All right, being a mom is hard, but being a mom during summer vacation when the kids are in the house.

And it feels like the days can be the longest ever can be even harder.

And so we're here again with another summer kind of quick, impactful podcast to give you some tips on handling life things that are really difficult.

Today we're going to talk about summer discipline with kids at home and how you can get

stuff under control and less stressful. Let's get started.

Okay. Hello, Samalakam. Welcome to another episode of the Mindful Masama Speaks podcast. I'm your host, Mindful Masama, Licensed educator of 20 years, mama five, and big sister to the community. As you know in this podcast, we come to you every many and Friday with tips and tricks on how to live a more mindful modern life as a Muslim

without compromising your dean, your identity, and thriving with your other sisters. And so

today it's hard because I know that so many moms are struggling. They're suffering silently

and they feel like they're the only ones. They're the only ones who are losing patience with their

kids. They're the only ones who feel stressed out. Now, some of you have had your kids home all

year because of COVID because of the school regulations. And some of you are just forced to

have them home because it's summer vacation and they're bored

every day or they just want to watch TV or be in devices and you don't feel so good about that

or maybe you're going back and forth with them about the basic things like cleaning their room

or just getting anything done or maybe they're just so bored that they're bothering you a lot

I mean Allaho Alam I know all of us are in different life situations, but here's the thing. I not only have raised

six kids now, al-h-h-h-a, between the ages, I think, of five and 23. So we have about three of them

are married at this point. We do have some little ones still around. And subhannalah, I've

also, as you know, taught thousands and

thousands of teachers and principals and also children, obviously when I used to actually teach as an

educator. And so dealing with families, understand the dynamics worldwide, cultural, you know, social, religious. It's totally what I've done forever.

So I'm going to give you some tips that I use in my house to keep my sanity and especially in the

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