Kindly Living with Your Kids All Summer Long
6/22/202645 min
This is an episode to help us be kind people to our people, particularly in this summer season when kids are usually home. We all want to be kind people, to be thoughtful about how we treat each other, and in the pressure cooker of a weird summer, kindness and thoughtfulness might get compromised. Today, I’m sharing seven typical obstacles to being home with people for a long stretch of time and how to approach them from a kind Lazy Genius perspective.
Helpful Companion Links
- Order my book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy.
- Episode #473: How to Deal with a Messy House All Summer Long
- Episode #423: How to Get Unstuck When Your Space Is a Mess
- Episode #369: The Snack Episode
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First 90 secondsKendra Adachi· Host0:00
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