February 2, 2023 • 14 mins
Justin & Kylie reflect on their week and determine what they can do better next time
Topics included in this episode -
- Marie Kondo breaking news
- Kylie is enjoying school going back
- School refusal
- Justin's running with his girls
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's the Happy Families Podcast. It's the podcast for the
time poor parent who just wants answers now.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
To see them go into the school playground this year
with an added level of confidence knowing what to expect
was just so heartening.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
And now here's the stars of our show, My Mom
and Dad.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Every Friday and the Happy Families Podcast. Me, Doc, Justin
Coilson and Kylie. That's you, Me, Yes, you talk about
talk about what's going well to give us surprise huh
and what's not. It's called I'll do Better Tomorrow. It's
our opportunity to reflect me intentional about parents. But before
we get there, Kylie, I want to share with you
some news that's popped up on the Axios news channel
(00:49):
that I think is going to be revelatory. Revelatory. Is
that revelatory? Revelatory? I knew I said it wrong. Revelatory
for parents around the world who love Marie Condo. Do
you like Marie Condo?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Who is she?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Maria Condo? Marie Kondo is the is the minimalist. Yeah,
the minimalists make the house perfect, keep everything looking immaculate.
Person the person who is responsible for more stress of
mothers around the world. Than perhaps anyone else, because her
houses are immaculate and her designs are stunning, and everyone says, oh,
what my house to look like? That she is the
one with the Instagram that everyone goes, oh like housekeeping
(01:25):
goals Marie Kondo.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, that's why stour away from it.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Okay, So she's in the news this past week. This
is from January twenty eight, twenty twenty three, on Axious.
The article says, don't feel too bad if your place
is a little plotted. Even Marie Kondo's house is looking
less than spotless these days.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
She just had a baby.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
The famed author of the life changing Magic of Tidy
Up admittedly doesn't have much time anymore for organizing, especially
after she had her third child. I love this. I
love this, she says, and I direct quote here. My
home is messy, but the way I'm spending my time
is the right way for me at this time, at
this stage of my life. Close quote.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Look, just to be very clear, I'm going to make
a huge assumption here, knowing you the way I do.
You are not making fun of Marry Kondo and her
no mecations of what was feasible. What happens is as
our lives develop and.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Change, and as we have kids, our.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Perspective and the things that are important change. And number three,
it was a she's living our life.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Another quote from her, she said, up until now, I
was a professional tidier, so I did my best to
keep my home tidy at all times. I've kind of
given up on that in a good way for me
now I realize what is important to me is enjoying
spending time with my children at home. It makes me
almost want to cry in both ways because I recognize
the joy of what are we doing when we focus
so much on worshiping the god of clean surfaces and
(02:58):
having everything spotless, speaking span the amount of stress and
anxiety and trauma that we inflict in our family. And
I love that she's recognizing now's not the time. But
I'm also hating it and wanting to cry because I
think of how much pain so many parents have been
through as they're trying to live up to an exceptional
and completely unnecessary standard because they've seen it on Instagram
(03:19):
and it's aspirational. So anyway, that was my that was
my parenting. In the news this week, Marie Condo has
given up on keeping her home tidy. I just had
to share that because I think these things matter. Now
back to the subject of today, Kylie, I'll do better tomorrow.
This is a bit, like I said, where we get
intentional about how we're doing, what we're doing right, what
we're doing wrong, what we want to do better tomorrow.
And I'm guessing that you're not going to talk about housework,
(03:40):
although it wouldn't be great if you did. What do
you want to do better tomorrow? What's your intentional reflection
and recognition of the week that was.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I'm letting out a massive sigh of relief. After the
beginning of the school year. It has been just such
a joy to see the kids at school. I shouldn't
say that, but yes, it has been such a joy
to see the kids go off to school.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Can I tell you what I haven't enjoyed though? I
know that you're halfway through something, but we've got these
two big kids that are at home now because they've
finished school and they're not working in the daytime, and
it's drove me up the wall. Every time I turn around,
it's like, oh, you're still here.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
UNI will start soon enough.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
And we've got a daughter who's about to leave which
is great.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
But what I'm more excited about is looking back on
last year, and while there were so many positive changes
that took place in our lives, there was still so
much upheaval and change for our family and for our
children specifically.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yes, yes, And.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
While so much of it, like I said, was good,
it was hard. It was a hard year for them.
And to see them go into the school playground this
year with an added level of confidence, knowing what to
expect and knowing who their friends are and where it
whe's the safe space for them was just so heartening.
(05:05):
And to have had a year of unbelievable school refusal
and on day two to have miss A come home
and literally say to me she jumped in the car.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I love school.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I was like, where is my child?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Where is my child? Because this is not the child
that I had dealt with for nearly twelve months last year.
It was really really hard. And I recognize we're in
the honeymoon phase of the year and that it could
all go pear shape the next day, next week, next month.
But I am going to revel in this moment where
I have a child who feels so safe and secure
(05:44):
in her space that she's excited to go to school.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
It's probably worth highlighting for those who are listening for
the first time or who are recentably new. Before we
moved to the coast and we've been here for about
a year now, we were in Brisbane for five years
and the kids had four schools in that five years.
We just couldn't quite get the formula right and there
was a lot of our people. So moving here that
sort of continued and this idea that you've mentioned that
(06:09):
the kids are finally settling into the stability of the consistency,
the routine, they know where they should be, they know
what's going on. And the school refusal across the board.
I mean, we had three kids who hated school. We
ended up giving one of our older daughters every Friday
off just as a mental health day every week so
that she could get through the end of term four.
It really has been a big shift, been a beautiful,
(06:32):
really helpful.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Shift well, and I think it's just a wonderful reminder
that when change takes place, it takes time, and so
often we want that instant fix, we want that instant
positive shift that we're looking for or craving for or whatever.
But the reality is all of those changes. It takes
time for it to become an automatic safe space, and
(06:58):
we're seeing the fruits of being a year of stability
and calm and a recognition and knowledge of where we're headed.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Probably worth mentioning at this point as well, many families
will still be struggling with school refusal, kids that don't
want to be there, even though they've been stable and
had the calm that we're now starting to experience at
the end of this month. On Monday night, the twenty
seventh of feb I'm running a webinar called how to
Help When School Sucks. So if you've got kids who
really are struggling, if you're dealing with school refusal and
challenges associated with big emotions around school, join us for
(07:31):
that webinar. You can get all the information on our
Happy Families dot com dot au website or on our
Facebook page, or if you're a Happy Family's member, it's
included in your membership. All of our monthly webinars are
a part of the package when you sign up to
become a Happy Family's member. So how to Help When
School Sucks is coming up on Monday, the twenty seventh
of feb and it might be worth checking out so
(07:53):
you're older better tomorrow. To take her message around this
really is.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I think it really is just a recognition that it
takes time and if we can just appreciate that we're
not always going to be in the hard space that
we find ourselves in and accept it for what it is,
that with time and patience and care, we actually can
(08:18):
move through and you start to reach the peak of
life again. And right now, Miss M's in a peak
and I'm loving every minute of it.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
It's a happy Family's podcast, the podcast of the time,
poor parent who just wants answers now today, I'll do
better tomorrow. And my reflection this week, Kylie is I
pause and talk about what's going on. I want to
celebrate a really big success and I have been talking
about this a fair bit over the last little while
on the podcast, but I'm so dard excited about it
that i want to talk about it again. At the
(08:53):
start of the summer holidays, I made a decision after
talking with you and the kids. They We've got to
kids who have made up their mind that they really
do want to do something about their health, their fitness,
their well being and they decided that running was how
they wanted to do that. We live a k from
the beach, and they want to be able to run
to the beach and run home. They want to be
able to do well in cross country. They just want
(09:14):
to be able to feel good in their bodies and
get their bodies really moving. And our fifteen year old
daughter has decided she wants to be able to run
a half marathon by the end of the year, but
she wanted to be able to run five k's by
the end of the school holidays. And our greade eight daughter,
she just wants to be able to run the three
k's so that she can actually compete in the cross
country that's coming up soon. So I've been working really,
really hard with them. I pulled up the stats from
(09:37):
their first run with me Kylie, and we did a
little over four k's. The first kilometer was ten minutes,
and then the next three We're all around about eight
to eight and a half minutes. I mean, this was
slow and hard and painful a and there was so
much changing. Well, so bear in mind if I go
for a run, I run around about a four minute
(09:58):
fifteen k. If I'm running at four fifteen, and they're
running at eight and a half minutes. They're literally half
the pace that I'm running at, which means that I'm walking.
I mean, it's painful, but I've persisted with them and
they've run at least three times every week since then,
and I told them by the end of the holidays
they'd be able to run five k's. Well, this week,
our fifteen year old daughter went for a run with
(10:20):
me earlier this week and she ran four point eight k's.
She ran the whole way, maybe a two hundred meter
walk in the middle while she caught a breath and
just sort of recovered a little bit, but she ran
four point eight k's and she did it around about
seven minutes a k a little under seven minutes for
most of them, somewhere around that six fifty range. And
I'm looking at this kid, and I'm going, you have
(10:41):
gone from being unable to run to the end of
the street. I mean literally, and the run. If you
were to see this kid running, it was not running.
It wasn't even jogging it it was shuffling. And she
has gone from literally not being able to run to
running four point eight k's at an average of seven
minutes a k. She ran the five ks in in
(11:02):
thirty five minutes, and I'm just flipping out. I'm going
this is unbelievably good. Her little sister, the twelve year old,
she's doing great as well, and she's actually running a
little bit faster, but she doesn't quite have the same stamina.
She's not quite getting the distance. And the most exciting
thing is these two kids sat down with me on
the weekend and you were there and you're you're committed,
but not committed. But I'm going to say that you're committed.
(11:23):
Our fifteen year olds decided she's going to run the
Nooser ten k, and the twelve year old says, she's
going to run the noose of five k, and you're
going to run the Noosa.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I might be this poor crew.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
You're going to run the noose of five or ten k,
we're not sure yet, And I'm going to run whichever
one you're not running, so that each of us can
run with one of the kids. And I'm just so
excited to see them develop a level of competence that
four or five, six weeks ago they did not have.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And they also didn't believe they could do.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
And yeah, and that leads on to the next thing.
Now we're starting to talk about, well, how do we
get you to run that same five k's at six
minutes a k and how do we stretch it from
five k's to seven k's to ten k's. We've got
until May for this daughter who's just run five k's
to push it out to ten. I mean, ten k's
is a long run, and she also she wants to
(12:13):
bring it down and she wants to be able to
do the ten k's in under an hour. So this
is for me. I'm just loving seeing the change. I'm
loving seeing the shift, and what I'm loving seeing most
of all is these kids saying I can't, I can't,
I can't, and I keep teaching them can't means don't
want to, and I keep teaching them that pain is temporary,
and having all of these little motivational talks with them
(12:34):
as they're running and they're crying and I do it
like it, but they are doing it, they're doing it,
and I just I love this thing. We can do
hard things. I'm so excited for it. So that's my
old bed it tomorrow. I don't feel bad that I
haven't ridden my bike for six weeks. I don't feel
bad that I spend all that money on that bike
a year ago, a year and a half ago, and
I haven't ridden it for a long time, and who
(12:55):
knows when I'll ride it again. I miss bike riding
a little bit, but I'm getting instead of bike riding
is so much more valuable. It's like Marie condo. It's
nice to have a tidy house, but it's much nicer
to have the time with the kids. For me, it's
nice to be able to go for a big bike ride,
but it's much nicer to see the kids running three, four,
five and hopefully soon ten k's dorm and we've gone
(13:18):
full circle on the podcast. How do you like that?
So I'll do better tomorrow. We really hope that this
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(13:38):
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time poor parent who just wants answers now.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
To see them go into the school playground this year
with an added level of confidence knowing what to expect
was just so heartening.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
And now here's the stars of our show, My Mom
and Dad.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Every Friday and the Happy Families Podcast. Me, Doc, Justin
Coilson and Kylie. That's you, Me, Yes, you talk about
talk about what's going well to give us surprise huh
and what's not. It's called I'll do Better Tomorrow. It's
our opportunity to reflect me intentional about parents. But before
we get there, Kylie, I want to share with you
some news that's popped up on the Axios news channel
(00:49):
that I think is going to be revelatory. Revelatory. Is
that revelatory? Revelatory? I knew I said it wrong. Revelatory
for parents around the world who love Marie Condo. Do
you like Marie Condo?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Who is she?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Maria Condo? Marie Kondo is the is the minimalist. Yeah,
the minimalists make the house perfect, keep everything looking immaculate.
Person the person who is responsible for more stress of
mothers around the world. Than perhaps anyone else, because her
houses are immaculate and her designs are stunning, and everyone says, oh,
what my house to look like? That she is the
one with the Instagram that everyone goes, oh like housekeeping
(01:25):
goals Marie Kondo.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, that's why stour away from it.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Okay, So she's in the news this past week. This
is from January twenty eight, twenty twenty three, on Axious.
The article says, don't feel too bad if your place
is a little plotted. Even Marie Kondo's house is looking
less than spotless these days.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
She just had a baby.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
The famed author of the life changing Magic of Tidy
Up admittedly doesn't have much time anymore for organizing, especially
after she had her third child. I love this. I
love this, she says, and I direct quote here. My
home is messy, but the way I'm spending my time
is the right way for me at this time, at
this stage of my life. Close quote.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Look, just to be very clear, I'm going to make
a huge assumption here, knowing you the way I do.
You are not making fun of Marry Kondo and her
no mecations of what was feasible. What happens is as
our lives develop and.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Change, and as we have kids, our.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Perspective and the things that are important change. And number three,
it was a she's living our life.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Another quote from her, she said, up until now, I
was a professional tidier, so I did my best to
keep my home tidy at all times. I've kind of
given up on that in a good way for me
now I realize what is important to me is enjoying
spending time with my children at home. It makes me
almost want to cry in both ways because I recognize
the joy of what are we doing when we focus
so much on worshiping the god of clean surfaces and
(02:58):
having everything spotless, speaking span the amount of stress and
anxiety and trauma that we inflict in our family. And
I love that she's recognizing now's not the time. But
I'm also hating it and wanting to cry because I
think of how much pain so many parents have been
through as they're trying to live up to an exceptional
and completely unnecessary standard because they've seen it on Instagram
(03:19):
and it's aspirational. So anyway, that was my that was
my parenting. In the news this week, Marie Condo has
given up on keeping her home tidy. I just had
to share that because I think these things matter. Now
back to the subject of today, Kylie, I'll do better tomorrow.
This is a bit, like I said, where we get
intentional about how we're doing, what we're doing right, what
we're doing wrong, what we want to do better tomorrow.
And I'm guessing that you're not going to talk about housework,
(03:40):
although it wouldn't be great if you did. What do
you want to do better tomorrow? What's your intentional reflection
and recognition of the week that was.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I'm letting out a massive sigh of relief. After the
beginning of the school year. It has been just such
a joy to see the kids at school. I shouldn't
say that, but yes, it has been such a joy
to see the kids go off to school.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Can I tell you what I haven't enjoyed though? I
know that you're halfway through something, but we've got these
two big kids that are at home now because they've
finished school and they're not working in the daytime, and
it's drove me up the wall. Every time I turn around,
it's like, oh, you're still here.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
UNI will start soon enough.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
And we've got a daughter who's about to leave which
is great.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
But what I'm more excited about is looking back on
last year, and while there were so many positive changes
that took place in our lives, there was still so
much upheaval and change for our family and for our
children specifically.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yes, yes, And.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
While so much of it, like I said, was good,
it was hard. It was a hard year for them.
And to see them go into the school playground this
year with an added level of confidence, knowing what to
expect and knowing who their friends are and where it
whe's the safe space for them was just so heartening.
(05:05):
And to have had a year of unbelievable school refusal
and on day two to have miss A come home
and literally say to me she jumped in the car.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I love school.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I was like, where is my child?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Where is my child? Because this is not the child
that I had dealt with for nearly twelve months last year.
It was really really hard. And I recognize we're in
the honeymoon phase of the year and that it could
all go pear shape the next day, next week, next month.
But I am going to revel in this moment where
I have a child who feels so safe and secure
(05:44):
in her space that she's excited to go to school.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
It's probably worth highlighting for those who are listening for
the first time or who are recentably new. Before we
moved to the coast and we've been here for about
a year now, we were in Brisbane for five years
and the kids had four schools in that five years.
We just couldn't quite get the formula right and there
was a lot of our people. So moving here that
sort of continued and this idea that you've mentioned that
(06:09):
the kids are finally settling into the stability of the consistency,
the routine, they know where they should be, they know
what's going on. And the school refusal across the board.
I mean, we had three kids who hated school. We
ended up giving one of our older daughters every Friday
off just as a mental health day every week so
that she could get through the end of term four.
It really has been a big shift, been a beautiful,
(06:32):
really helpful.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Shift well, and I think it's just a wonderful reminder
that when change takes place, it takes time, and so
often we want that instant fix, we want that instant
positive shift that we're looking for or craving for or whatever.
But the reality is all of those changes. It takes
time for it to become an automatic safe space, and
(06:58):
we're seeing the fruits of being a year of stability
and calm and a recognition and knowledge of where we're headed.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Probably worth mentioning at this point as well, many families
will still be struggling with school refusal, kids that don't
want to be there, even though they've been stable and
had the calm that we're now starting to experience at
the end of this month. On Monday night, the twenty
seventh of feb I'm running a webinar called how to
Help When School Sucks. So if you've got kids who
really are struggling, if you're dealing with school refusal and
challenges associated with big emotions around school, join us for
(07:31):
that webinar. You can get all the information on our
Happy Families dot com dot au website or on our
Facebook page, or if you're a Happy Family's member, it's
included in your membership. All of our monthly webinars are
a part of the package when you sign up to
become a Happy Family's member. So how to Help When
School Sucks is coming up on Monday, the twenty seventh
of feb and it might be worth checking out so
(07:53):
you're older better tomorrow. To take her message around this
really is.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I think it really is just a recognition that it
takes time and if we can just appreciate that we're
not always going to be in the hard space that
we find ourselves in and accept it for what it is,
that with time and patience and care, we actually can
(08:18):
move through and you start to reach the peak of
life again. And right now, Miss M's in a peak
and I'm loving every minute of it.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
It's a happy Family's podcast, the podcast of the time,
poor parent who just wants answers now today, I'll do
better tomorrow. And my reflection this week, Kylie is I
pause and talk about what's going on. I want to
celebrate a really big success and I have been talking
about this a fair bit over the last little while
on the podcast, but I'm so dard excited about it
that i want to talk about it again. At the
(08:53):
start of the summer holidays, I made a decision after
talking with you and the kids. They We've got to
kids who have made up their mind that they really
do want to do something about their health, their fitness,
their well being and they decided that running was how
they wanted to do that. We live a k from
the beach, and they want to be able to run
to the beach and run home. They want to be
able to do well in cross country. They just want
(09:14):
to be able to feel good in their bodies and
get their bodies really moving. And our fifteen year old
daughter has decided she wants to be able to run
a half marathon by the end of the year, but
she wanted to be able to run five k's by
the end of the school holidays. And our greade eight daughter,
she just wants to be able to run the three
k's so that she can actually compete in the cross
country that's coming up soon. So I've been working really,
really hard with them. I pulled up the stats from
(09:37):
their first run with me Kylie, and we did a
little over four k's. The first kilometer was ten minutes,
and then the next three We're all around about eight
to eight and a half minutes. I mean, this was
slow and hard and painful a and there was so
much changing. Well, so bear in mind if I go
for a run, I run around about a four minute
(09:58):
fifteen k. If I'm running at four fifteen, and they're
running at eight and a half minutes. They're literally half
the pace that I'm running at, which means that I'm walking.
I mean, it's painful, but I've persisted with them and
they've run at least three times every week since then,
and I told them by the end of the holidays
they'd be able to run five k's. Well, this week,
our fifteen year old daughter went for a run with
(10:20):
me earlier this week and she ran four point eight k's.
She ran the whole way, maybe a two hundred meter
walk in the middle while she caught a breath and
just sort of recovered a little bit, but she ran
four point eight k's and she did it around about
seven minutes a k a little under seven minutes for
most of them, somewhere around that six fifty range. And
I'm looking at this kid, and I'm going, you have
(10:41):
gone from being unable to run to the end of
the street. I mean literally, and the run. If you
were to see this kid running, it was not running.
It wasn't even jogging it it was shuffling. And she
has gone from literally not being able to run to
running four point eight k's at an average of seven
minutes a k. She ran the five ks in in
(11:02):
thirty five minutes, and I'm just flipping out. I'm going
this is unbelievably good. Her little sister, the twelve year old,
she's doing great as well, and she's actually running a
little bit faster, but she doesn't quite have the same stamina.
She's not quite getting the distance. And the most exciting
thing is these two kids sat down with me on
the weekend and you were there and you're you're committed,
but not committed. But I'm going to say that you're committed.
(11:23):
Our fifteen year olds decided she's going to run the
Nooser ten k, and the twelve year old says, she's
going to run the noose of five k, and you're
going to run the Noosa.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I might be this poor crew.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
You're going to run the noose of five or ten k,
we're not sure yet, And I'm going to run whichever
one you're not running, so that each of us can
run with one of the kids. And I'm just so
excited to see them develop a level of competence that
four or five, six weeks ago they did not have.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And they also didn't believe they could do.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
And yeah, and that leads on to the next thing.
Now we're starting to talk about, well, how do we
get you to run that same five k's at six
minutes a k and how do we stretch it from
five k's to seven k's to ten k's. We've got
until May for this daughter who's just run five k's
to push it out to ten. I mean, ten k's
is a long run, and she also she wants to
(12:13):
bring it down and she wants to be able to
do the ten k's in under an hour. So this
is for me. I'm just loving seeing the change. I'm
loving seeing the shift, and what I'm loving seeing most
of all is these kids saying I can't, I can't,
I can't, and I keep teaching them can't means don't
want to, and I keep teaching them that pain is temporary,
and having all of these little motivational talks with them
(12:34):
as they're running and they're crying and I do it
like it, but they are doing it, they're doing it,
and I just I love this thing. We can do
hard things. I'm so excited for it. So that's my
old bed it tomorrow. I don't feel bad that I
haven't ridden my bike for six weeks. I don't feel
bad that I spend all that money on that bike
a year ago, a year and a half ago, and
I haven't ridden it for a long time, and who
(12:55):
knows when I'll ride it again. I miss bike riding
a little bit, but I'm getting instead of bike riding
is so much more valuable. It's like Marie condo. It's
nice to have a tidy house, but it's much nicer
to have the time with the kids. For me, it's
nice to be able to go for a big bike ride,
but it's much nicer to see the kids running three, four,
five and hopefully soon ten k's dorm and we've gone
(13:18):
full circle on the podcast. How do you like that?
So I'll do better tomorrow. We really hope that this
has been a little bit of inspo for you in
the way that you interact with your family across the
weekend and next week. Thanks so much for listening to
the Happy Families podcast. We appreciate that you choose to
spend your time with us. We know that you've got
so many things that you could choose to do, and
(13:38):
you're here with us, so we hope that it's adding
value and inspiration for your family in your life. The
Happy Family's podcast is produced by Justin Ruland from Bridge Media.
Craig Bruce is our executive producer, and if you would
like more information about how to make your family happy,
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