Brooke Romney: "How to Prioritize FUN As a Family + Why It REALLY Matters”

About Progress

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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What if the secret to stronger family bonds isn’t more structure, but more fun? In this session, Brooke Romney joins Monica Packer to share how letting go of perfection and embracing playfulness transformed her relationships, her parenting, and her relationship with parenting. Discover practical ways to infuse joy into everyday moments, why fun matters more than you think, and how even the smallest shifts can create connection. Press play and get inspired to make memories that matter, better be the mom you want to be, and shift your experience with motherhood. FREEBIE for all: 75 Would You Rather Questions for Teens download BONUS raffled off to All-Access Pass Holders: Your choice of a Modern Manners Flipbook Get the Basic Pass to watch and/or read each speaker session for free through Sunday, October 12th. Upgrade to the All-Access Pass for ad-free listening on a private podcast feed, + lifetime access to all content visual, audio, and written. Brooke believes no one should have to parent through the teen years alone. She's created books, a game, and a large online community that educates, encourages, and supports. FOLLOW ON IG WEBSITE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Monica Packer. What you're about to hear is a session from my five-day online event going on right now,
0:06.2	The More for Mom's Conference. This event is for the mom who is ready for more in her happiness,
0:11.9	habits, health, home, and hobbies. Audio versions of each speaker session will only be available
0:17.1	on the public about progress feed through Sunday, October 12th. For ad-free video and
0:22.1	audio versions of all content, be sure to sign up for the basic or all-access pass before the
0:27.4	conference ends on October 12th. You can do so at aboutprogress.com slash more for moms. Now
0:33.4	on to our special session.
0:43.6	Thank you. Now on to our special session. Brooke Romney, a warm welcome to the Moor for Mom's Conference.
0:47.2	Thank you.
0:48.0	I am so happy to be a part of this.
0:50.4	I could not wait to talk to you, mostly because I feel like you are like me.
0:55.2	You're a normal mom with all the same pressures and stressors that we have.
1:00.5	And yet, you have this pursuit to make life better.
1:04.0	And in a way, that's also not so serious too, because so much about improving a family can be pretty serious.
1:14.5	Today we're going to talk about how to do that with fun in mind.
1:22.5	Fun being the primary goal. And I wanted to begin with how you and your family came to value fun.
1:32.8	Well, it was actually an interesting trajectory because I would say that in general, I was someone who didn't value fun.
1:34.9	I was a little bit more of a serious person.
1:38.3	I had goals and plans and things that we needed to do.
1:46.4	But fairly soon after I had kids and I was staying home with them, I realized that kids actually are not interested in goals and plans and progression in the same way than I was.
1:51.6	And so I had to really let go of everything being productive and, you know, goal-oriented.
2:00.1	And when I did that and I started to just enjoy
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