Easier Summer Chores for Families
6/1/202649 min
When kids are home all the time, the house gets dirtier, patience gets shorter, and the pressure to make every day count mounts. Today, we’re going to talk about how to create easier summer chores for families in a very Lazy Genius way. The first part of the episode will be about you and how you think as a parent of these kids, and the second part will be some practical ideas of how to get chores done in your house without you and your kids hating the chores or each other. Let’s jump in. Helpful Companion Links Order my book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy. Episode #330: How I Manage a Busy Season Episode #382: How to Manage Calendar Logistics Sign up for our every-other-week podcast recap email called Latest Lazy Listens. Sign up for my once-a-month newsletter, The Latest Lazy Letter. Grab a copy of my book The Lazy Genius Kitchen or The Lazy Genius Way! (Affiliate links) Download a transcript of this episode. Want to share your Lazy Genius of the Week idea with us? Use this form to tell us about it or record your idea and share your voice on the show. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsKendra Adachi· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hi there, you're listening to The Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi. This podcast is not about hacking the system to find more time or hacking your energy to get more done. Hustling to be the best or to make the most out of every opportunity is exhausting and unsustainable. So here, we do things differently. On this show, we value contentment, compassion, and living in our season. We favor small steps over big systems. Here we are lazy geniuses, being a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't, and I am so glad you're here. Today is episode 471, Easier Summer Chores for Families. Today is June 1st, and if you have kids, you've already started your summer at home with them, or you're very close. And when kids are home all the time, the house gets dirtier, patience gets shorter, and the pressure to make every day count mounts. We feel the same pressure for our kids to make good use of their time as we do with our own, and chores are a big part of that. So today, we're gonna talk about how to create easier summer chores for families in a very lazy genius way. The first part of the episode will be about you and how you think as a parent of these kids, and then the second part will be, like, one big, practical idea of how to get chores done in your house without you and your kids hating the chores or each other. After that, we'll have a little extra something where I share some thoughts