Spring Mailbag! Kid bedtimes, household chores, 'split shift' childcare, and more EP 347
Best of Both Worlds Podcast
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 761 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode features a fresh crop of mailbag questions! Topics include:
- split shift childcare
- handling the daily household chores with young kids
- different formats for kid activities
- how has work / productivity changed since COVID
- thoughts on digital calendar frames
- retirement plans?
- dealing with kids that have disparate sleep needs
- how to handle the tension between wanting to stay up with teens and having your own morning routine
- the next 5 years of BOBW!
Thank you to all for submitting questions - keep them coming! You can always find contact info on our websites, theshubox.com and lauravanderkam.com
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| 0:00.0 | Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced. |
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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. |
| 1:18.3 | Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. This is Laura. This episode, we believe, is airing toward late March of 2024. |
| 1:28.6 | Sarah and I are recording a live episode together here in Naples, Florida, where we've gathered to talk future planning for best of both worlds and have a little fun at the same time. So this is an episode where we're going to be answering |
| 1:33.9 | questions that listeners sent in, readers of our various blogs. So just quick reminder for people, |
| 1:40.1 | Sarah, how can they reach us? Yeah. So you can find my website at the shoebox.com, T-H-E-S-H-U-B-O-X.com. |
| 1:48.0 | You can always leave a comment there. |
| 1:49.5 | And of course, if you're a Patreon member, then you can always reach us that way as well. |
| 1:53.5 | Yeah, or leave it for me on Instagram. |
| 1:55.7 | I'm at L.Vandercam or my blog, LauraVandercam. |
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