Welcome to the Edit Your Life podcast.

I'm Christine Coe.

And I'm Asha Dornfest and we're here to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

We share practical ways to declutter your home, schedule and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection.

And we believe that baby steps are the key to getting there. In fact, baby steps are the perfect way to start this episode. Would you not agree, Christine Coe? I do agree, Asha Doran Fest. So, you know, as you know,

listeners, this summer, we've been sort of on our own little summer schedule.

We've been alternating new podcast episodes with live conversations on the Edit Your Life Facebook page.

And it's been really, really fun to actually change things up a little bit just for the summer.

But around the July 4th holiday, we took a little, we just took a little holiday break,

but Christine had this really great idea, I think spurred on by something else we had talked

about earlier to create this list of 100 life skills you could teach your kids in five minutes

or less. And the idea was that summer is this

perfect time for kids to really pivot away from all the academics and the, you know, in your head

kind of learning and instead, you know, turn toward life skills. And, you know, I think we were just

trying to get across the idea that it's actually easier than you think to teach them some of these skills so anyway we put our heads together for a list and she turned the list into a shareable graphic and a printable PDF that you could hang on your fridge well this graphic just exploded it was how many people have seen this graphic by now, Christine? I haven't

checked in a little bit, but the last time I checked, it was shared by over 1.5,000 people and viewed

over 185,000 times, which is like kind of crazy because, you know, we've been working on the

internet for like a dozen years or more. And I've never had something be like that, I don't know, shared or viewed or whatever.

So anyway, but regardless of those numbers, I was just glad that it proved helpful and useful to so many people.

Yeah, it really did.

And I think that, I mean, it clearly resonated with a lot of people, myself included, actually, because sometimes you just need a little reminder, you know, like you need a little list to follow to remind you to take a second look at your family's habits and patterns. I mean, I know that we get my family, I get into certain, you know, habits in thinking about

what my kids can do and what they can't do, even at the stage, given that they're teenagers.

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