#244: June Problem Solved
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Yep, there are large problems in the world. And while we educate ourselves and our families on how to help with those problems (more on that in this episode), these pesky non-problem problems are still creeping up. People wrote in and asked things like: How often should I be practicing “bland face” for when my teenager tells me shocking things and How naked is TOO naked when pelotoning with friends?
WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:-
Emily enjoying her kid-free 2 weeks
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various and assorted mask problems
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how we’re approaching speaking about racial equality on social media
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our thoughts on sending kids back to school this fall
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helping anxious kids cope with COVID concerns
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ways to enjoy your family on road trips
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setting boundaries to find time to relax
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using reflective questioning with teens that struggle with deception
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practicing “bland face” in preparation for your kid’s teen years
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giving your kids space to let their energy out
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Rebecky’s new alter ego, Francesca
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giving disrespectful kids the opportunity to try again (and again)
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staying active while sheltering
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Rebecky teases some news for next month’s Problem Solved episode
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| 0:00.0 | At Honda we've been listening out for inspiration and discovered something everyone wants in a car. |
| 0:07.0 | Nothing. |
| 0:08.0 | So, introducing the Honda HRV hybrid. |
| 0:12.0 | The exterior is very nothingy, just beautiful, clean lines |
| 0:17.0 | front to back and you don't need a key or fob so there's nothing to forget or lose. You can do everything with your phone. |
| 0:24.4 | In the back it's all about nothingness with its leg room views and seats that can |
| 0:28.8 | disappear making way for even more nothingness, the HIV hybrid. |
| 0:33.4 | Nothing to it really. |
| 0:35.4 | Why I will listening take us next, |
| 0:37.8 | under the power of dreams. |
| 0:40.0 | Oohoo,, you always seem to get me smiling. |
| 0:49.0 | No matter what you do, be the tail swift to a Maryland mess and you're the kind of fun with heaven |
| 0:57.0 | when I'm feeling down you're the one I call and it's problem solved. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, it's problem solved. |
| 1:08.0 | So I can tell you right now we're in a condo where you can hear everything so if you hear |
| 1:17.7 | banging they're also fixing the roof so it is a constant hammer, nailing of things and a hammer. |
| 1:25.0 | A hammer just fell off the roof. |
| 1:27.0 | It's laying right out here, so you can't even really go outside or you may have a traumatic brain injury. |
| 1:32.0 | So are you looking at a dumpster? They moved it. The lady was so |
| 1:36.7 | nice. She said she didn't know that the roofers were coming but frankly how can you |
| 1:43.0 | roofers don't just show up willy-nilly. |
| 1:45.6 | They don't just descend upon a house like a swarm of locus. |
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