashley Ackerban and the Boss.
Yeah yeah, boy, we are spoiled right now. It is
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like one hundred degrees outside, doctor Ashley. But in this
meat locker it's perfect.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You would not believe it's as hot as.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I mean, this is totally divorced from reality.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I'm good with it.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
We are shivering. It's so cold in our podcast studio audience.
And I hate to say that because some of you
probably don't have HVAC. I mean I saw somebody they
had a walk out on the sidewalk. They were cooking
stir fry. I mean it is hot out there, too hot.
So we are recording this on what is this the
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twenty fourth, So by the time this drops, it'll just
be a hopefully just a bad memory for the audience
that things got really hot in Ashing County. Right and
so speaking of hot, we have got a hot episode
for you. We are doing. Are you ready for summer break?
So summer has officially started. School is out for most
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young people and even some folks in the college age,
and we like to at least do one episode on
some of the important activities things to be considering as
a parent or as a young person this summer. Because Connection, Connection, Connection.
On the Keeping Nation Healthy podcast, we emphasize the important
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role of connection across the age spectrum. And I think
what we have today are we did a blog on this,
didn't we doctors? We did, Yes, eleven creative ways to
keep kids connected this summer.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I love that because when school ends, you know, a
lot of the socialization that kids get ends also, yes,
and also the structure that they have in their life
kind of goes away if you're not conscious of it
and kind of working to keep those things.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
So it's a great topic. And again I think for
those families where one or more of the of their
children are involved with maybe sports, that over the summer months,
I think that gives some structure to them. You're right,
but not all now kids are involved with sports, right Yeah,
So I mean for those but even the ones that
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involved with sports, it's got to be about more than
that over the summer months. So staying connected, staying involved.
So we're going to go through a list of eleven
different potentials. But we recognize this won't be a good
fit for every family, every situation, but feel free to
modify what we talk about in a way that makes
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sense for your family or your situation. And one of
the fun things about today's episode is Doctor Ashley and
I have had very different summer break experiences. So as
we go through these, we are going to hopefully share
a little bit about where we align and have similar
experiences and where perhaps it's vastly different you think. Yes, see,
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we'll find out. We did not compare notes in advanced
So the first one listed here is the family cook out.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I love a good cookout. I don't know about you.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I do too. In fact, we're getting ready for the
fourth Yes, so this is all about men grilling things, right,
So I know this is a for audience. I know
you know this probably isn't politically correct to say, but yeah, historically,
I don't know. In my family, this was like you know,
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and no female you know, and all like you couldn't
come within like certain feet of the grille, and certainly
we did not want to hear any suggestions about is
it done, does it need more fire? What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Right? There may be that may be a stereoty, but
it's pretty true in my life. Yeah, I try to
avoid that.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
It's a source of pride. I think. You know, dads
and sons they bond over the grilling. Right, we instruct
this is how you take care of a flara. Right,
But dad, wouldn't you use that top rack? You know?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
It's really funny because I got a grill last year
as a gift, Oh yeah, for my boyfriend, and I
tried grilling sausage. This is the first time I grow.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
A lot of fat comes out of those brats.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, apparently, and it's.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Not senator, forget it, doctor.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Actually I had a small fire and that's the last
time I grilled.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well, audience, don't let that dissuade you from trying to grill.
But whether it's a fire pit or bonfire, hot dogs, s'mores.
I hate smores, but some people love it. It's the
most disgusting concution ever. But yes, the whole idea of
food obviously is critical. It has been a part of
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human civilization for a long time. We gather around food
and the preparation of food. It's a wonderful way. Invite
whoever you know makes that experience more fun. So I
think that's something doctor Ashley. Hopefully some families can do
multiple times this summer.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Absolutely, we still do that with my parents, will have
a bonfire and do the marshmallows and the hot dogs
and stuff. So I think it's it's a nice tradition.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Awesome. Number two here is family movie Night. Now this
can get tricky. Yeah, people's tastes in movies and music
and other things vary. But I just challenged audience think
about maybe a family movie that everyone might enjoy. Yeah,
maybe a classic, A classic like I don't know what
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that is. It depends on you know. For me, a
classic is movies like Jaws.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Jaws, that's a classic.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yet right for a summer you know?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Me, have you ever seen the Man from Snowy River?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
The Man from snow sounds really sad, is.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Actually kind of sad. But I loved that.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I know the soundtrack and it's a sad sounds right,
so that it just made me feel like the movie
had to be sad too. But the idea of you know,
I've seen these very inexpensive projectors that you can if
you're at outside movie night, you can throw it up
on a sheet. They've got these portable screens. I've seen
people put on their barns or the side of their houses.
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So I think that adds another dimension. So if you
can do family movie night, use one of those projectors
and you know, invite a few people from the neighborhood,
that's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I like that. They also say empower them the kids.
Empower the kids by letting them choose a movie, yes,
from a list of parent approved picks, So giving them
some autonomy, which is which is a nice thing to parents.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
You take, you know, you you give them a list
that you've preapproved and then allow them to pick from
that list. But I think that makes a lot of sense. Yeah. Again,
you can add the food elements, some snack or some
other things when you're out there doing family movie night.
But I think that's another way, even though you'll have
to settle ground rules because I don't like it, doctor Ashley,
when somebody talks to me when I'm watching a movie.
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But I'm a little bit more flexible if it's a
movie I've seen twenty times. That's true.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, kids are kids are usually talking, are they?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
That's partly why I thought a classic, because that way,
if everybody's seen the movie before, it's you can be
a little bit more relaxed and talk through it and
people don't get to But if you've never seen it before,
I really don't like any time.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
How about do you like when people start quoting the movie.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
If they've seen it before, it's okay at first, and
then it gets annoying.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, if they do the whole thing, it's so much. Yeah,
I agree.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Now this next one, I've done this. I don't know
if doctor Ashley did it. Capturing fireflies now not capturing
to kill. It's a catch and release. But it gets dark.
There's certain times of the early evening when the fireflies
come out and we would run around the yard, get
our little mason jar with the holes in the top,
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and we would see how many we could collect, and
then of course let them go. But yeah, that's that's
a that's a tradition that I think a lot of failing.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
But yeah, we did that too. Now I don't like
the bugs as much, but they're pretty like out in
the fields and things. But yeah, I think it's a
fun thing to do with your kids.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah, it's funny you say that. I have been out
in the country before, like on someone's deck and looking
over a cornfield and sometimes when the fireflies are thick,
it really I mean, it's not the same as fire works,
but it's really impressive. If you've never seen a big
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open field with fireflies that are really active, it's it's more.
You wouldn't think it would be so interesting, but it
really is.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It's really pretty.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
It is so firefly capture number three, number four, boy,
today would be the day for that. Hit the pool yep.
Now we've got several pools public pools in Ashton County,
but there's a lot of private pools. And again, as
my father always used to say, just like with a boat,
it's good to know somebody that owns a pool or
a boat and not have one yourself.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
That's true. You don't have to do all the work.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
That's great. So we we tried to find somebody in
the neighborhood that had a pool and then you know,
take advantage of that.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
That's fun.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah. Now I did have those those you know, very
cheap plastic kiddie pools that you could get at the store.
Oh yeah that you know, they're like blue ones, like
a foot deep. Yeah, I'll never forget. I crammed one
of those in my camera and brought that home. Uh
and it did very little to hul me off. But
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I was desperate. It was college college years, doctor Ashley.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And I filled up it had it had octopuses and
little fishes, and I filled that thing up. It was
like a bright pink or something.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I mean, that's fun. That's a trend happening right now.
Get those little pools. Yeah, lounge out in your yard.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah. Some people think even if you put your feet
in that cools you down.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I think it does, yes, I think so.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
We've already been swimming a couple times this summer, and
I think it just you know, it's fun. It's like
physical activity, the sunshine. It just feels good, you know, yep,
good time.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Well, the pool obviously, you know, it doesn't have to
be an Olympic swimming pool, doesn't. It can be a
park any body of water, even though small kiddie pools
can come in handy, So I think flexibly parents hit
the pool though, but it gives an opportunity to not
only beat the heat, but also to interact and have
a good time. I can't recall ever going to the
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beach or in a pool without some kind of throwing
something around. Some people like the lounge. That's usually the
older folks like to just lounge. But if you're a kid,
it's a great way to burn energy. Parents, Oh, there's
nothing that burns energy like playing in water. So if
you want the kids to go to bed early, hit
the pool.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
My kid also loves the log roll.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
The logrel, the roll. I had that at Clay's Park. Yeah,
back in the day.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
We go to Baylor Beach. But yeah, he loves that
and run on all day.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, you know, you know, cautionary tale. Though. I saw
a kid get spun off and cracked his mouth right
on it, and I can.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
See how that happens. Yeah, I'm never actually pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
It's all fun and games till somebody lose a tooth.
We just we just hope it wasn't on permanent tooth.
So next up number five, indoor as opposed to outdoor,
and I think you can do either one indoor game
night game night.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I like that. So like board games and board games?
Kind of board games? Do you do you like.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah, so again, you got to think of the audience
that you have. But with lots of kids, I think
monopolies a standard. I don't like Monopoly.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
You don't okay, No, it takes so long for Monopoly,
you got to play for a whole day.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah, a risk.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Favors.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I'm trying to think of multiple people.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
There could be I like, yeah, and all the variations
of now right, and.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
You can get like six people or more so, whether
it's there's a variety of games to see. I've lost scrabbles.
There's the classics, but there's there's so many board games,
and I think they're making a comeback.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Actually, oh yeah, there's stores of just all kinds of games.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yes, I know I'm behind the times. Uh, it's probably
not puzzle season. I usually puzzle in the winter, but
puzzles are still not a game per se, although you
can turn it into one if you compete.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, that's true. I always liked Guess Who? Did you
ever play that?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
No, Guess the guest really is a band? Back in
the seventies.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I think, No, that's the who.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
No, the guess who?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
The guess Who's a band?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yes? Really who is? Also? Yeah, and indoor game, making
a laughing playing making memory. So your kids and I'll
tell you those those board games or card games or
anything of that sort. Yeah, they do have the potential
to make lasting, lifelong memories. I can remember some some
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fun times absolutely playing board games. Now this other one
I have noticed a lot is local events. I am
telling you, doctor Ashley, you so many people do things.
There are so many things scheduled every weekend throughout the summer.
So audience, it's not that hard to look online, especially
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you know with social media, it's it's easier than ever
I think, to see what's going on in your community. Yes,
there are no shortage of you know, whether it's car shows,
different parades, different I can't even library programs.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
There's Ashland is especially great. At the same there's a
lot going on in the community.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Ashland Main Street, so many events downtown. There's just always
something to do locally. So Ashen County has done wonderful
job having different things and that appeal to different groups
of people. So as doctor actually said, whether it's a library,
the park district, explorash and Croc Center, the concert series
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that we have going on, and again we've talked about
park districts quite a bit, but there's there's always a
different opportunity. So yes, look out for local events. There
are plenty of them going on. Shout out to our mayor.
Mayor Miller is very passionate about this, this idea of
community gathering in a positive way, and he has really
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tried to facilitate a lot of different options since he's
become the mayor. And appreciate him absolutely. And then this
is a reverse of something we talked about before. Outdoor
game night or game day. Yeah, and this come on,
you played Hide and go Seek?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Hide and go Seek? Oh yeah, definitely, that was a
good one. They suggest lawn darts like glow in the
dark lawn darts. That sounds way.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
You can doing that in the day or the night.
We didn't. We weren't allowed to do it in the
dark because I could get a little reckless with throwing
those darts. Now again, here's the audience. You know what
I'm talking about if you're over a certain age. The
lawn darts I grew up, these were deadly missiles, so
that they were the tips were solid metal. They would
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go through a skull. I mean if you yeah, if.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
You straight through an eyeball.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Absolutely, these were deadly things. Now. I don't know they're
like safety darts or something now, but yeah, I so
make sure you know you're not going with og lawn
darts because those things should come with a car. And
then there was no cautionary statement. Did I hear, take
these deadly pieces of metal and just start chucking them.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I'm so glad you survived your child.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
It was touch and go. I tell you so. Lawn
darts if you get the right guy. And so many
pickleball crazy going to pickleball.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
There's tournaments course, well, I want to play pickleball.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Ashlyn is pickball crazy. Audience. You may know that I'm
involved with Ashley Noon Lines and we had a speaker
talked to us about pickleball here at NASH and it
was very educational. He went through all the different types
of rackets. It's like serious, doctor Ashley. It's you can
get like graphite, like super expensive, hundreds of dollars on rackets.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I love it. Yeah, it's the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I mean, I thought it was badminton, but it's kind
of like that, but more it's it's pretty it's pretty wide.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Between badminton and tennis.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Kind of right, yeah, And I feel like it's something
that older folks that maybe aren't too athletically inclined said,
this is for us, right.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, that's why I want to.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
But it's all I mean, so it seems fun. Yep.
I think kids, family members, I do like the kind
of group uh sporting opportunities, so you get different teams
and you can rotate and again, volleyball is still always
a great you know, you can do four and four,
three and three whatever. Volleyball is just badminton again and
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just pick a ball. Plenty of opportunities for outdoor games.
As kids, we we didn't even like I said, hide
and go seeks example, But you don't even have to
have a lot of equipment to come up with an
outdoor game that young people can play, right. Yes. Another
one that hopefully audience you'll do multiple times this summer
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is the traditional picnic.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I love a good picnic.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You do, Do you have a basket? You'll be better?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yes, That's something we always did with my grandma, and
now I like to do that with my family too,
you know.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I mean there's a whole prep thing, right, so you
gotta get your cool now.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Called snackle boxes. Have you seen that?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Is that it's like.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
What you're just making promise Walmart Target you can.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Find them a snackle box.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah, and then it has compartments for different snacks you
take on your sounds ridiculous. I love it. This is
I'm on board for the snackle boxing.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Does it require ice?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
No, Well, I guess maybe if you had some shrimp
in there or something, But this is.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Not for that. That's a random food shrimp shrimp cocktail
that requires I say, everything else is fine, well the picnic.
I like the idea of the food because you can
be really playful that even sell them like plastic ware
and glasses and all that stuff that are not glass.
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But I think the other part of the picnic that
I love is the location. Yeah. So yes, Ashland has
a wonderful location and part of the picnic it's not
just the food and the company, but it's it's where
you do the picnic. Right, So you want to pick
something that has a pleasant view. So water elements, you know,
we've got several of those in time, you know, the
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different parks that we have. Maybe it's a wood scene,
it's the sun or gardens. So think not only about
the picnic, but it's good and the food, but where where?
And then I suppose it matters who you do the
picnic with.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Think that's important to Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Oh and what about a picnic blanket?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Maybe? Yeah, you could do on the traditional check or
like pavilions are always nice to for a little picnic,
you know.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Or the actual table. Yeah, so there's there's some varieties
on you know where. Yeah, so the picnics. And that
was number eight. Number nine reading a book together. Now
you know, I'm a big reader. So this was something
mom and I did when I was younger. She did
this with all the kids, all the my two sisters
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and brother. It didn't take as much with them. But
this idea of you get a list of books, and
a lot of times schools will give out right some
or less so that that might kill, you know, a
couple of birds with one stone if you if you
choose that. But the idea is everybody gets a chance
to read either a paragraph or a chapter however you
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want to do that. But I can't emphasize enough. Parents
allowing opportunities for your sons and daughters to read out
loud in a friendly, relaxed it'll help build their skills
in their confidence in there. But reading is really really
helpful for learning.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yeah, and it's really connective when you're reading a story
together and talking about it.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Definitely experience it differently and then you and I think
it's fun to start, you know, as you get more
and more comfortable with reading, your voice inflections and the
sound effects and all that, and it really becomes a
really fun family or small group activity when you do
it aloud like that.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
And you know you've mentioned choose your own adventure stories
too before. That's really fun to do too with your
kids and have them kind of direct the story.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yep, and just and talk through It's like what decisions
should we make?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Yeah, it's really fun.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Now this next one. I did a little of this,
but I never had the right equipment, so I got discouraged.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Starcazing It seems like it would be great. I've never
done that either.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Well, you know there's things on your phone like, well,
tell you like what the sky. Yes, it'll like, you know,
because it knows your location obviously, because you know the
phones are always watching and listening to us. But it
will throw up like what you're seeing in the sky
on your phone and like point everything out so you
don't have to cause people would always, you know what,
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they'd always say, there's the Big Dipper. Yeah, and I'm like,
you could point to any random collection of four to
eight stars and say that. I'm like, is that really
the Big Dipper? I mean that's true. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I really like that idea. So this has been helpful
for me too, because we might try that.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Well, did you know about that there's this warn Rup
Observatory in Belleville.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Well, apparently you can visit there first Saturday of the month.
It opens to the public, and they've got a very
very big telescope there called Big Blue. It's a thirty
six inch diameter reflecting telescope. I'm pretty sure that'll make
the moon look much closer.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, that sounds cool.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Well, as you know, I walk early in the morning,
so I do get to see the moon in all
its different phases, and that is fun. I mean sometimes
it really is amazing to me how much even with
the naked eye, that you can make out. I can
only imagine with some of these bigger telescopes the level
of detail that you can see.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Did you see the strawberry moon.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I think it was rhubarb. I saw the ruhbarb moon,
but I miss strawberry. Okay, cool, No, I no I
heard about it. I think I did.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah, they do have a lot of different names for
some of these moons. Then there's a reason behind it all.
I just don't always remember. Yes, I did see something
that was called a strawberry moon.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Very cool.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
And then last, but not least, number eleven. We've talked
about this before. Try out the trails.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yes, the trails.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
We have got plenty of hiking trails in Ashland County.
Doing this again. You can incorporate the picnic into this maybe, Yeah,
you hike for a little bit, you do the picnic
and then you hike out take your bike maybe, or
you can buke it.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
But there are just so many trails. I think in
the article, the blog article, we've been hyperlinked to a
map that listed them all. So, uh, if folks want
to see the blog, they just go on our Facebook page.
Is that the easiest way, doctor Ashley? Yeah? Blog?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Yeah, facebook page, or you can go to Ashland MHRB
dot org. You click resources and then the blog is
under there. So that's the most recent one.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Yeah, well, I'll tell you. You know, we understand that
screens in schedules and things like that can separate us.
I think there's an opportunity to connect, and it's more
important ever that we do that. Let's not let our screens.
You know my pet peeve about going to restaurants and
everybody's on their screen. It's like put the screens that.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Some other ways to actually purposefully connect with your family
and the people you love. It's good for your mental health,
it is, and it makes us more resilient in life.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
We need to discipline the amount of time we spend
with our screens. It's just a healthy thing to do. Uh.
You know, I'm not anti screens. I just it's a
screens and moderation, screens and proportion these other things. We
just can't give them up. They're too important to give up.
So hopefully, audience, you can reflect back on some of
these eleven different things that we talked about to stay connected,
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help help your young people in your life or yourselves
stay connected this summer. Yes, have fun, have fun with it. Yeah,
so that's the important part. So until we talking next time,
Doctor Ashley, stay cool and get that get that kiddie pool.
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Welcome. You're listening to the Keeping Ashland Healthy Podcast, a
podcast production of the Mental Health and Recovery Board of
Ashland County, Ohio. Thanks for joining us, and welcome back
to another episode of the Keeping Ashland Healthy Podcast. In
the studio as always, doctor Ashley Ackerban and the Boss.
Yeah yeah, boy, we are spoiled right now. It is
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like one hundred degrees outside, doctor Ashley. But in this
meat locker it's perfect.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You would not believe it's as hot as.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I mean, this is totally divorced from reality.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I'm good with it.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
We are shivering. It's so cold in our podcast studio audience.
And I hate to say that because some of you
probably don't have HVAC. I mean I saw somebody they
had a walk out on the sidewalk. They were cooking
stir fry. I mean it is hot out there, too hot.
So we are recording this on what is this the
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twenty fourth, So by the time this drops, it'll just
be a hopefully just a bad memory for the audience
that things got really hot in Ashing County. Right and
so speaking of hot, we have got a hot episode
for you. We are doing. Are you ready for summer break?
So summer has officially started. School is out for most
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young people and even some folks in the college age,
and we like to at least do one episode on
some of the important activities things to be considering as
a parent or as a young person this summer. Because Connection, Connection, Connection.
On the Keeping Nation Healthy podcast, we emphasize the important
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role of connection across the age spectrum. And I think
what we have today are we did a blog on this,
didn't we doctors? We did, Yes, eleven creative ways to
keep kids connected this summer.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I love that because when school ends, you know, a
lot of the socialization that kids get ends also, yes,
and also the structure that they have in their life
kind of goes away if you're not conscious of it
and kind of working to keep those things.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
So it's a great topic. And again I think for
those families where one or more of the of their
children are involved with maybe sports, that over the summer months,
I think that gives some structure to them. You're right,
but not all now kids are involved with sports, right Yeah,
So I mean for those but even the ones that
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involved with sports, it's got to be about more than
that over the summer months. So staying connected, staying involved.
So we're going to go through a list of eleven
different potentials. But we recognize this won't be a good
fit for every family, every situation, but feel free to
modify what we talk about in a way that makes
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sense for your family or your situation. And one of
the fun things about today's episode is Doctor Ashley and
I have had very different summer break experiences. So as
we go through these, we are going to hopefully share
a little bit about where we align and have similar
experiences and where perhaps it's vastly different you think. Yes, see,
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we'll find out. We did not compare notes in advanced
So the first one listed here is the family cook out.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I love a good cookout. I don't know about you.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I do too. In fact, we're getting ready for the
fourth Yes, so this is all about men grilling things, right,
So I know this is a for audience. I know
you know this probably isn't politically correct to say, but yeah, historically,
I don't know. In my family, this was like you know,
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and no female you know, and all like you couldn't
come within like certain feet of the grille, and certainly
we did not want to hear any suggestions about is
it done, does it need more fire? What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Right? There may be that may be a stereoty, but
it's pretty true in my life. Yeah, I try to
avoid that.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
It's a source of pride. I think. You know, dads
and sons they bond over the grilling. Right, we instruct
this is how you take care of a flara. Right,
But dad, wouldn't you use that top rack? You know?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
It's really funny because I got a grill last year
as a gift, Oh yeah, for my boyfriend, and I
tried grilling sausage. This is the first time I grow.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
A lot of fat comes out of those brats.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, apparently, and it's.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Not senator, forget it, doctor.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Actually I had a small fire and that's the last
time I grilled.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well, audience, don't let that dissuade you from trying to grill.
But whether it's a fire pit or bonfire, hot dogs, s'mores.
I hate smores, but some people love it. It's the
most disgusting concution ever. But yes, the whole idea of
food obviously is critical. It has been a part of
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human civilization for a long time. We gather around food
and the preparation of food. It's a wonderful way. Invite
whoever you know makes that experience more fun. So I
think that's something doctor Ashley. Hopefully some families can do
multiple times this summer.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Absolutely, we still do that with my parents, will have
a bonfire and do the marshmallows and the hot dogs
and stuff. So I think it's it's a nice tradition.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Awesome. Number two here is family movie Night. Now this
can get tricky. Yeah, people's tastes in movies and music
and other things vary. But I just challenged audience think
about maybe a family movie that everyone might enjoy. Yeah,
maybe a classic, A classic like I don't know what
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that is. It depends on you know. For me, a
classic is movies like Jaws.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Jaws, that's a classic.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yet right for a summer you know?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Me, have you ever seen the Man from Snowy River?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
The Man from snow sounds really sad, is.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Actually kind of sad. But I loved that.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I know the soundtrack and it's a sad sounds right,
so that it just made me feel like the movie
had to be sad too. But the idea of you know,
I've seen these very inexpensive projectors that you can if
you're at outside movie night, you can throw it up
on a sheet. They've got these portable screens. I've seen
people put on their barns or the side of their houses.
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So I think that adds another dimension. So if you
can do family movie night, use one of those projectors
and you know, invite a few people from the neighborhood,
that's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I like that. They also say empower them the kids.
Empower the kids by letting them choose a movie, yes,
from a list of parent approved picks, So giving them
some autonomy, which is which is a nice thing to parents.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
You take, you know, you you give them a list
that you've preapproved and then allow them to pick from
that list. But I think that makes a lot of sense. Yeah. Again,
you can add the food elements, some snack or some
other things when you're out there doing family movie night.
But I think that's another way, even though you'll have
to settle ground rules because I don't like it, doctor Ashley,
when somebody talks to me when I'm watching a movie.
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But I'm a little bit more flexible if it's a
movie I've seen twenty times. That's true.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, kids are kids are usually talking, are they?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
That's partly why I thought a classic, because that way,
if everybody's seen the movie before, it's you can be
a little bit more relaxed and talk through it and
people don't get to But if you've never seen it before,
I really don't like any time.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
How about do you like when people start quoting the movie.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
If they've seen it before, it's okay at first, and
then it gets annoying.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, if they do the whole thing, it's so much. Yeah,
I agree.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Now this next one, I've done this. I don't know
if doctor Ashley did it. Capturing fireflies now not capturing
to kill. It's a catch and release. But it gets dark.
There's certain times of the early evening when the fireflies
come out and we would run around the yard, get
our little mason jar with the holes in the top,
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and we would see how many we could collect, and
then of course let them go. But yeah, that's that's
a that's a tradition that I think a lot of failing.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
But yeah, we did that too. Now I don't like
the bugs as much, but they're pretty like out in
the fields and things. But yeah, I think it's a
fun thing to do with your kids.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah, it's funny you say that. I have been out
in the country before, like on someone's deck and looking
over a cornfield and sometimes when the fireflies are thick,
it really I mean, it's not the same as fire works,
but it's really impressive. If you've never seen a big
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open field with fireflies that are really active, it's it's more.
You wouldn't think it would be so interesting, but it
really is.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It's really pretty.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
It is so firefly capture number three, number four, boy,
today would be the day for that. Hit the pool yep.
Now we've got several pools public pools in Ashton County,
but there's a lot of private pools. And again, as
my father always used to say, just like with a boat,
it's good to know somebody that owns a pool or
a boat and not have one yourself.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
That's true. You don't have to do all the work.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
That's great. So we we tried to find somebody in
the neighborhood that had a pool and then you know,
take advantage of that.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
That's fun.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah. Now I did have those those you know, very
cheap plastic kiddie pools that you could get at the store.
Oh yeah that you know, they're like blue ones, like
a foot deep. Yeah, I'll never forget. I crammed one
of those in my camera and brought that home. Uh
and it did very little to hul me off. But
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I was desperate. It was college college years, doctor Ashley.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And I filled up it had it had octopuses and
little fishes, and I filled that thing up. It was
like a bright pink or something.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I mean, that's fun. That's a trend happening right now.
Get those little pools. Yeah, lounge out in your yard.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah. Some people think even if you put your feet
in that cools you down.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I think it does, yes, I think so.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
We've already been swimming a couple times this summer, and
I think it just you know, it's fun. It's like
physical activity, the sunshine. It just feels good, you know, yep,
good time.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Well, the pool obviously, you know, it doesn't have to
be an Olympic swimming pool, doesn't. It can be a
park any body of water, even though small kiddie pools
can come in handy, So I think flexibly parents hit
the pool though, but it gives an opportunity to not
only beat the heat, but also to interact and have
a good time. I can't recall ever going to the
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beach or in a pool without some kind of throwing
something around. Some people like the lounge. That's usually the
older folks like to just lounge. But if you're a kid,
it's a great way to burn energy. Parents, Oh, there's
nothing that burns energy like playing in water. So if
you want the kids to go to bed early, hit
the pool.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
My kid also loves the log roll.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
The logrel, the roll. I had that at Clay's Park. Yeah,
back in the day.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
We go to Baylor Beach. But yeah, he loves that
and run on all day.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, you know, you know, cautionary tale. Though. I saw
a kid get spun off and cracked his mouth right
on it, and I can.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
See how that happens. Yeah, I'm never actually pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
It's all fun and games till somebody lose a tooth.
We just we just hope it wasn't on permanent tooth.
So next up number five, indoor as opposed to outdoor,
and I think you can do either one indoor game
night game night.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I like that. So like board games and board games?
Kind of board games? Do you do you like.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah, so again, you got to think of the audience
that you have. But with lots of kids, I think
monopolies a standard. I don't like Monopoly.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
You don't okay, No, it takes so long for Monopoly,
you got to play for a whole day.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah, a risk.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Favors.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I'm trying to think of multiple people.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
There could be I like, yeah, and all the variations
of now right, and.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
You can get like six people or more so, whether
it's there's a variety of games to see. I've lost scrabbles.
There's the classics, but there's there's so many board games,
and I think they're making a comeback.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Actually, oh yeah, there's stores of just all kinds of games.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yes, I know I'm behind the times. Uh, it's probably
not puzzle season. I usually puzzle in the winter, but
puzzles are still not a game per se, although you
can turn it into one if you compete.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, that's true. I always liked Guess Who? Did you
ever play that?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
No, Guess the guest really is a band? Back in
the seventies.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I think, No, that's the who.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
No, the guess who?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
The guess Who's a band?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yes? Really who is? Also? Yeah, and indoor game, making
a laughing playing making memory. So your kids and I'll
tell you those those board games or card games or
anything of that sort. Yeah, they do have the potential
to make lasting, lifelong memories. I can remember some some
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fun times absolutely playing board games. Now this other one
I have noticed a lot is local events. I am
telling you, doctor Ashley, you so many people do things.
There are so many things scheduled every weekend throughout the summer.
So audience, it's not that hard to look online, especially
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you know with social media, it's it's easier than ever
I think, to see what's going on in your community. Yes,
there are no shortage of you know, whether it's car shows,
different parades, different I can't even library programs.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
There's Ashland is especially great. At the same there's a
lot going on in the community.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Ashland Main Street, so many events downtown. There's just always
something to do locally. So Ashen County has done wonderful
job having different things and that appeal to different groups
of people. So as doctor actually said, whether it's a library,
the park district, explorash and Croc Center, the concert series
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that we have going on, and again we've talked about
park districts quite a bit, but there's there's always a
different opportunity. So yes, look out for local events. There
are plenty of them going on. Shout out to our mayor.
Mayor Miller is very passionate about this, this idea of
community gathering in a positive way, and he has really
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tried to facilitate a lot of different options since he's
become the mayor. And appreciate him absolutely. And then this
is a reverse of something we talked about before. Outdoor
game night or game day. Yeah, and this come on,
you played Hide and go Seek?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Hide and go Seek? Oh yeah, definitely, that was a
good one. They suggest lawn darts like glow in the
dark lawn darts. That sounds way.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
You can doing that in the day or the night.
We didn't. We weren't allowed to do it in the
dark because I could get a little reckless with throwing
those darts. Now again, here's the audience. You know what
I'm talking about if you're over a certain age. The
lawn darts I grew up, these were deadly missiles, so
that they were the tips were solid metal. They would
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go through a skull. I mean if you yeah, if.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
You straight through an eyeball.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Absolutely, these were deadly things. Now. I don't know they're
like safety darts or something now, but yeah, I so
make sure you know you're not going with og lawn
darts because those things should come with a car. And
then there was no cautionary statement. Did I hear, take
these deadly pieces of metal and just start chucking them.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I'm so glad you survived your child.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
It was touch and go. I tell you so. Lawn
darts if you get the right guy. And so many
pickleball crazy going to pickleball.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
There's tournaments course, well, I want to play pickleball.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Ashlyn is pickball crazy. Audience. You may know that I'm
involved with Ashley Noon Lines and we had a speaker
talked to us about pickleball here at NASH and it
was very educational. He went through all the different types
of rackets. It's like serious, doctor Ashley. It's you can
get like graphite, like super expensive, hundreds of dollars on rackets.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I love it. Yeah, it's the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I mean, I thought it was badminton, but it's kind
of like that, but more it's it's pretty it's pretty wide.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Between badminton and tennis.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Kind of right, yeah, And I feel like it's something
that older folks that maybe aren't too athletically inclined said,
this is for us, right.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, that's why I want to.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
But it's all I mean, so it seems fun. Yep.
I think kids, family members, I do like the kind
of group uh sporting opportunities, so you get different teams
and you can rotate and again, volleyball is still always
a great you know, you can do four and four,
three and three whatever. Volleyball is just badminton again and
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just pick a ball. Plenty of opportunities for outdoor games.
As kids, we we didn't even like I said, hide
and go seeks example, But you don't even have to
have a lot of equipment to come up with an
outdoor game that young people can play, right. Yes. Another
one that hopefully audience you'll do multiple times this summer
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is the traditional picnic.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I love a good picnic.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You do, Do you have a basket? You'll be better?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yes, That's something we always did with my grandma, and
now I like to do that with my family too,
you know.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I mean there's a whole prep thing, right, so you
gotta get your cool now.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Called snackle boxes. Have you seen that?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Is that it's like.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
What you're just making promise Walmart Target you can.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Find them a snackle box.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah, and then it has compartments for different snacks you
take on your sounds ridiculous. I love it. This is
I'm on board for the snackle boxing.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Does it require ice?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
No, Well, I guess maybe if you had some shrimp
in there or something, But this is.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Not for that. That's a random food shrimp shrimp cocktail
that requires I say, everything else is fine, well the picnic.
I like the idea of the food because you can
be really playful that even sell them like plastic ware
and glasses and all that stuff that are not glass.
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But I think the other part of the picnic that
I love is the location. Yeah. So yes, Ashland has
a wonderful location and part of the picnic it's not
just the food and the company, but it's it's where
you do the picnic. Right, So you want to pick
something that has a pleasant view. So water elements, you know,
we've got several of those in time, you know, the
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different parks that we have. Maybe it's a wood scene,
it's the sun or gardens. So think not only about
the picnic, but it's good and the food, but where where?
And then I suppose it matters who you do the
picnic with.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Think that's important to Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Oh and what about a picnic blanket?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Maybe? Yeah, you could do on the traditional check or
like pavilions are always nice to for a little picnic,
you know.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Or the actual table. Yeah, so there's there's some varieties
on you know where. Yeah, so the picnics. And that
was number eight. Number nine reading a book together. Now
you know, I'm a big reader. So this was something
mom and I did when I was younger. She did
this with all the kids, all the my two sisters
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and brother. It didn't take as much with them. But
this idea of you get a list of books, and
a lot of times schools will give out right some
or less so that that might kill, you know, a
couple of birds with one stone if you if you
choose that. But the idea is everybody gets a chance
to read either a paragraph or a chapter however you
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want to do that. But I can't emphasize enough. Parents
allowing opportunities for your sons and daughters to read out
loud in a friendly, relaxed it'll help build their skills
in their confidence in there. But reading is really really
helpful for learning.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yeah, and it's really connective when you're reading a story
together and talking about it.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Definitely experience it differently and then you and I think
it's fun to start, you know, as you get more
and more comfortable with reading, your voice inflections and the
sound effects and all that, and it really becomes a
really fun family or small group activity when you do
it aloud like that.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
And you know you've mentioned choose your own adventure stories
too before. That's really fun to do too with your
kids and have them kind of direct the story.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yep, and just and talk through It's like what decisions
should we make?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Yeah, it's really fun.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Now this next one. I did a little of this,
but I never had the right equipment, so I got discouraged.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Starcazing It seems like it would be great. I've never
done that either.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Well, you know there's things on your phone like, well,
tell you like what the sky. Yes, it'll like, you know,
because it knows your location obviously, because you know the
phones are always watching and listening to us. But it
will throw up like what you're seeing in the sky
on your phone and like point everything out so you
don't have to cause people would always, you know what,
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they'd always say, there's the Big Dipper. Yeah, and I'm like,
you could point to any random collection of four to
eight stars and say that. I'm like, is that really
the Big Dipper? I mean that's true. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I really like that idea. So this has been helpful
for me too, because we might try that.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Well, did you know about that there's this warn Rup
Observatory in Belleville.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Well, apparently you can visit there first Saturday of the month.
It opens to the public, and they've got a very
very big telescope there called Big Blue. It's a thirty
six inch diameter reflecting telescope. I'm pretty sure that'll make
the moon look much closer.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, that sounds cool.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Well, as you know, I walk early in the morning,
so I do get to see the moon in all
its different phases, and that is fun. I mean sometimes
it really is amazing to me how much even with
the naked eye, that you can make out. I can
only imagine with some of these bigger telescopes the level
of detail that you can see.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Did you see the strawberry moon.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I think it was rhubarb. I saw the ruhbarb moon,
but I miss strawberry. Okay, cool, No, I no I
heard about it. I think I did.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah, they do have a lot of different names for
some of these moons. Then there's a reason behind it all.
I just don't always remember. Yes, I did see something
that was called a strawberry moon.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Very cool.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
And then last, but not least, number eleven. We've talked
about this before. Try out the trails.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yes, the trails.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
We have got plenty of hiking trails in Ashland County.
Doing this again. You can incorporate the picnic into this maybe, Yeah,
you hike for a little bit, you do the picnic
and then you hike out take your bike maybe, or
you can buke it.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
But there are just so many trails. I think in
the article, the blog article, we've been hyperlinked to a
map that listed them all. So, uh, if folks want
to see the blog, they just go on our Facebook page.
Is that the easiest way, doctor Ashley? Yeah? Blog?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Yeah, facebook page, or you can go to Ashland MHRB
dot org. You click resources and then the blog is
under there. So that's the most recent one.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Yeah, well, I'll tell you. You know, we understand that
screens in schedules and things like that can separate us.
I think there's an opportunity to connect, and it's more
important ever that we do that. Let's not let our screens.
You know my pet peeve about going to restaurants and
everybody's on their screen. It's like put the screens that.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Some other ways to actually purposefully connect with your family
and the people you love. It's good for your mental health,
it is, and it makes us more resilient in life.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
We need to discipline the amount of time we spend
with our screens. It's just a healthy thing to do. Uh.
You know, I'm not anti screens. I just it's a
screens and moderation, screens and proportion these other things. We
just can't give them up. They're too important to give up.
So hopefully, audience, you can reflect back on some of
these eleven different things that we talked about to stay connected,
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help help your young people in your life or yourselves
stay connected this summer. Yes, have fun, have fun with it. Yeah,
so that's the important part. So until we talking next time,
Doctor Ashley, stay cool and get that get that kiddie pool.
Thank you for listening to another episode of the Keeping
an Ashlin Healthy podcast. The podcast is a production of
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the Mental Health the Recovery Board of Ashland County, Ohio.
You can reach the board by calling four one nine
two eight one three one three nine. Please remember that
the board funds a local twenty four to seven crisis
line through Applese Community Mental Health Center. It can be
reached by calling four one nine two eight nine sixty
one one one. That's four one nine two eight nine
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sixty one one one. Until next time, Please join us
in keeping Ashland Healthy.
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