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#87: How to Delegate Without Getting Pushback

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If you’ve ever tried to delegate something at home — only to get attitude, half-done results, or end up redoing it yourself — this episode is for you.

Because here’s the truth most busy moms don’t hear often enough:
You’re not bad at delegating. And your family isn’t intentionally making things harder.

Most delegation fails for one simple reason — confusion.

Delegation Isn’t an Office Skill — It’s a Family Skill
Many moms carry the mental load without even realizing it. You know what needs to be done, when it needs to happen, and what “done” should look like — but none of that lives outside your head.

So when you ask for help and it doesn’t meet your expectations, frustration builds fast. Not because someone doesn’t care — but because the rules were invisible.

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#53 Parenting Challenges Solved: An Insight into the SNAP Program’s Success – with Ron Swan and Debbie St-Martin

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In this episode, Dianne discusses with guest speakers Ron Swan and Debbie St-Martin from Centre Famille, Home to the SNAP Program, about overcoming parenting challenges, managing the behavior of children, effectively communicating within a family, and establishing organization and structure at home.
They explore the importance of empathy and understanding in parenting and the significance of teaching kids essential life skills. Featuring real-world examples and results from their SNAP Program, they emphasize the power of positive reinforcement, the need for consistency in parenting styles, and the indispensability of creative thinking.
Further, they examine how different parenting styles can work together for the benefit of children and touch upon maintaining a united front in front of children, compartmentalizing different aspects of life, and the value of prioritizing what matters most in family life.

Lead together, Raise Responsible Kids

#31: 9 Ways To Get Your Kids To Help With Chores

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This episode provides key tips and information on how to get kids to help with chores while instilling useful life skills. It discusses how to make it engaging by setting up a chore chart, dividing tasks, offering incentives, and breaking down complex tasks into manageable pieces. It also highlights the importance of setting a good example, being consistent and patient with teaching kids, and acknowledging their efforts. Plus get an eye-opening example straight from a client’s own experience.
If you’re struggling with getting kids to help out at home, this episode is for you.

Home organizing, Raise Responsible Kids

#26: Teaching kids about Getting the house ready for guests 

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Teaching Kids About Prepping The House For Guests

In today’s episode I’m talking about getting the house ready for when guests come over. Now,  I know YOU know how to do this already… I’m talking about Teaching Kids  this skill.

If you have school-aged kids who are asking for their friends to come over, but you also want to step it up a notch, then this episode could be the one that arms you with a new direction, another perspective or even just inspires you to test some chores out with your kids.

In this episode you’ll learn:
– When’s the perfect time to bring the chore conversation up, aka ‘How do I get my kids motivated to do chores?’

– The steps I take when teaching my kids how to get the house ready before their friends arrive, where we touch on boundaries and ownership.

– Then we’ll touch on the differences between cleaning, organizing and tidying up and finally, 

– Which spaces to target when there’s little time to prep

Home organizing

#25: 17 Habits To Making Life Easier

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“…going from a cluttered home and feeling overwhelmed to being organized where the house is easy to maintain by everyone –  IS a journey…”

1) They’re inexpensive. 2) They come in a variety of sizes and functions. Like you can hang stuff that’s pretty light to really heavy things. They can also be stuff you put on a regular wall or in your shower stall! 3) You can get them anywhere from the dollar store to even the big box stores. And 4) and this is why they’re so awesome: if you don’t like the spot you initially put them in, you can always remove it without damaging your wall behind and put it someplace else.  They’re easy to remove regardless of how long that hook’s been there. 5 minutes or over 5 years. It won’t damage your wall so long as you follow the instructions on how to remove them!

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When you walk in our bedroom, you’ll see the side of my husband’s tall dresser right away, and my long dresser is along the door on your right.  You won’t see this when you walk in but at the far end of these 2 pieces of furniture, are command hooks placed either on the wall or on the dresser itself.  

So often you won’t see clothes on our bed, the chair or dressers because they’re hanging in a hidden spot strategically placed at the height of the dresser so you don’t see them when you walk into our room.  It cuts the visual clutter that can often happen when your clothes are all over the place.

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Podcast  #20: 5 Ways To Get Kids To Listen – Part 2

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It just happened one morning, as I write this episode out: during the morning rush… well I shouldn’t say rush because the kids weren’t rushing.  We were doing great in time.  We were just in the middle of making their breakfast and putting their lunches together. I was there assisting, cutting up veggies and just making sure they had what they needed and…there it was, in the middle of the kitchen floor: a rag.

People were talking and kicking it around and just not saying anything. And it’s not like they couldn’t feel it or anything, they were barefoot!  They just weren’t aware that there was something on the floor that someone could’ve just stopped to pick up.

But no.

So, as much as I was burning inside to say something, I waited.  I waited to see if someone, ANYONE would  notice. Nothing. So, I ended up doing it myself.

Oftentimes, it feels like the ONLY person who realizes the house is a mess, realizes that things aren’t where they should be, or realizes that other stuff has been sitting THERE for days or even weeks, and finally stops to do something about it?…It’s YOU!

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