Our culture has lowered standards in every area of life. Let’s reverse that trend, starting with our own families. In the workplace studies have shown that people will rise to meet your expectations when you respect and appreciate them. This is even more true with family members whom you love and cherish to the extent […]
How to Delegate the Invisible Work that you do at Home
Who Does What: Current Trends in our Homes When studies survey married couples to learn about the division of labor within the home they use five categories: cooking, meal cleanup, grocery shopping, housework and laundry. Research has shown extensively that the distribution of this labor among the household members has a tremendous affect on the […]
How It Went: A Week Without Screen Time
We’re finishing the first week of summer at my house. We all agreed ahead of time that we would take the first 7 days of summer off from screens (tv, computer, and video games). And in a nutshell, it went really well; it was really, really pleasant. It was a week of a lot of […]
How to Create a Summer Bucket List and then actually do it
Have you decided to create a summer bucket list? I recommend it, besides helping you work on your lifetime bucket list, it also helps you to be purposeful about how you spend your summer. We’ve got a small budget for summer fun. For the first time I have two kids that just finished a whole […]
Reading: Irresistible, and what you need to know about addictive technology
Here are the 3 biggest things you need to know: 1) Any of us could become addicted to something as a result of exposure to circumstances and certain experiences, addiction is not something certain people are predisposed to. 2) However, you won’t become addicted unless a behavior or substance meets a psychological need. Addiction can’t take hold without […]
Reading: Boundaries With Kids
When I asked readers to vote on which of these 8 books I should talk about next, I got a strong vote for Boundaries With Kids. I was expecting that boundaries would help me with parenting so I was excited to read it, but I got as far as the point where it said kids […]