Simple Summer Rituals & Traditions: Episode 367
The Mom Hour
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4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
It’s the last day of May, which means that for many families it’s time to stow away backpacks, say ‘see ya later’ to early morning alarms, and settle in for a more laid-back (or at least DIFFERENT) routine. In this episode, Meagan and Sarah tap into the wisdom of our community and share your simple summer rituals and traditions for filling summer calendars with fun – without totally throwing structure out the window. Enjoy this mashup of sweet, family rituals along with clever house rules to help you prepare for summer days ahead!
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- The Facebook Mom Hour Listener Community Thread that inspired episode 367
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- Past episodes that pair well with Episode 367
- A Summertime Chores, Life Skills & Freedoms Reset
- Preparing Kids (And Ourselves!) For Summer Independence
- Glad I Did / Wish I’d Done: Summer Planning
- (Realistic) Summer Schedule Intentions
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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 367 of the |
| 0:26.6 | mom hour. I am Sarah Powers here as always with Megan Francis. Hey, Megan. Hi, |
| 0:31.6 | Sarah. So if you are listening to this on the day it drops, it is the last day |
| 0:36.2 | of May, which feels like it is about one summer. Yeah. What happened? One of my |
| 0:43.1 | children has born June 1st. And then we always get out of school. It seems |
| 0:48.3 | like the very, very beginning of June. In fact, Reed has had the last day of |
| 0:52.1 | school beyond his birthday or the day after his birthday or you know, something |
| 0:56.0 | like that several different years. So we're talking about summer today, not |
| 1:00.6 | surprisingly, but we are tapping into the wisdom of our community and talking |
| 1:04.6 | about really simple summer rituals, traditions, family fun activities that |
| 1:11.2 | anybody can do. And this is all the wisdom of our community, Megan. It's not |
| 1:15.2 | even your ideas or mind today. No, I know. I'd love that we're gonna highlight |
| 1:19.0 | some ideas because they are truly simple and like really accessible. I guess |
| 1:23.5 | this is the word I'm looking like no matter what kind of community you live in |
| 1:26.1 | or what your daily schedule is like or whatever. I think there's something |
| 1:29.9 | that's accessible for you here. And a lot of it is also one of my favorite |
| 1:33.6 | things was a lot of it is like kind of mom directed. So it makes it has kind |
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