274 | All the Back-to-School Feels (and Tips)

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

5 • 39.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Thank you to GoGURT for sponsoring today's episode! Try the new GoGURT protein we talked about in this episode, it’s amazing! ▶ https://bit.ly/3HCC0BY In today’s episode we got all in our “back to school” feels as we talked about our daughter starting kindergarten. Where is time going?! We also chatted about tips and tricks we’ve implemented over the years to remove some of the back to school chaos and create peaceful mornings before school drop- off. If you’re a parent or educator out there, we see you and know that the back to school season can be WILD. Hang in there, we’re all in this together :) Love you guys! Shawn & Andrew Beam Kids is now available online at https://www.shopbeam.com/COUPLETHINGS Take advantage of our exclusive discount of up to 40% off using code COUPLETHINGS Subscribe to our newsletter ▶ https://www.familymade.com/newsletter Follow our podcast Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/shawnandandrewpods/ Follow My Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/ShawnJohnson Follow My Tik Tok ▶ https://www.tiktok.com/@shawnjohnson Shop My LTK Page ▶ https://www.shopltk.com/explore/shawnjohnson Like the Facebook page! ▶ https://www.facebook.com/ShawnJohnson Follow Andrew’s Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/AndrewDEast Andrew’s Tik Tok ▶ https://www.tiktok.com/@andrewdeast?lang=en (00:00) our baby starting kindergarten and the transitions we are navigating (01:14) how is fall already almost here? (02:02) gogurt protein for the win (02:25) comment of the day (03:00) emotions as parents right now and all the new phases (05:35) navigating “selfishness” as a parent and what works for us (08:40) kindergarten just feels different… this transition is hitting hard (11:18) giving our kids the best chance we can to nurture their treasures (15:27) back to school traditions: ourselves vs. our kids now (21:20) catching shadows at home (23:00) getting back in the zone for school (31:18) tips and tricks for school mornings (39:00) be excited for your kids… cry when you get home #GoGURTPartner #BacktoSchool #ShawnAndAndrewPods #Family Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody? Welcome back to a couple things.
0:02.1	With Sean and Andrew.
0:03.1	Today's a special one, probably one we're going to get emotional about.
0:06.1	But we are talking about back to school.
0:08.7	It's nothing new to us because our kids have been going to a school of some sort for a few years.
0:15.1	But it is a big one because Drew, our baby Drew, is going into kindergarten.
0:21.5	Dang.
0:22.5	Kindergarten.
0:23.4	That's crazy.
0:24.1	Real school.
0:25.5	Real hours.
0:27.2	I can't just pull her out whenever anymore.
0:30.1	It's going to be so different.
0:33.2	So we're going to dedicate this entire episode to walking you guys through what we used to do
0:39.2	during the back to school season as kids and how we are now doing that with our kids.
0:44.4	The summer transition, it's full of transitions.
0:46.8	Andrew and I've been talking about this recently that it feels like a season right now,
0:49.9	getting ready to back to school, of massive transitions and how we're handling them. Yeah.
0:55.5	So yes, get ready for some fun tidbits and hacks, but also probably a lot of tears.
1:00.8	It's going to be part nostalgia as Sean and I reflect on our back to school days. And then maybe
1:05.9	some advice that we're going to walk through as well that we need to abide by as well yes so yes
1:12.4	we're going to go through that i also just i can't believe summer is such a such an interesting season
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