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#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.

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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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Podcast #19: 5 ways to get kids to listen – Part 1

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How do you get your kids to listen?

Well, let me be clear: they DO listen…. Sometimes, just not consistently. And one mom even said:  “sometimes, it’s as though he CHOOSES NOT to listen!”

Now, I’m talking about the boring stuff. The stuff that needs to get done around the house: picking up after themselves, cleaning their room, helping their brother or sister  out, bringing some toilet paper upstairs since they’re coming this way, or having to apologize to their sibling for whatever reason.

…. You know, regular life stuff !

Ahhh ! The frustration when they just don’t want to listen!  I see it all the time: With my own family, kids at the mall, the kids at the school…

So it got me thinking after we left our makeshift support group thing we had going on at the park. I decided to text them a list of what I usually say to get my kids to listen in hopes that it will help them with their challenges and roadblocks.

So my hope for you today, dear listener, is that while you’re listening to this episode, keep an open mind.  Listen to understand where I’m coming from and then take what you need. Tweak what resonates and makes sense for you, so that it applies to your family. I hope this helps!

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Podcast #9: My Secret Sauce to Setting Up The Kids For Success!

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The topic I chose to talk about, in today’s episode, is the basis of how I approach things with my kids. Call it the BLUEPRINT on how to teach my kids and get them to be more and more independent, feel confident and empowered so that I, myself, feel comfortable and confident; and that they’ve got the basics, or foundations in place for the next level that will eventually all add up to THEM becoming self-sufficient, capable, responsible adults. 

This is the foundation of what we do to Set our Kids up For Success!  

In this episode, I unveil how we started and what got the ball rolling for us to have this mindset; the logic behind our thinking that benefits all of us, and the one thing you can do to make your life easier!

I’ve had TONS and TONS of conversations and discussions over the last…. 10+ years about this with my sisters, friends, other parents as well as with clients.  Basically – everyone! But these conversations were always snippets of what I’m about to talk with you about today. 

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Podcast #4: How To Get Your Kids Started With Laundry

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Today, I’m going to talk to you about laundry. The reason why I’m bringing this up now it’s because it’s a BEAST!

When everything was normal, the laundry was always pulling up –  right?  If this was happening to you, because it was definitely happening to me. The laundry was always the last thing being done: either in the wee hours of the morning or right before bed. Or, actually getting your laundry from basket to basket.  So if it was clean laundry, you’re just picking it out from there.

I’m hoping that this is going to help you, in case your kids or your partner isn’t into the whole laundry bit and it all falls on you. So I want to help you out, my dear friend: Spread the joy of laundry. Or, spread the REALITY of what laundry is about! It’s not that bad and it’s not that big of a deal. And with some help, it can actually become a very enjoyable process! Can you believe it? Laundry enjoyable? Yes. It can be.

So by involving the kids at ANY TIME of this process, from toddlers to teens who aren’t sure how to go about it, plug them in into these little mini steps. And slowly, as they get used to it, add a little bit more to their responsibilities. It’s going to serve them so well in the long run and for you especially. We’re teaching our kids to become adults. So teaching this life skill? It’s happening right now!

Establish Your Time, Home organizing

Podcast #2: My Origin Story

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I’m a teacher at heart and love to help people discover more about themselves and their capabilities.  Always looking for the silver-lining and lessons to be learned so that we come out a wiser, more aware and grateful version of ourselves.  I wasn’t always so organized and for a good chunk of the 10+ years of being a mom, I’ve spread myself pretty thin, trying to be everywhere and doing everything – all the time. And sometimes all at once! That’s just a disaster waiting to happen.
I also struggled for a long while with the thought of:

“Is this it? Is this my life, just a mom? And when the kids are grown and doing their own thing… then what?!”

Join me now, as I’ll be taking you, way back, to the beginning of my organizing journey.

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