How to Fall in Love with Your Weekends EP 430

Best of Both Worlds Podcast

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Kids & Family, Careers, Business

4.6 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, Laura and Sarah share a 5-part formula for crafting a weekend that you truly enjoy -- or that at least contains some elements you enjoy! They acknowledge the struggle (it's real!) of weekends feeling like a lot of work during the infant/toddler years and provide suggestions that might help in that era, plus plenty of discussion of how you might built more enjoyment into your weekends during this school aged/teen years.

In the Q&A, a listener asks for thoughts on getting a weekend babysitter for a few hours even if one works a full time job during the week.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:13.6	Hi, I'm Laura Vanderkamp.
0:15.8	I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker.
0:19.7	And I'm Sarah Hart Unger, a mother of three, practicing physician, writer, and course creator.
0:25.0	We are two working parents who love our careers and our families.
0:28.9	Welcome to Best of Both Worlds.
0:30.9	Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun.
0:35.3	From figuring out child care to mapping out long-term career goals,
0:38.7	we want you to get the most out of life. Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. This is Laura. This
0:48.3	episode is airing in late October of 2025. We are going to be talking about creating great weekends. We feel that weekends
0:58.0	are an important part of life. They can also be a complicated part of life if you have little kids.
1:04.6	And so we want to start this episode with a bit of a caveat here, which is that to be totally
1:09.9	transparent, I am so much
1:13.0	happier with my weekends now than when my kids were very little, because it is actually
1:19.0	possible to relax when no one has to be watched every minute. When I have older kids who can do
1:25.8	quick babysitting, so I don't have to load like, load three kids in the car to go anywhere.
1:30.4	When they are capable of entertaining themselves for big chunks of time, there's just so much more opportunity to relax and not have to think through absolutely every single minute and who is on top of the two-year-old
1:44.4	and all that good stuff. And so I almost feel like weekends need to be two separate topics,
1:49.3	depending on whether you have little kids versus older kids. I mean, if you are in the little
1:56.4	kid stage, though, I want to start by saying it probably will get better in a few years.
2:19.9	And pretty soon, as long as you don't have five kids spread over 12 years, right? Right, Sarah? I just did the math for myself. I'm like, okay, so I had 11 years of that since my kids are a six-year spread. Yeah. Yeah. I had a 17 years of having a kid under age five. But yes, we're out of it now. Yeah. And I guess, I mean,
2:25.4	we're going to get to this later, but the only real way to recreate the feeling of having,
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