Mother Tongue

Running a Household Without Resentment


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There is so much effort that goes into running family life. There are seemingly endless housekeeping tasks, time planning, relationship maintenance, spiritual, academic, and physical teaching of children, budgeting, providing for the family’s needs, etc. You get the picture—it’s a long list. Sometimes, because of a lack of communication between partners, it is easy to build resentment when one person feels like he or she is carrying most of the load. In this episode, we lay out a specific program created by Eve Rodsky in her book Fair Play that we have used in our homes to help increase communication about task breakdown and cut down on resentment.


This method is nice because it values both partners roles, takes into consideration the many different parenting/providing setups like 2 income households, one full time provider and one stay-at-home parent, and everything in between. It’s all about just finding what works for your family, and it is creates a framework for some really powerful dialogue between partners.


The book that inspired us for this episode:


Fair Play // Eve Rodsky // https://amzn.to/2M00mpf


The cards to start playing!:


 https://www.fairplaylife.com/downloadable-cards


Our Website (You can find all show notes here, along with book recommendations and links to all past books):


https://www.findthemagic.co


Find us on instagram:


Felica: https://www.instagram.com/felicaallen/


Taralyn: https://www.instagram.com/taralyngriffin/


p.s. Our secret to reading so many books is this little baby, a magical wireless earbud:) https://amzn.to/36d89Zj



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