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August 11, 2015Chores & Delegation: Episode 15
In episode 15, Meagan and Sarah get into the details of chores, home management, delegating, and helping kids take on age-appropriate responsibilities.
LINKS MENTIONED:
Relevant posts from The Happiest Home:
Delegate Like Downton: A Strategy For Managing Home Helpers
Confessions of a Chore-Chart Dropout
The Honey-Do List & Why It Works For Us
How Meagan Learned To Keep A Cleaner House
Sometimes It’s OK To Be a Control Freak (or, why Meagan doesn’t delegate certain tasks)

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45 min
August 11, 2015 Chores & Delegation: Episode 15
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Or so the saying goes, right? But as much as we'd like to throw our hands in the air sometimes, there are things that have to get done.

In episode 15, Meagan and Sarah get into the details of chores, home management, delegating, and helping kids take on age-appropriate responsibilities.
46 min
August 04, 2015 Overcoming Mid-Summer Malaise: Episode 14
Well, we've reached THAT point in the summer. The one where you have no idea what day it is and your kids eat Otter Pops and Nutella-straight-from-the-jar for breakfast (and if you think we're exaggerating, just WAIT).
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43 min
August 04, 2015 Overcoming Mid-Summer Malaise: Episode 14
Well, we've reached THAT point in the summer. The one where you have no idea what day it is and your kids eat Otter Pops and Nutella-straight-from-the-jar for breakfast (and if you think we're exaggerating, just WAIT).
45 min
July 28, 2015Raising Confident, Independent Kids – Safely: Episode 13
What does “stranger danger” really mean (and is that the best way to phrase it for our kids)? In Episode 13, Meagan and Sarah talk about giving our kids tools and information to make them safer and more capable as their independence increases.
Episode 13 is the second installment in our two-part series on free-range parenting – if you haven’t listened to Episode 12 yet, you can find it right here (no need to listen in order – the conversation was far from sequential)
LINKS MENTIONED:
Melissa Atkins Wardy’s fantastic blog Pigtail Pals, specifically this post about kids listening to their “tummy voices”
Risky Play: Why Children Love It And Need It (from Peter Gray’s Freedom to Learn blog for Psychology Today)

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47 min
July 28, 2015 Raising Confident, Independent Kids – Safely: Episode 13
What does "stranger danger" really mean (and is that the best way to phrase it for our kids)? In Episode 13, Meagan and Sarah talk about giving our kids tools and information to make them safer and more capable as their independence increases.
47 min
July 21, 2015What Does ‘Free-Range Parenting’ Really Look Like? Episode 12
We want our kids to grow up independent, resourceful, and confident. We also care about their safety. So where's the balance between letting them go and protecting them? And what happens when our 'risk-tolerance' is out of synch with the neighborhood norms? Meagan and Sarah discuss all this and more in Episode 12. This is part one in a two-part series on free-range parenting - be sure to check back next week for the continuation of our discussion!
LINKS MENTIONED:
Lenore Sknazy's Free Range Kids website (and book, and TV show)
Posts from The Happiest Home
6 Ways To Encourage Free Play, Create Stronger Communities, & Raise Safer Kids
Parenting As Though Tomorrow Will Always Come
Books by Gavin de Becker
Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)
The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals that Protect Us From Violence

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43 min
July 21, 2015 What Does ‘Free-Range Parenting’ Really Look Like? Episode 12
We want our kids to grow up independent, resourceful, and confident. We also care about their safety. So where's the balance between letting them go and protecting them? And what happens when our 'risk-tolerance' is out of synch with the neighborhood norms?
45 min
July 13, 2015Your Kids Are Getting Older. Now What? Episode 11
What happens when your kids are all in school, or the overwhelmingly in-your-face years of early motherhood are behind you? Have you thought about what kind of creative hobbies you’ll return to, what your career will look like, or what that available time will mean for your “non-mom self”? In Episode 11 Meagan shares her perspective as a mom on the other side of the trenches (while Sarah asks questions and listens from her place still in them). We talk about the shift that happens when kids get older and need us a little less – how it’s both liberating and also a little sad and scary – and about the obstacles some women face as they navigate these “beyond baby” years.
LINKS MENTIONED:
Episode 6, where we talk about how to know if you’re “done” having babies
Meagan’s Beyond Baby book (by no means a prerequisite for the retreat, but written around a similar theme) can be purchased from this page

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46 min
July 13, 2015 Your Kids Are Getting Older. Now What? Episode 11
What happens when your kids are all in school, or the overwhelmingly in-your-face years of early motherhood are behind you? Have you thought about what kind of creative hobbies you’ll return to, what your career will look like, or what that available time will mean for your “non-mom self”? In Episode 11 Meagan shares her perspective as
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