Are you ready to take control of summer chaos?
Join Tiffany in this mini-episode of Scared Confident for practical tips to reclaim your sanity.
Tiffany shares essential strategies to manage midsummer madness, from the ten-minute pick-and-put routine to prepping fruits and veggies, creating a daily agenda, and planning family fun weekends.
Tune in for actionable steps to bring balance and joy to your daily routine.
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Timestamps:
[00:00] Intro
[00:22] Ten-Minute Pick and Put
[01:18] Fruit and Veggie Prep
[02:26] Creating an Agenda for the Day
[03:55] Weekend Chore List
Tiffany Sauder [00:00:01]:Welcome to Scared Confident. I'm your host, Tiffany Sauder. Okay, this is your mid summer sanity check. If you're, like, feeling like, holy crap. Things feel really off the rails. The house is crazy. We're just behind. Here are a few things that always help us get through the summer a little bit more smoothly.
Tiffany Sauder [00:00:22]:One is you've heard me talk about the ten minute pick and put. At the end of the day, set Alexa for ten minutes and pick stuff up and put it away where it goes. This is a never more important than during the summer because our houses get hit really, really hard. And this is just inside and outside. Putting things away, helping everybody kind of start the day fresh, gives us, I feel, like, more creative energy than when everything is so cluttery and so crazy. So that's one cling to your ten minute pick and put. Do it every single night. Don't break form.
Tiffany Sauder [00:00:54]:It's really important. The second, if you feel like at this point in the summer, your kids are eating like gushers, doritos and fruit snacks. I hear you. I feel you. I know. But fruit and veggie prep, having all of it in clear containers in the fridge, washed, chopped, ready to go, makes it so much easier for them to grab it. They aren't necessarily grabbing doritos and gushers because they want it. It's because it's easy.
Tiffany Sauder [00:01:18]:And so, again, cling to this thing of fruit and veggie prep ever. Every night, usually look through the fridge. Every night is extreme. Probably three times a week, look through and make sure that tomorrow they're going to be able to pull something healthy out of the fridge. Even better. After breakfast is cleaned up, just put the fruit and veggies in the middle of the island. They will just come and grab it and snack on it all day long. And I guarantee you they'll be in the pantry less.
Tiffany Sauder [00:01:41]:It's just like, happens every single time. Yes, it costs more to have them eat strawberries all day long, that's for sure. But it's so much better for them, and I know they feel better afterwards. So fruit and veggie prep, have that stuff on hand. Third one. It's always helped us to have an agenda for the day where everybody works together on like, what time is everybody going to be up and dressed? How long are we going to spend outside in the morning? What time are we going to have lunch and who's in charge of making it? And then what happens in the afternoon, my big girls will even sometimes go on Pinterest and pull a couple of like fun activities or some painting, maybe some, I don't know, math cards. Like, the kids are at home during the day if they're not in camps or clubs. And so when the day is totally unstructured, everybody's like, I'm bored.
Tiffany Sauder [00:02:26]:So reading time, tv time, education time, craft time, outside time, pickup time, who's making lunch, making an agenda breaks up the day for them. So it's not these big three, four hour chunks of time that they're just trying to solve. Maybe you have kids. We don't live in a neighborhood with a bunch of kids running around. And so I think that can change the vibe, too. Like, they have to be more creative on their own. And I know I'll have some friends over and stuff like that. But it's not just like they go outside in the morning and they come back at 430 because they've just been in the neighborhood playing.
Tiffany Sauder [00:02:59]:It's just not how our neighborhood is set up. So creating agenda for the day has been very helpful. We've done this last couple summers, and it's been super, super helpful. And the last is if you're doing your own cleaning and laundry and chores and those kinds of things, having a getting ahead for the weekend tour list so that on the weekends, when you and your spouse are available for the family to go do fun things, go to a state park, go camping, you know, do fun summer stuff on the weekends, have like a get ahead of the weekend chore list so that that stuff gets pulled into the week for the family and you're not spending the weekend when you are available to go do fun adventure stuff. That can help as well. So we try to do that by Friday afternoon that everything is kind of done and so that we can just have fun on the weekends and have people over and, you know, do bonfires and swim and all the things that come with summer, which is so fun. So anyway, a couple of midsummer tips for you. If you're dying out there, I see you.
Tiffany Sauder [00:03:55]:You'll be fine. They'll be back in school before you know it. Thanks for listening. Thank you for joining me on another episode of Scared Confident. Until next time, keep telling fear. You will not decide what happens in my life. I will.
