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I'm your host Rachel Nielsen. Thank you so much for being here

Hello my friends. It's July

We have made it a month into summer and I hope your days have been filled with sunshine and popsicles and

Meaningful work time as well as meaningful relaxation

And last week's episode about how to develop a peaceful routine with kids

Felicia Allen talked about how important it is to build you time into your schedule

Some of you may have been thinking

But how?

It sounds so great in theory, but depending on your phase of motherhood

It may feel nearly impossible to carve out any alone time during the day

Especially during the summer months when everyone is home all the time

That's why I decided to pull this episode from the archives to re-air today

Because having a daily quiet time for my kids has been one of the keys to my happiness as a mother

And I hope this episode will give you some concrete ideas for how to build some quiet

sanity time into your busy summer days. I also want to add that in the three years since this episode originally aired

I've gotten some follow-up questions about it that I will answer at the end of the episode

So listen and tell the very end to hear those answers

I'll also respond to a mom who's at her wits end with a three-year-old who truly refuses to do quiet time and

Spends the hour banging on his door screaming

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