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Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

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Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Parenting is all about trial and error. You make the best decisions you can in the moment and often times don’t know how things will play out. Also, some things you think are a huge deal end up not being a big deal, while other things you didn’t notice or pay much attention to turn out to be really important. Christine and Asha talk about 8 lessons they have learned (and do-overs they wish they could have!) over their years parenting kids who now range in ages from 6 to 17. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to edit your life.

0:07.4

I'm Christine Coe.

0:09.3

And I'm Asha Dornfest and we're here to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so

0:13.8

you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

0:16.4

We share practical ways to declutter your home, schedule, and mental space without getting

0:20.0

bogged down by perfection. And we believe that baby steps are the key to getting there. Hi, Asha. Good morning. How are you?

0:28.0

I'm great. How are you? I'm fine. I'm fine. It is spring. This makes me very happy.

0:35.9

Although I feel like you've, I feel like you've had flowers in Portland already for ages.

0:41.0

I know, but it's been pretty much, let's see, it's been raining since I think October.

0:47.3

That's a long time.

0:48.5

I think we've had some number of single digit days of sun.

0:51.5

So I'm pretty much ready for, I'm ready for, I'm ready for something new,

0:55.2

which is sort of funny. It's, uh, it gets me thinking about, you know, how can we change things?

1:00.1

What, what needs changing around here? I mean, it's sort of a very cyclical thing for me,

1:04.4

seasonal thing with spring. I, I start thinking about changing things. And this spring,

1:09.5

it's sort of interesting, um, you know, it's coming toward, you know,

1:14.1

the middle of the second semester of school and spring break is coming up. And my son is,

1:21.6

it just hit me. My son is going to be 18 this year. That's crazy. I know, I know.

1:27.8

It's really quite amazing.

1:29.9

And this, you know, very sort of this routine that we've got into of, you know, of school,

1:35.1

I realized for him really is coming to an end.

1:37.6

We're going to be heading out shortly on a road trip to explore colleges.

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