House Rules For Sibling Harmony: Episode 314

The Mom Hour

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Parenting, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Having a house rule gives parents a shorthand for handling the same small annoyance the same way, every time. Will it stop your kids from fighting over the coveted “fishy cup” or arguing over whose turn it is to set the table? It will not. But it WILL allow you to consistently apply the same judiciary process (and one that feels right to YOU) each time kids start to go at it, which can cut down on a lot of mental gymnastics for mom. The beauty of house rules is that they’re born from necessity and are unique to each family, so in today’s episode we’re including smart ideas from dozens of our community members, all in the pursuit of House Rules For Sibling Harmony. Join us!

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We mentioned Kendra Adachi, The Lazy Genius, who says wise things about house rules in her book The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn’t, and Get Stuff Done
Other episodes where we talk about raising siblings are collected here
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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 314 of the mom
0:26.4	hour. I am Sarah Powers here with Megan Francis. Hey Megan. Hey Sarah. We're not
0:31.6	together in person. It was just gonna say this is the first time we've recorded
0:35.1	not in the same room in weeks. Is that accurate? I mean we were only together
0:40.2	recording one time and I was only there for like four days, but still it's
0:43.7	been weeks since we recorded not together and it makes me sad. I reject this
0:48.6	change to our situation. We are talking about house rules for sibling
0:55.4	harmony today. I'm really excited about this. This is actually kicking off a
0:59.5	loose series. By that I mean we're not gonna do a bunch of these in a row, but
1:04.0	it's something we hope to return to periodically, right? Yeah and I think that
1:08.2	with us sometimes we don't go in intending for something to be a really structured
1:11.9	series and then we just have so much fun with it and realize that people love
1:15.0	it. So we just keep bringing it back and I have a feeling this will be one of
1:17.5	those where like now that we're doing this one that is house rules about
1:21.6	siblings. I haven't feeling people would be like, oh my gosh, I love it. I want to
1:26.3	hear your house rules about. I don't know, X, Y, and Z. Dinner keeping the house
1:31.4	clean. There's so many places we could go with this. Yeah, there is. And one
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