Glad I Did / Wish I’d Done: Summer Planning: Episode 359
The Mom Hour
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4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re looking back on past summers and remembering the choices we appreciate and the ones we regret. This is a fantastic episode to listen to if you’re starting to plan your summer! We cover family traditions, camps, childcare, travel, and overall philosophies for fun (with boundaries). There’s a fine line between unstructured leisure time and going off the rails, and hopefully our reflections will help you find the right balance for your family. Join us!
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- Listen to these related episodes: Preparing Kids (And Ourselves!) For Summer Independence, A Summertime Chores, Life Skills & Freedoms Reset, and It’s Time To Plan For Summer
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from |
| 0:05.2 | little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages |
| 0:09.0 | of life, but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share |
| 0:12.7 | tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're |
| 0:16.6 | not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome to the mom hour. Hey everyone and welcome to episode 359 of the mom |
| 0:26.7 | hour. I am Sarah Powers here with Megan Francis. Hey Megan. Hey Sarah. So I'm a |
| 0:32.6 | little bit excited about today's topic and it's not just because we're talking |
| 0:36.4 | about planning and summer planning and summer break, but it's also because I |
| 0:40.5 | have a new like a new idea for a structure of an episode that I'm hoping we |
| 0:45.6 | can turn into a series. So thanks for thanks for being here with me Megan and |
| 0:50.1 | just going with my idea. I'm just like hey I'm glad I showed up and I wish I |
| 0:56.0 | had shown up earlier. I don't know. I don't know how to like, you know, tie it |
| 1:00.0 | back to the theme. Yeah. Okay. Well, we've been doing this for seven years. And so |
| 1:05.5 | every year we kind of circle back to some of the same topics and you all |
| 1:09.6 | listening are very patient with us sometimes like sometimes you and I feel |
| 1:12.7 | like we're repeating ourselves after all this time. So it is kind of fun for us |
| 1:17.1 | to think of new ways to present conversations or new structures. And so |
| 1:22.0 | here's how this one works. We're gonna talk about summer break and summer |
| 1:25.1 | planning. But the format we're gonna use is glad I did slash wish I'd done. And |
| 1:30.6 | this is just allows us to look back at our lives as moms of little kids and |
| 1:35.4 | growing kids and bigger kids and kind of pat ourselves on the back for the things |
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