🎙️ Kitchen Routines That Raise Helpful Children (episode 24)

Welcome to the Prepared Enough podcast, a space where we design organized, intentional spaces and rhythms that build your child’s responsibility and bring more ease into your day. 

Three things in this episode:

✅ 5 routines that build kitchen helpfulness in children

😵‍💫 save your sanity as a kitchen dwelling mama

🙌 work together to save time in the kitchen

Resources & Links:

* Podcast episode on Snack Cabinets

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🎙️ The Lower Cabinet: Designing a Kitchen That Works for Young Kids 

Welcome to the Prepared Enough podcast, a space where we design organized, intentional spaces and rhythms that build your child’s responsibility and bring more ease into your day. 

Three things in this episode:

🍽 what to include in a kid kitchen space

👧 how to organize the space

💪 how to use the space to train independence

Resources & Links:

* Tiny toddler silverware

* Visit my Amazon storefront. Using this helps keep the podcast up and running!

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🎙️ Simple Bathroom Setups That Build Independence

Welcome to the Prepared Enough podcast, a space where we simplify motherhood, nurture our families, and design homes that help us raise independent and helpful children.

Three things in this episode:

🚽 How to setup your bathroom for independent hand washing, teeth, hair, & toileting.

❤️ Two things we find super helpful.

🙌 Four high-impact starting points for quick and easy success.

Resources & Links:

* The three different rubber bands my daughters use for their hair that I swear by: Cotton bands, Clear mini elastics, Colorful mini elastics

* Come say hi! I really like writing to you via my newsletter!

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🎙️ Creating A Bathroom Caddy For Littles

Welcome to the Prepared Enough podcast, a space where we simplify motherhood, nurture our families, and design homes that help us raise independent and helpful children.

Three things in this episode:

👍 Why make a kid basket / caddy full of essentials

🧺 What to include in your kid bathroom caddy

🏠 How to adapt your caddy for different family seasons and ages of children

Resources & Links:

* The three different rubber bands my daughters use for their hair that I swear by: Cotton bandsClear mini elastics Colorful mini elastics

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🎙️ How Your Daily Routines Can Help You Raise Helpful Children

Welcome to the Prepared Enough podcast, a space where we simplify motherhood, nurture our families, and design homes that help us raise independent and helpful children.

Three things in this episode:

🧺 Daily routines where kids can be helpful, not just independent

🗓 Predictable and routine help that doesn’t feel like “extra”

🙌 Helping the family team, owning your role

Resources & Links:

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🎙️ How Your Home Might Be Contributing to Your Child’s Behavior

Welcome to the Prepared Enough podcast, a space where we simplify motherhood, nurture our families, and design homes that help us raise independent and helpful children.

Three things in this episode:

🏠 Your home flow matters. Here’s why!

🛑 Kids follow access, friction, and flow. Here’s how you can use that knowledge!

👧 You can use accessibility to your advantage!

Resources & Links:

* Keep an eye out for a short and sweet audio course in March of 2026!

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🎙️ Do These 9 Things During Holiday Clean Up

Welcome to the Prepared Enough podcast, a space where we simplify motherhood, nurture our families, and design homes that help us raise independent and helpful children.

Three notes about doing the reset now:

* You got it out, you might as well do it.

* Your later self will thank you.

* If you don’t take care of it now, odds are you won’t take care of it in November.

Episode Talking Points:

1. Write a list of any materials or decor you want to buy for next year so you can keep an eye out for products and sales throughout the year or early in the 2026 holiday season (decoration, hosting, etc.).

2. Rid of stuff you don’t want that never made it out of your Christmas bins or any broken decoration you don’t want cluttering your house and attic.

3. Clean basement or attic space where holiday bins will be put back.

4. Toss or fix broken ornaments. If you put them away broken, odds are that you will not fix them next year.

5. Put your ornaments away in the order you want to take them out next year (think: toddlers and other small grabby humans).

6. Wrap books.

7. Update / delete items from online gift lists OR move them to private. Create lists to add to for the upcoming year.

8. The first things you are going to have to think about for next year are holiday cards if you do them. Set a date in your calendar to start thinking about pictures, or DIY cards, or ordering cards, etc.

9. If you have any handmade items you want to make for next year, get serious about actually starting them earlier than November.

Resources & Links:

1. Mini Podcast Course Coming Soon—Your First 5 KidSpace Fixes: Simple Home Tweaks That Change Everything

2. Join the newsletter!

3. Last podcast episode was on my favorite books of 2025.

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🎙️ Favorite Books of 2025

Welcome to the Prepared Enough podcast, a space where we simplify motherhood, nurture our families, and design homes that help us raise independent and helpful children.

Four things in this episode:

⭐️ Favorite book — The Frozen River

🚫 Hated — Jane Austen

⚓️ Wildest non fiction story — Endurance

❤️ Helpful marriage book — Love and Respect

Resources & Links:

Be my friend on Goodreads!! Let’s share book recs.

Link to Amazon List — Books I Read in 2025

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🎙️ 5 Prompts To Help Your Children Willingly Declutter Their Toys

Three things in this episode:

*Strategies for toddlers and preschoolers

*Small language changes and why use them

*How to get kids on board by thinking it’s their idea

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A few observations since saying goodbye to IG:

1. I am entirely clueless on trends. Literally clueless.

2. I am totally clueless on “MUST have” products.

3. I am no longer angry at the world.

4. I don’t feel the need to speak up regardless of how much or how little I know about a topic.

5. Our personal privacy is more protected.

6. I don’t have to work through the emotional turmoil that comes with online trolls.

7. My kids don’t see me constantly on my phone.

A few good things

Two podcasts I’ve enjoyed lately—

🎙 #1 Secret to a Christian Marriage (It’s NOT What You Think) | Live Free with Josh Howerton — I really enjoyed this podcast. It’s an old one but I went back to listen to it.

🎙 How to Design a Christmas That ACTUALLY Centers on Jesus (12 Days Framework) — I’ve really been enjoying the Family Teams podcasts recently.

🎙 Subscribe to Prepared Enough on Apple Podcasts.

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