#285: All Things Entertainment

Struggle Well School

Emily Thomas

Education, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Self-improvement, Mental Health

5.0 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

We are so excited for you! After listening to this episode you will have plenty of fresh ideas for how to keep yourself and the kids entertained. With cooler weather coming and gift-buying on the brain, this topic is perfect for the turn of the season. Emily has a suggestion for how you can be Fun Mom for about $15 with a yes moment vs. yes day, Kate has a free-ninety free activity that can keep you busy for hours and Rebecca brings it with book suggestions (from her fictional genre “page-turner”) that will eliminate decision fatigue for you.

WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:

TV Suggestions: Monk, Psych, The Mysterious Benedict Society, Tiny Desk, Mark Rober
Our ideas for getting kids off screens: Diamond painting, custom paint by numbers, parent/child coloring book, What Do You Meme (Family Edition), Pictureka!
Ideas for getting outside: Throw Throw Burrito, Yardzee, Spike Ball
Grab and go for your purse: Spot it, Play-doh, Slime, Uno, Uno Flip!, Dos
Magazines we like: Cooks Illustrated, Clubhouse, National Geographic Kids, Highlights, Highlights High Five, Sports Illustrated Kids, Real Simple, People & Cooking Light
Books we like: The Penderwick Series, Joyce Maynard books, You, Murder in the Yoga Store
Gift idea for parents: StoryWorth + Rebecca’s experience with it
Helping your kids navigate cell phones in a healthy way with Pinwheel
Ways to create space in your house for non-screen activities
KS: Bible and a Bag, Home Decorating, Front Door Fails
GL: Being a COVID nurse, enneagram 2 best friends, organizing during stress

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CONNECT WITH REBECCA:

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CONNECT WITH KATE:

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The symptoms I forget, the affection is nonsense
0:06.0	It's just the way it is, life gets rough around me edges
0:11.0	Peace is just a perspective, shift the way
0:14.0	If I could Emily in Kate, I would have heard of her
0:20.0	This is mom struggling well
0:25.0	Because we're all in this together
0:30.0	You're just mom struggling well
0:34.0	Welcome back friends, you are listening to the mom struggling well podcast
0:38.0	This is the podcast that helps you love your actual life
0:41.0	So you don't need to run away from home
0:43.0	We believe perfection is nonsense
0:45.0	And peace is a perspective, shift away
0:48.0	Today we're going to talk about entertainment
0:51.0	It's a broad topic and I'm excited about it
0:55.0	Are you?
0:56.0	I'm excited to see where it takes us, my eyes are really wide
0:59.0	I think excited in this case means scared
1:03.0	Before we get into that, I just want to talk about who's winning over on Patreon
1:08.0	This might be entertaining
1:10.0	Name wise
1:11.0	Name wise who's winning
1:13.0	This is my favorite
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