Hey there, you're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Dachee and I'm here

to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

This is episode 163, When to Relax the Rules. Summer is a season of relaxation of later

bedtimes and loungey days. But we've also like kind of already been in a weird season

of pseudo relaxation and later bedtimes and loungey days because of COVID-19. So it's

safe to say that I think easing into summer rhythms, it feels a little complicated right

now. If you're like me, the general rhythm of summer is to start strong with the chill

factor, right? We're hanging out, we're not having much of a schedule, we're just enjoying

being off of school. And then about two weeks in, that gets old, the kids are missing

friends, people are starting to wine a little, I'm starting to panic that I didn't start

a summer reading sticker chart early enough for it to count. And like, I guess we should

probably do like chores and stuff around this time. You will find me at the kitchen table

with three giant pieces of poster board, like one for each kid, a handful of those massive

sharpies that you may get ourselves with and like elaborate plans.

Do I need to tell you what happens, not even a week later, when I can't even find the

poster board? No, I do not. The thing about that cycle is that we've already kind of

gone through it. We've already been chill and then freaked out and then given up. It

was called online school. Now it's the middle of June. Things are like kind of opening

up, but there's still not a vaccine for COVID-19 and still a lot of closed places, still

a lot of anxiety around what the best choices are when it comes to being out in the world

with our families. Also, we won't even get into the idea that we don't know what school

will look like when it comes back, if it comes back. That's a whole other cluster we're

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