Ep. 95: Extracurriculars
Simple
Tsh Oxenreider
4.3 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2017
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
There are so many great after-school activities for our kiddos, but we can't say yes to everything. How do we choose? And how do we balance tapping into the fantastic resources of sports, music, arts, and life skills while still having plenty of free time to just... be a kid?
What if it's a great option for an individual child in our family, but it negatively affects the whole clan? When you have multiple schedules to wrangle, how do you handle the spinning plates of extracurriculars without becoming the Parent Taxi, throwing family dinner by the wayside, and generally becoming a basketcase of a person?
These are the issues co-host Stephanie and I talk about in this episode: choosing how to help our kids get involved in extracurriculars, while still fostering plenty of free time for play and rest.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we begin, this episode is sponsored by Kensington Books with their new novel out, |
| 0:04.4 | Blue Hollow Falls by Donna Kaufman. |
| 0:06.6 | Library Journal says, A gorgeous setting, a welcoming town, and quirky, lovable characters |
| 0:10.5 | make Blue Hollow Falls a dream destination for readers and a perfect launch for a promising |
| 0:14.9 | new series. |
| 0:16.1 | Check out the novel at Kensingtonbooks.com and in the show notes of this episode. |
| 0:20.1 | It's The Simple Show. You've got episode 95. |
| 0:22.6 | Hi, I'm Tishawkson Rider. |
| 0:27.6 | And I'm Stephanie Langford. |
| 0:29.6 | And on The Simple Show, we talk about saying no and yes to the right things. |
| 0:33.6 | And in this episode, we're talking about kids' extracurricular activities. You know, there are so many |
| 0:38.6 | possibilities. How do you decide what works for you and your family? So today we're going to discuss |
| 0:43.3 | what we say known yes to you when it comes to the activities. Our kids participated. Before we get |
| 0:48.4 | going, I just want to make a quick announcement that I'm going to be at Nest Fest. This is an event put on by my dear friend, Mike Willan Smith. |
| 0:58.0 | You might know her as the nester from Nesting Place. |
| 1:01.0 | On October 21st, she hosts this really fantastic outdoor, casual, fall festival-like thing. |
| 1:08.6 | So October 21st, that's a Saturday. |
| 1:10.1 | And there are tickets in the show notes. |
| 1:11.4 | I'm going to be doing a book signing along with some other really great authors like Emily Freeman, |
| 1:15.1 | Anne Bogle, Ruth Simmons, lots of other people, our listeners probably have heard of, along with |
| 1:20.6 | live music, food trucks, really great booths with fantastic home goods. It's just so much fun. |
| 1:26.8 | And it's a beautiful time of year to be in that |
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