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Grown-Upping the Summer (2/4) | 131

Simple

Tsh Oxenreider

Education

4.3 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Continuing our series on grown-upping the summer, this time Kendra and I talk about work. Because sure, it's summer, but also, we're adults with jobs and stuff.

As self-employed types, we talk about how we get work done with kids in the house — hers are a bit younger, so she shares juggling toddlers and young school-age kiddos, while my oldest is now 13 and I can attest: it makes allllll the difference now in my own work life.

Basically, what I'm saying to the working parents with tinies at home is: before you know it, it most likely will get easier. I've been exactly where you are and thought it'd never happen.

It's still a challenge for me, though, so I share how expectations make or break me when it comes to getting work done in the summer. Plus, there's a newer pressure I didn't feel a few years ago when everyone was smaller:

I'll blink, and kids will start leaving the house. So family-bonded summers actually feel more important than ever right now.


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0:00.0

It's a simple show. You've got episode 131.

0:07.2

Hi, I'm Tishoxen writer. And I'm Kendra Adachi.

0:10.3

And on this show we break down big ideas. In this episode, we're continuing our series,

0:15.1

Grown Uping the Summer, how and why you should enjoy your summer too.

0:19.4

Before you dive in, just a quick, a reminder that if you don't yet have the weekly email,

0:26.2

you need to get it because when you get that email you will never miss an episode.

0:29.8

Every week I write a super short email, you can read it in under a minute I even test it out to make

0:34.7

sure because I love getting short emails and I hate getting a long one so I want to do the

0:38.0

same for you it's called five quick things and it's five things I share that I either made or really enjoyed.

0:45.0

And it's done by somebody else and I just want to make sure that you see it.

0:49.0

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0:53.8

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1:05.6

I'm a huge fan of five quick things and I get to the end I get to the end and I'm like

1:10.1

that was so short and I feel so enriched in my life like it's the best I love

1:15.4

I love that thank you for saying that

1:18.5

okay Kendra we talked in the last episode about grown-uping the summer specifically bucket

1:24.1

lists and how we as adults with responsibilities think about them and how we've

1:28.4

kind of tempered our expectations. So let's continue our chat but this time let's talk about work because it's all well and good to talk about we're going to learn French and we're going to fix the laundry room and we're going to, I don't know, whatever it is we're gonna do read books but

1:43.8

really you and I also have work to do we can't just like decide to not do it so

1:48.8

what are your initial thoughts on your work why don't you share with us just a little bit about what it is you do and how you structure your time for that?

1:57.0

Yeah, well my husband is a school counselor. He works in a public middle school and counsels 13 year olds so bless him bless him

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