Preparing Kids (And Ourselves!) For Summer Independence

The Mom Hour

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Parenting, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 18 March 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

From day camps to sleep-away camps, playdates with new friends to sleepovers with grandparents, summer vacation can be a great time for your child to hone their independence skills. But it can be scary, too. Sometimes a health issue, disability or allergy can make our kids seem especially vulnerable. Sometimes we’re just not sure they’re ready to take that next significant step in self-sufficiency. So how do we balance guarding them from harm with encouraging their growth?

In this special episode of The Mom Hour, we’ll talk about the tools you can use to help everyone feel ready for summer plans and the big adjustments that come along with the season. Meagan and Sarah share stories about times our kids seemed especially vulnerable, how those fears or nerves showed up in our kids (and us!), what we did to feel calm and confident, and how we plan for major milestones with kids who are content to stay tucked under our wings – or the ones we’d like to keep there longer than they want to stay.

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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 the mom hour. I am Sarah
0:26.4	Powers here with Megan Francis. Hey Megan. Hi Sarah. We're really excited to be
0:31.6	popping into your podcast feed unannounced or only recently announced because
0:36.1	we mentioned it on Tuesday. Yeah. Definitely. We're always uninvited, but
0:40.1	here we are. And we have a special episode here today for you. We're looking
0:45.0	ahead to summer today. We're talking about stretching our kids wings, getting
0:51.0	kids ready for some increased independence in the summer, which is a topic that
0:55.6	is fraught for a lot of moms. And it's weird to be talking about it in kind of
1:00.0	early March or mid March by the time you're hearing this, but this is the time
1:04.3	when decisions about summer are being made. And that is like that's even extra
1:08.3	fraught because if you have like a five year old, four months of their life is
1:12.4	like a big chunk of their life. So to know whether they're going to be ready for
1:15.4	that like all day zoo camp or whatever in July is like very daunting. So there's
1:20.8	a lot to unpack here. There is an and whether they'll be ready or whether
1:24.8	they'll even have any interest anymore. So I know in my family, I've been very guilty of,
1:29.7	you know, like glomming onto a current interest and getting all excited and then being like,
1:35.3	I'm signing you up for this and this. And then three or four months later, the kid is like,
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