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Best of Both Worlds Podcast

Long Weekend with Little Kids: A Survival Guide EP 368

Best of Both Worlds Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

Kids & Family, Careers, Business

4.6761 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, Laura and Sarah discuss the challenges of long weekends home with young kids! These longs stretches of unstructured time can be really challenging when kids are young (babies / toddlers / preschoolers) and so Laura and Sarah share practical strategies to improve your little-kid weekend outlook.

In the Q&A, a listener asks: Having a 3rd kid! Do I need a minivan?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:41.0

Hi, I'm Laura Vanderkamp. Hi, I'm Laura Vandercam. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker.

0:45.6

And I'm Sarah Hart Unger, a mother of three, practicing physician, writer, and course creator.

0:50.9

We are two working parents who love our careers and our families. Welcome to Best of Both

0:55.8

Worlds. Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun. From figuring out

1:01.8

child care to mapping out long-term career goals, we want you to get the most out of life.

1:30.8

Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. This is Laura. This episode is airing in mid to late August, not right before Labor Day, but getting close on there. This episode is going to be our long weekend little kid survival guide. Why did we want to do this episode? Well, long weekends are thought of as usually being relaxing. But that is from the perspective of people who do not have

1:35.4

young children in their care over this longer period of time when everyone is off their usual

1:40.9

routines. And I was thinking about this over July 4th weekend, which is kind of the last long weekend

1:46.8

that people experienced.

1:48.2

My kids aren't even that little anymore, but we were off, so to speak, with child care

1:53.7

perspective since Tuesday at 5 p.m.

1:56.1

And I remember at the end of Thursday thinking, wow, it's not even the real weekend weekend

2:00.7

yet. And yet there

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