Here is your straight to business podcast link newsletter so you can catch up on July and August and hear what is to come in September. I didn’t send a newsletter at the end of July so I apologize for the lengthy July AND August catch up. Unfortunately for you, I was on summer time. Fortunately for you, I didn’t forget you and am sharing now? Forgive me!

July & August Catch Up:

July 18—a loose Marie Kondo style of folding, how to not overstuff your drawers, when to do a seasonal refresh, and other things ⬇️

July 18 PAID SUBSCRIBER EPISODE—kids watering plants, favorite flowers to grow and cut, bible in the bathroom ⬇️

July 31—stainless steel coffee lids, the best swim suit I've ever worn, kid coffee mugs, and more. A little link action for the summer and also food for thought as you enter gift season and want to plan ahead some lists of items for stockings or Easter baskets. ⬇️

August 8—Good ol’ fashion brain dump, preparing the entryway school zone, setting up a plan for an after school reset ⬇️

August 21—The episode itself is FREE for everyone this month! But there is a link to the editable canva morning routine and job board docs for only paid subscribers! ⬇️

August 28—get out the door on time (enough) and scream at your kids less ⬇️

What’s Coming Up in September:

Designing an Arts & Crafts Space Kids Can Actually Use

Do this one thing now and your December will thank you (PAID MEMBER EPISODE)

Saving, Storing, and Letting Go of Kids’ Art (Without Guilt)

Drink Water Eat Snacks newsletters that went out in August!

the blackhead and the triathlon—a little bumper sticker is not a good enough prize for surviving the fight of your life

Fall Season: 3 Things I’m Letting Go, 3 Things I’m Holding On To—and some summer flower photos

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Episode Talking Points:

10 Things We Do At Night To Make School Mornings Easier

1. Kid bedroom tidy (kid task)

2. Reset main living spaces

3. Reset kitchen

4. Fill waters

5. Quick peek at meals for tomorrow

6. Prep coffee

7. Lunches

8. Calendar check

9. Weather check

10. Outfits & outerwear

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Three things in this episode:

1. What is a morning checklist and how to use it

2. What are “kid to do” lists and how are they used

3. Our new job board for paid jobs

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Welcome to the Prepared Enough podcast, a space where we simplify motherhood, nurture our families, and design homes that help us raise independent and helpful children.

Three things in this episode:

1. Good ol’ fashion brain dump

2. Preparing the entryway school zone

3. Setting up a plan for an after school reset

Episode Talking Points:

3 Things To Do In August To Make Back To School Easier

You don’t need to reorganize your entire home and all your systems before school starts but it is helpful to prepare the few systems that are going to help reduce the most friction each school day. Back to school is always going to feel busier and maybe even a bit overwhelming. But doing a few simple things can make it feel a little easier!

Three things:

1. Good ol’ fashion brain dump

2. Preparing the entryway school zone

3. Setting up a plan for an after school reset

Remember, the back to school transition is always busy. You aren’t trying to eliminate the chaos completely. You’re simply preparing your home to carry more of the mental load so you don’t have to.

Small changes to your environment create big changes in your family’s independence.

Next episode is on morning routines. And the last episode for the month of August is the little things we do at night to make the next school day morning easier.

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• *** A Few Open coaching slots for Fall! ***

• Visit my Amazon storefront. Using this helps keep the podcast up and running!

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• Interested in becoming a paid member?

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Welcome to the Prepared Enough podcast, a space where we simplify motherhood, nurture our families, and design homes that help us raise independent and helpful children.

Episode Talking Points:

1. Stainless steel coffee lids (affiliate)— Hanna from Yapping All The Way showed me these and I am forever grateful
   

2. Chaco sandals — flip flops I’ve worn for over a decade and look brand new
   

3. Pocket bible — I keep in my car
   

4. Livy & Kate swim suit. Here is the one I got — Top and bottom
   

5. Kids coffee mugs (affiliate) — a yeti rambler 12 oz, the top is great for younger kids
   

6. The Earthling Co shampoo and conditioner bars & I use it with Maui brand conditioner from Target
   

7. Cute notebook from Target that I use as a hopeful family log book
   

8. This target t shirt is my FAVORITE t shirt I own but they don’t have it in stock. I’m hoping it’s like those tanks that are from there that come back every year.

9. Plant supports (affiliate) that work perfectly and are affordable
   

10. Letter Tray for Kids Art Drying Rack (affiliate) — large, cheap, and sturdy enough. wish I had this as a teacher
    

11. Small wooden loom for kid weaving — wayyyyy better than making one out of cardboard.
    

12. Cute yellow hanging planters (affiliate) — plastic but super cute and it has a self draining system for indoor use and the plugs can be taken out for outdoor use. Three pack—I have one indoor, one outdoor, and one not in use….what plant should I get….no…..but if I were to be getting a hanging plant, what would I want to buy….?
    

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Welcome to the Prepared Enough podcast, a space where we simplify motherhood, nurture our families, and design homes that help us raise independent and helpful children.

Three things in this episode:

1. kids watering plants

2. favorite flowers to grow and cut

3. bible in the bathroom

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Welcome to the Prepared Enough podcast, a space where we simplify motherhood, nurture our families, and design homes that help us raise independent and helpful children.

Three things in this episode:

1. Loose Marie Kondo style of folding

2. How to not overstuff your drawers

3. When to do a seasonal refresh

and other things

Episode Talking Points:

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Upcoming podcasts:

1. 12 things that are working and 6 things that need tweaking (paid member episode)

2. 12 products i’m loving this summer

Apparently I’m into the number 12 this month.

Episode Talking Points

• Why a loose Marie Kondo ISH organizational method works for us with kid clothing organization. For the girls, they share the same size clothing so they just share a full dresser.

• Keeping outdoor clothing in a separate location, even extras.

• Where dirty laundry goes

• Picking out outfits ahead of time

• Laundry frequency & rhythms

• Laundry roles (adult vs kid)

• How kids can help

• Storage bins for clothes

• Case for seasonal swapping out

• When to do a seasonal refresh

• What items go into storage

• Saving sentimental items

• Grow in bins

Resources & Links:

• Visit my Amazon storefront. Using this helps keep the podcast up and running!

• Come say hi! I really like writing to you via my newsletter!

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• Interested in taking a peek into our personal home?

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Here are all the catch ups from last month and what’s coming up this month!

June’s Podcast Episodes:

Garage Habits That Actually Work (episode 29)—Super simple bike stands you need, a magic blower, park it in front of the garage expectations, and more

3 Independent Habits to Teach Before School Starts (episode 30)—quality bed making, learning to fold laundry, and independence with dishes

(This is a paid member episode. To become a paid member and listen to this episode and all previous paid episodes, click this link. It’s $40 for the full year!)

10 Summer Decisions I Only Make Once (episode 31)—favorite natural sunscreen, summer schooling materials, the only color swim suit we buy, and more

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What’s Coming Up This July On The Pod:

Kids Clothing: Organizing for Independence, Daily Routines, Seasonal Swapping (episode 32)

What’s Working, What Needs Tweaking, What To Do About It: Summer Edition (episode 33) PAID

(Unknown number of) Things I’m Loving This Summer (episode 34)

Newsletters that went out!

a story about a wild white tulip & a due date of a lost baby—a story about miscarriage and an unexpected flower and a sibling and dates and coincidences that cannot be ignored

drink water. eat chives. and remember to work hard at the work worth doing.—lizards starve themselves until they are allowed to work for their food, and other things

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1. favorite natural sunscreen

2. summer schooling materials

3. the only color swim suit we buy

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10 things I decide once to help lessen summer decisions.

1. Orange swim suits for all

2. Sunscreen from Raw Elements

3. Dollar store sunglasses for littles

4. All kids get one pair of crocks and one tennis shoe

5. Mini lunch boxes for picnics

6. Owala water bottles

7. Decide on pool / beach / picnic bag once. Pack it. Don’t unpack it (ish).

8. Decide screen expectations once.

9. Reading and handwriting materials from The Good and the Beautiful—we use the Booster Cards (or whatever each grade level teacher reference is called) along with the associated book packs for each grade level. I linked to kinder for example. We also love their handwriting books.

10. Summer workbooks—IXL Ultimate Summer Workbooks. This year we are using the books for the summers between grades Pre-K & K, grades K & 1, and grades 2 & 3 (affiliate links).

Next year, I’d like to create some better uniformity around food and meals.

What to expect in July for podcasts:

1. Kids Clothing: Organizing for Independence, Daily Routines, Seasonal Swapping

2. What’s Working, What Needs Tweaking, What To Do About It: Summer Edition (a casual and personal conversation exclusively for paid members)

3. Things I’m Loving This Summer (products, schedules, books, whatever else is good and fun)

Talk next time.
Drink water. Eat Snacks.
<3 Tash

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Welcome to the Prepared Enough podcast, a space where we simplify motherhood, nurture our families, and design homes that help us raise independent and helpful children.

This summer, we are focusing on independence in three big areas:

• Morning Room Reset (making beds, opening curtains, reset space)

• Laundry (putting away clean clothes, folding own laundry)

• Dishes (clearing plates, food to chicken bin, rinse dishes, dishes away in dishwasher)

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Welcome to the Prepared Enough podcast, a space where we simplify motherhood, nurture our families, and design homes that help us raise independent and helpful children.

Three things in this episode:

1. Super simple bike stands you need

2. A magic blower

3. Park it in front of the garage expectations

Episode Talking Points:

Organization:

• Hooks, nails, or screws in the wall down low for helmets

• DIY bike stands

• Charging center

• Separate area for equipment that is not being used

• Pack away winter and pull out summer

Generally, organizing the garage is going to look similar to organizing kid spaces indoors.

• Low shelves

• Low hooks

• Bins or tubs you can see inside

• Keep like with like

Habits and routines

• Use your magic blower

• Kid expectations: clean what you can and whatever you need help with, park in front of the garage.

• Expectations for parent: Straighten out and general tidy when messy. Put away large items parked in front of the garage.

Resources & Links:

• DIY individual bike stand

• Visit my Amazon storefront. Using this helps keep the podcast up and running!

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Just checking in on the interest level of having monthly office hours. There are only a few of us paid members here, but I’d still love to open up monthly live office hours and answer questions related to kid spaces and home organization and toy organization especially, etc.

My thoughts are to open up a Q&A thread here and you can do one of two things:

1. Comment any kid space home organization questions below.

2. Email any kid space home organization questions to info.natashamila@gmail.com. This is particularly useful if you’d like to send along a picture to show your space and ask your specific question.

I can’t wait to see what you ask! I love organizing and figuring out specific problems!

I will answer any comments or emails in a video in June!

Natasha :)

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Welcome to the Prepared Enough podcast, a space where we simplify motherhood, nurture our families, and design homes that help us raise independent and helpful children.

Three things in this episode:

🚗 The three car zones.

❄️☀️ What to include for different weather seasons.

⭐️ Our favorite car organizers.

Episode Transcript:

Hello hello! Welcome to episode 27 of the Prepared Enough podcast. It is the month of May! Happy mothers day mamas! We are wrapping up the school year and we all know how that can be so busy. We had a concert the Tuesday, it’s teacher appreciation week which means gifts and dress up, and its ABC countdown with all kinds of days to remember dressing up for, and then there are end of the year teacher gifts, and all the things to head into summer. And then of course we are rolling right into a camping weekend and then me running a summer camp for a week that I have yet to plan. Somewhere in there we have to get our seedlings weathering and growing and then planted in the ground and the annual seeds planted and the bushes ripped out and a tree cut down. Ya know. We just have a little bit busy of an end of May here. So anyway I’m going to lead all my whining here right into the podcast by saying, the last thing I want to have adding to my more stressful May is a messy chaos filled car.

When I think of my car, I really do like to think of it as an extension of my home. I do live in the thing for a good amount of time each day. It is not just transportation. It is a daily use environment that can either ruin your day or support your routines.

So I’m going to share today how we personally keep our car organized and what goes in the car depending on the season. And then on our monthly paid podcast later this month, we are going to talk more about how we keep the car tidied and cleaned with year round, monthly ish, and weekly ish systems. I’m doing that thing where I’m using those trendy words like monthly, weekly, and systems so that you think it’s super official. But I promise you, it’s much more chill and as needed that I’m making it sound. But still just as good because if the end goal is a relatively tidied and cleaned car most of the time, we’ve got that covered!

Okay anyway, but today we are mostly going to chat about what to keep in your car depending on the season and how much is too much!

So let’s talk about our mindset over our vehicles first.

Your car is a functional space that you have to care for. It is something you use more regularly than a closet and so you should treat this space quite well. It’s like a bathroom. You use it every day. And it will get crazy if you do not care for it like you do.

Similar to an area of your home, you are going to need this space accessible and simple for kids to use and be able to maintain.

So we can think of our car space in three zones.

1. The driver zone (aka the mom zone)

2. The kid zone (aka back seat areas)

3. The trunk zone (this is your seasonal hub)

So what to include in the driver aka mom zone.

Here is what I like to keep in the front of the vehicle in the center console.

• hand sanitizer

• hand lotion

• chapstick

• tissue

• phone charger

• gum

• mints

• a spare $20

• coins

• pen

• permanent marker

• hair rubber band

• tire pressure gauge

• sunglasses

• I usually keep the bible verse I’m in the middle of memorizing

• and a little first aid kit

In our glove box we have

• extra diapers, or pull ups, or a spare underwear depending on the season of potty training

• baby wipes

• all the necessary car paperwork

• and because it just feels like tradition—a few spare napkins from probably Culvers or McDonalds

In my drivers car door, I keep

• a grip strength thingy for fun

• and my husband keeps a car code reader thing

That’s a lot of stuff and it’s also not that much. You should certainly be able to fit all that and any extras in your front spaces.

Okay now moving to the Kid Zone (aka the back seat area)

Now we have a mini van and have bucket seats. This is nice for our family because we have four kids so everyone has enough space. We keep our car toys and kid items in organizers that go on the back of the car seats. We have two, one for the bucket seat row of kids and one for the backseat row of kids.

We keep just a few toys, sunglasses, usually some more wet wipes on the side where we keep a little potty chair on the floor. Yes we keep a potty chair in our mini van and yes I use it too. And I highly recommend. It’s really convenient. Everyone just goes as needed before running errands or outings and then we don’t have to use the bathroom places all the time. Obviously we still use the bathroom when we need to out and about but this really just streamlines our errands most days. It is especially useful when potty training little girls. We typically potty train at age 1 so there was no getting around this. Out boys usually just quick pee outside the car and sometimes on the potty chair depending on where we are and how well we can hide in the parking lot ha!

That’s it for kid stuff.

If they bring their waters or a snack into the car, we store the garbage in the driver’s side door so that I remember to empty it out when we get home in the garage garbage. And they bring their waters back inside.

Moving on to the trunk zone.

This is where we keep seasonal items and other important things. I keep another car organizer here. It took me forever to buy this and I can’t believe I didn’t own it sooner. I finally bought something that goes on the back of the seats here too. Now this works because of the trunk of a mini van and it being a deep trunk. If I had a different vehicle, I’d probably get a little tote kind of organizer for the trunk.

Anyway, we always keep

• a baby carrier

• a picnic blanket

• grocery bags

• when I had babies that we’d go out and about with in a car seat, I’d leave their car seat cover thing in here and a baby wrap too

• we keep extra clothes in here and some extra plastic garbage bags

• we keep an umbrella too

• and jumper cables

• in the winter, we keep an extra hat and mittens for each kid, just the cheap kind because we hardly ever need them so they’re just in there if absolutely needed. I do keep a few hand warmers too. We also keep an extra warm blanket. Ya know because my mom told me we need in in case of ever being stranded in our car which is highly unlikely but I just still do it because I have the car space. Wipes will freeze in winter months, so I tend to take those out in the winter and keep more in my purse / bag. I do keep a backup in the car so that they just are there and can be melted with water if really needed. And of course in the winter you need an ice scraper and brush.

• in the summer, we keep sand toys in the trunk for last minute beach lunches because we live right by a beach so these are a must for us. And sometimes for this same reason we keep a plastic bag to fill with water to rinse off feet and an extra towel. I also keep an extra sunscreen stick because they don’t get too melty in the trunk as a just in case. Oh, and I keep a wet dry bag in the trunk to put wet swim suits in!

• There is nothing special for the fall or the spring that we add in. these are just in between seasons for us and we just keep winter stuff in there until it can go out and vice versa with summer stuff.

And that is that for what is all in our car! I feel like I just listed a giant list off for you and it is probably all stuff you have in your car already except maybe the toilet. Anyway, we’ll get more into the routines and systems of maintaining this car space in our paid episode later this month but I’ll just share a few short things.

We regularly tidy up the toys that have been tossed on the floor. And I often throw garbage away, like at the very least, weekly.

Kids are going to step on whatever is on the floor so you do have to get into the routine of teaching your kids to pick up the stuff that they see to be helpful and just quick putting into wherever it goes. This is why having organizers of sorts in the car are actually really helpful because they give toys and other items a “home spot” so that everyone knows where things go.

Now I listed what fits in my car. It might not all fit in yours if you drive a smaller vehicle. If you overpack your car, it will feel chaotic so you might have to pair this list down big time and that is okay. Most of what we have in our car is not needed and we could pair down a lot but we just don’t need to because we have the space and I like it in there as a just in case. But if it’s overpacked it will get crazy and messy and more chaotic faster.

You should just keep what you normally need on a weekly basis in your car. It should serve you and not just be a place of clutter. Your car should serve your purpose of getting from point A to point B with happy enough people.

We don’t like to keep everything in the car so to help out, I usually keep grab and go bags in our back entryway. In the summer, we have a beach bag and a pool bag. If we have things like swim lessons or other activities, those all have their own bags that are ready to grab. So yeah, we just tend to keep other items that are needed for common outings in ready to go bags. And then we pack a normal bag for other outings like a normal person.

Alright! Hopefully you got some ideas for your car from this episode. Remember as always, take whatever ideas you need and leave the rest!

We will see you in the end of May inside our paid episode for the month and then we will be back in June to chat children’s clothing dun dun dun…. the never ending battle of sizes and bins and storage and swapping out.

Okay that is all! Drink water, eat snacks.

Talk next time.

Tash

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🎙️ Toy Cleanup Routines With Less Power Struggles (episode 26)

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Three things in this episode:

1. Three daily reset times save my sanity, here’s exactly how we do them.

2. How to set up toys so clean up comes easier.

3. Kids maintain organization. Adults curate.

Episode Transcript:

Hello hello. We are on episode number 26 of the Prepared Enough podcast. This is our first paid member only episode. So thank you for being here and supporting this space. You will now be getting one exclusive episode each month. If you are listening and are confused it’s probably because you are hearing a free preview! If you want to sign up to become a paid member so you can hear this episode in it’s entirety, you can find the membership link in the show notes or go to natashamila.com and you can find it there too.

Okay moving on. We are chatting about cleaning up toys today. Now, I’d like to preface this episode by saying that I am not perfect. I’d like to start every episode by saying this. HA! There are many people who organize and clean differently and it works just as well for them and their families. I am going to remind you that all of my podcasts are meant to be more of a personal blog type of vibe where I give you some ideas that have worked well for our family and you can take what you need and leave what you don’t!

SO today we’re going to go through a few ideas—

1. We’re going to talk briefly about why having less toys is beneficial for clean up. The answer is kind of obvious. Less to clean up = better clean. But we’re going to touch on that a little more.

2. We’re going to talk about having three daily reset times.

3. We’ll remind you of a few toy setup systems that make cleanup more manageable for kids

and so that we can prevent all the dumping.

4. I’ll give you one big play mindset suggestion to pass on to your children.

5. We’ll go through age appropriate cleaning expectations.

6. We’ll chat about what to do when cleanup overwhelm does inevitably happen here and there or with younger children.

7. And lastly, we’ll chat about the quarterly (ish) adult toy maintenance.

That’s 7 things ya all. This episode is full of ideas for you to pull from. It is going to be a long episode.

Okay so let’s dive into the first topic of conversation and that is—

why having less toys is beneficial for clean up

When there are too many toys, kids are constantly making decisions instead of actually playing. They’re just skimming through the options, dumping everything out, maybe picking one thing and then moving on, getting curious about what they might find in the next bucket of stuff. Sometimes they’re just looking for an item and they can’t find it. That is more of a combination of a quantity problem and and organization problem.

But most often, when you have too many toys, too many toys get moved around or taken out. This makes clean up really challenging for kids because there is just so much to clean up. It’s overwhelming visually and just like adults on the days where their to do lists are out of control, kids just don’t know where to start and so they freeze. What a freeze up looks like for a kid is different than an adult. Most often, they just end up playing with something in front of them because the rest of the stuff is just too much to think about cleaning.

Less stuff = less stuff to dump or move around = less overwhelm and easier and more manageable clean up efforts.

Another pro of having less things in their play space is that kids generally tend to take better care of what they have. Each item is a little more special because it can’t easily be replaced.

We’re just talking from the kid perspective today BUT obviously less toys everywhere lowers your mental load as the parent. Win win.

So how many toys is too many? I can’t give you that answer. It depends on the age of the child. The space you have in your home. The lifestyle you want to live. The kind of toys. There are so many factors. But less is almost always more, so when in doubt declutter some things. Or a lot of things.

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Why play breaks down in poorly designed, overstuffed spaces

• Too many choices = shallow play

• Overstuffed bins encourage dumping, not creativity

Accessibility = independence

• Toys at child height vs adult storage

• Open shelves, shallow bins vs deep bins

• lids, labels / see through bins, and height

• Matching the toy to the child’s current abilities

• Visibility for less mess (usually BIG mess is made when they are looking for stuff)

  • Puzzles stored vertically

  • Blocks in shallow trays

  • Dress-up items on hooks

Arrangement matters more than square footage

• Creating “zones” in different rooms with furniture arrangement and rugs

• Bedrooms or no?

• Different aged kids and where to keep choking hazards

Fewer toys = deeper play

• Some like rotation but I think it’s just another chore. Some people like to let toys “rest” to renew interest later and this is a good idea. I just don’t like to think about it on my to do list. So I keep everything out and if something needs to be renewed interest wise then I do a little rearranging of the toys on the shelves and what not and place this toy in an exciting and new location.

• Choose toys that invite multiple uses—open ended toys

Following your child’s natural play patterns

• Watch where your kids gravitate, what do they play with regularly and how can you expand on that by ridding of other toys that are less used or refreshing the toys by putting them in new spots, etc.

• adjust based on use, not aesthetics. Let go of Pinterest-perfect play spaces.

But really—
Choose one play space and remove half the toys. Watch what happens. Your kids will play better in that space, I promise. Each item looks more exciting to them when it is cleared out a bit and has carefully chosen toys or books or whatever.

Okay so that is it for today! If you decide to become a paid member, I’ll see you later this month but otherwise, I’ll see you in the beginning of May!

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😵‍💫 save your sanity as a kitchen dwelling mama

🙌 work together to save time in the kitchen

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Hello hello. Welcome to another episode of Prepared Enough. How are you? We are good. We had another snowstorm in Wisconsin this past week. But it should all melt by the weekend with slightly higher temps. So we’re enjoying hopefully the last go about at winter here. Our tulips are growing up through the snow and earth knows what’s up so spring must be on it’s way, right? Easter is soon and every year all these cute spring dresses come about and I want to wear them and I buy them for my girls and then 99% of the years we end up wearing winter jackets. But I swear, if there was any hope comparable to the hope we should have in the resurrection, it is the hope of midwestern women buying spring dresses to wear on Easter.

OOOOOOOOkkk, so it is mid March here and on this podcast we’re still talking about the kitchen. Two weeks ago we kind of walked through creating a lower kitchen cabinet for young children and this week we’re going to tackle talking about 5 helpful routines in the kitchen and a bit about how those can grow with your children.

Throughout this episode I’m not going to place specific ages on things. I have a really hard time doing that because it really just depends on the child and how they have been raised so far and what has been expected and their personality. So I’m going to tell you generally how different routines can grow with your children and you can place your own child where you think they are capable on that scale.

Alright, normally I write up the podcast episodes a little bit better than I did this week. I just ran out of time and scribbled the bare minimum down before popping on this microphone to record. Usually that means nothing too horrible so we’re rolling with it but if I have to backtrack on any thoughts, please forgive me in advance.

SO here she goes—the five routines we’re going to talk about:

We are going to talk about

1. Setting the table

2. Clearing the table after meals

3. Getting water

4. Getting snacks

5. The dishes

I chose not to include cooking contributions into this episode because 1. I am personally bad at including my kids in cooking and 2. I do feel like it is a more difficult area to allow children to regularly be contributing with for many families with children of multiple ages. I don’t think this is a reason not to involve your kids in the cooking of meals. I absolutely think you should and I should definitely get better at this. Whenever I am better at this my kids thrive way more than I expected and we have a far more wonderful time together than expected. I just think this topic is something we could talk about for longer than we have during this short podcast episode.

Okay I’m skipping cooking for today but I’ll go through these five different routines I listed before and give a few ideas for each on how you can progress helpfulness depending on the age and ability of your young child.

Some of them are of course a little more involved than others. But all of these are kitchen routines that are separate from cooking that can

1. be a great way for your children to help out and practice helping out in the kitchen before really getting into the bigger parts of cooking.

2. can really be a big sanity saver for you as the parent because we all know how many hours of each day we spend walking around our kitchens.

I do really believe that the kitchen is a great place to teach contribution because meals and snacks happen multiple times a day with natural start and end points. This is the kind of contribution that can be built into routines really easily.

I wanted to also note that I often have higher expectations for my kids in the summers when it comes to contributing around the house than during the school year. This is solely a matter of time. Sometimes I just have to wait to teach a new skill until we have the time to better practice the beginning parts of that skill in the summer months. I say this not because I think you should do this, I say this because I actually kind of don’t like that I do this and maybe you’re like me. I just notice that by the spring here, my kids get super lax on home contributions. They get lazy. I get angry. And none of it is very helpful to our family unit and every year it gives big brownie points to homeschooling families. HA! We are currently public school dwellers but we are never opposed to other schooling options, it’s just a matter of year by year choice.

Okay so onto these five routines.

Setting the table is where we will start.

Here are some ideas on how you can progress helpfulness for setting the table:

Start with one item—maybe it’s just napkins, or just silverware, or just placing everyone’s water bottles in their table spots. Consider starting by placing the item or items on the table, eventually progressing to another item, etc. and then asking them to help put them in their proper locations. You might start here and after a short while, or when they can reach and carry all items, have your child begin to go get all the items in addition to their table setting. Once they get to this point you can start by telling them the amount of forks needed. “We’ll need napkins and 6 forks, one for each person.” And eventually you can say things like, “We’re having soup and dad won’t be home for dinner tonight,” and let them kind of figure out what is needed. This is good practice for the skill of seeing what is needed. You can teach them to fold napkins after age 3/4. Older children can help bring plated plates to the table. And even older children can begin to help by first serving their own food and maybe even helping to serve others some of their food.

Just remember through all of these contributions, it does not always mean that older siblings are always helping younger siblings. It means everyone is trying to notice what is needed and helping each other out.

Alright, clearing the table after meals is the next routine.

The easiest thing to begin with is probably napkins. Even the youngest children can help with taking care of their napkins and either throwing away paper ones or placing cloth napkins into the hamper.

The next thing would probably be to add on silverware—having the child place silverware into the sink.

As they get a little older, sometimes 2 and definitely 3, they can begin to carry their plates to the counter.

Whenever their coordination is good enough, they can start to scrape off food into the garbage or for us, we have a scrap food bin for our chickens. I had my girls doing this for a while and I really need to get back into making them do this.

I also need to start having our girls wipe their table spots with a washcloth. And rinse their plates off in the sink or even put them into the dishwasher. If it was a crummy meal, some older kids might be tasked to help clean the table as a whole or vacuum or sweep under the table.

Think of anything having to do with the full table clean up after a meal and then break it down into the smallest of parts. Maybe you have some other tasks at your house like wiping down chairs or a bench or filling the water bottles things like that. All of those can be broken down into extra jobs. But building that confidence and independence can start very simple with just the starts of their own items.

Alright, getting water is the third routine.

This one is super easy. Do you use water bottles or cups in your house? We use water bottles so I’m going to speak to that here. But if you use cups, your job is actually easier for teaching skills to fill up a cup but more challenging for teaching the skills needed to place the cup in places where it won’t get spilled and / or the skills needed for cleaning up said spills.

Okay so filling up water bottles can be started before the child has any ability to actually fill up a water. First, I’d highly recommend a water “station” aka a spot everyone keeps their waters. We like to keep them right on our kitchen table. Some people like them more hidden. But generally, somewhere in the kitchen is a good idea. It just helps keep track of them so you’re not trying to find water bottles every time someone needs a drink and then always feeling like you have to fill them right when you were about to sit down to eat.

So anyway, water bottle care can start with the kids keeping their water bottles in this spot and if they remove their water bottle from the spot to bring to a location where they are playing then they have all of the responsibility to bring the waters back to the table at meal time.

Then if a child needs their water bottle filled before they know how to open up the bottle to fill it, they can place the water bottle over by the sink and go ask an adult to fill up the water bottle when the adult gets a chance. The adult will return the water bottle to the station when it’s full then!

Then of course once a child can do this themselves, they’ll simply pull up a stool, open their water, and fill it up. They might have to ask an adult for a tighten on the water bottle lid for a bit of time but otherwise the task is independent.

So that’s that. Easy peasy.

Okay getting snacks.

Snack cabinet. snack cabinet. snack cabinet. I repeat, snack cabinet.

Guys, just make a cabinet with all the snacks you are okay with your children having. I have an episode already on this so I’ll link to that in the show notes.

Okay SO in my opinion, if you can have a space where there are already snacks in an organized fashion, then they can just go in there and grab what they’d like after asking for a snack. You have minimal work. Of course with little one year olds and even two year olds, you’ll have to help a bit more. When they get to be about 3 years old or so they can start to open packaging. If they have a hard time, they can learn to use little kid scissors and cut it open if needed. You might even consider keeping it near the snacks and out of reach of any younger kids.

Once a child can open the refrigerator a whole new world of get your own snack is available. Now you can keep snacks low in the fridge, things like cheeses, small apples, yogurts or whatever else. I try to have the “snack” foods be not too messy so that I don’t have to clean up another kitchen mess. So most of our snack foods are low(er) mess. Of course little hands are going to make messes with everything but you know, I’m just talking not a container of cottage cheese.

As your kids get even older they might be able to cut up snack items with appropriate knife skills. They’ll slowly be able to get snack mixes put together if they want that and want to put in the effort to mix a few things together like cheese and sausage and crackers or whatever together. Our kids seem to be like me as an adult so far—when I want a snack I want a quick grab snack with minimal prep effort.

Now don’t forget that clean up of the snack has to happen and so they can help with that part of “getting a snack” from the get go. Wrappers to the trash. Leftovers to the counter. Whatever your rules are they can help!

Last but not least, the dishes.

We briefly talked about kids doing dishes in the clearing your table spot section. But I’ll just expand a little. So we are really bad at this in our house so this is me preaching do as I say and not as I do apparently. No we are in need of some summertime improvements here, BIG time.

So the only part of the dishes that little kids 1-2 are probably going to be able to help with is putting away dishes, especially if you have a cabinet they can reach. They can help you unload the dishwasher. Start by handing them one dish at a time for their lower cabinet and they’ll run and put it away and come for another one. At some point they’ll start grabbing them from the dishwasher themselves. Older kids can help with unloading more than just the kid cabinet.

Other skills as kids are able—scraping plates into a container or the garbage, rinsing plates with a stool in the sink, putting plates into the dishwasher (you could even just start with putting silverware into the dishwasher and eventually work up to all dishes), washing any dishes that can’t go into the dishwasher.

Okay so that is pretty much it to those five routines. We chatted about—

1. Setting the table

2. Clearing the table after meals

3. Getting water

4. Getting snacks

5. The dishes

A last few things

• Teaching kids reset and care habits happens everywhere around the house but the kitchen is just a huge spot for it. It’s the little things that make a big difference—things like if you use the stool, put the stool back when you are done, close the drawers after grabbing something out of them. Things like this are so important for each child’s responsibility inside the home as part of the family.

• Executive functioning skills improve as kids get older. They are learning, as they go about these routines, but you can also note to them, things like — looking to see what’s missing before saying they are done with table setting, noticing when something is running out like if we need more ranch from the basement before the meal, seeing the need before you ask as the adult essentially.

Generally consistency of a child’s actions matters more than a child’s enthusiasm when it comes to these rhythms. They might moan and groan occasionally, but they’re building good habits even when they don’t love it. Routines are fun because there is just no asking or bargaining when it becomes a routine. Routines just happen. They are expected. And it removes most of the adult nagging and makes the expectations very clear which makes it more likely a child will be successful.

The hardest thing for me when it comes to allowing the kids to help is letting go of perfection and messes. I do not do a great job of always being like “it’s okay” and moving on. But that would be an ideal scenario for continuing a child’s motivation for the task.

Anyway all in all—ask yourself if there are any extra tiny tasks your kids can easily do in your daily kitchen routines. Give them one of those today because really, there’s not a whole lot of good excuses for the hold up. So I will apparently be encouraging my kids to do more than just bring their plates to our counter.

Alright that is all for the kitchen! In April we are talking a favorite topic among many mamas and that is TOYS and setting up play spaces. This is a favorite topic of mine too!

Okay so we’ll see ya in April! Before Easter? I think before Easter!

Alright drink water eat snacks.

Talk next time.

Tash

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🍽 what to include in a kid kitchen space

👧 how to organize the space

💪 how to use the space to train independence

Episode Transcript:

Hello hello! Welcome to another episode of Prepared Enough! How are you? Are you drinking enough water? Eating enough snacks with protein?

How is everyone feeling? There is some wretched bug going around our area that finally hit out house. Last week, our kids had HALF of their classes gone for the full week of school. Literally. I’m not just saying half and meaning “a lot of kids” I literally mean that half of the kids in their classes were out of school for 5 days. It was not a matter of if the sickness would hit our house. It was a matter of when and how bad.

Okay but we’re all doing fine enough. Just a sickness!

Okay but I have to tell you listeners a short story before we start the episode. There are a lot of people in my life that know I have a podcast. But there are a lot of people that don’t. The very short story goes—

We joined a new church with lots of new friends two years ago. None of them have really known that I have this hobby on the side of my stay at home parent work. Well a few weeks ago someone leaked the information and then this past week a friend of ours (you know who you are) brought it to more peoples attention and now the secret is out. Jesse if you haven’t yet switched this podcast off and turned back to a hunting podcast, just know that I blame you and also know that the next cool thing you do will be put in the local paper as revenge.

Anyway, all this is to say what I wanted to say and that is that I don’t try to keep this space a secret, but it just isn’t easy to bring up in casual conversation because of what I talk about. I talk about home organization because I love it. I love organizing and making spaces functional and pretty. This is, however, part of homemaking. And homemaking of any sorts is a sensitive topic because most women place some sort of sense of their identity here.

I don’t usually bring up the podcast because I don’t want the women in my real life feeling some weird sense of inadequacy when it comes to their homes. Some of my favorite humans are my friends and relatives who keep their homes hospitable by simply inviting everyone in. They are relaxed about the mess that people bring into their homes. They host at any moment no matter the state of things without any shame or constant “don’t mind the mess” excuses. They simply welcome people in. And I LOVE this. And I envy this because I struggle with this in many ways.

So long story made short—we all have different gifts and strengths and organizing and making spaces functional and beautiful is one that I can claim. Hosting with an entire sense of ease is not.

Okayyyyy, moving on to the podcast.

This month, in March here on the podcast, we are in this kitchen! Today we’re talking about designing a lower kitchen space for our younger children to help them contribute to kitchen work. Next week we will chat about some kitchen related routines and habits that we can instill in our young kids!

I know I preach this often, but just having your home organized specifically in ways that encourage your kids to be helpful and contribute is going to naturally help your children grow into more cooperative and helpful kids and thus save you some sanity as the parent by not having to train with your voice every day and instead allow the environment you’ve set up to do some of the training.

Okay so onto designing a lower kitchen cabinet.

First — Why do you need a low, reachable kid kitchen space? Okay I suppose we can ask this question in another way—what is the end goal when it comes to training our kids in the kitchen?

Obviously, fully independent, running their own kitchen as an adult. Which means—kids would benefit from reaching items and participating in different smaller areas of the kitchen when they are younger so to build on independence that is already instilled as they get older.

Now I’ll admit that I am not the greatest at releasing control to my children in the kitchen. There are a lot of things about cooking and cleaning up that take less time if I “just do it myself”. Thinking through both this episode and next week’s episode has been a good wake up call to myself to release some more control.

It is quite easy as a mother to feel like you are a short order cook for your children who constantly ask for food and snacks and snacks and snacks and who need help cooking things and getting things and cleaning things up and opening things and wiping hands and faces and cleaning up the crumbs made, etc. etc. etc.

In this episode we are going to relieve some of that stress by giving your children more access in the kitchen.

Okay so let’s actually create this lower cabinet, kid access space.

Where to create this kid accessible kitchen space?

• a lower cabinet

• lower drawers

• a small sideboard kid cabinet of their own

• a low shelving area

It doesn’t matter where exactly, so long as it is a low, reachable, and accessible space (i.e. your kids can open the drawer or cabinet door without needing help).

What to include:

I’m going to list a few things you might consider including. Know that we don’t personally have all of these things in our kid cabinet space but we have all of the items we want our children to have access to within reach in other areas of our kitchen if not in the kid cabinet.

• Kid plates

• Kid bowls

• Kid sized utensils

• Napkins

• Kid knives — *Include only items your child can use without adult supervision. You want this space to be accessible and safe for them.

• Kid cups / mugs

• Any extra kid water bottles

• Kid snacks—I will link to another podcast episode in the show notes. I did a full episode on creating a kid snack cabinet that I think you’d really love to listen to.

• Towels

• Kid cleaning items

• Wet wipes

• You might consider including lunch boxes / snack containers etc. if you are going to have a child pack their own snacks or help with their lunches.

• You might consider rearranging your refrigerator to include some lower snack items.
  

These items are going to help your child become more independent in the kitchen. So it’s helpful to imagine your child on a journey of independence in all areas of the kitchen, all the areas they still need your help in.

They’ll gain independence:

• setting the table

• cutting food items

• filling their own cups and water bottles

• getting snacks

• helping cook meals

• helping clear plates and do dishes

• helping clean up

We will talk more about kitchen routines and training helpfulness in the kitchen on the next podcast.

Every time you can have something more accessible and more available for independence, you are inching closer to less parental interruption and a more cohesive family unit of everyone just getting what they need and helping each other instead of you, the adult, just helping the children.

How to organize a lower cabinet:

• Shallow bins or baskets

• Clear containers

• Simple categories, like organized with like

• Decluttered—less variety means faster decisions and better clean up

• Visual order so it is calming and inviting for the child

Teaching kids how to use the lower cabinet:

• Introduce them to all the items inside

• Show them where everything is and where everything goes back to.

• Do this introduction part slowly and you will probably need to repeat it.

• Use guided practice—the “we do” method

• Teach over time and evolve your routines with age. Ask for help with silverware to start. Then with plates and napkins. Ask for help getting a cup that you can fill as the adult. Later they can fill it themself! Things like that. These are boundaries. Enforce boundaries that might be different for different aged children who all have access to the same materials.

• Teach boundaries around snacks, what they can always have, or sometimes have, or have to ask for.

• Adapt the cabinet by age: This isn’t necessarily necessary. But it would work if you only had one kid using the cabinet. So for example, if you only had a one year old using the cabinet, you might only put out bowls and toddler utensils and maybe one basket of snacks. Things they could grab for you to help them with. Then you can add items as they get older.

Okay that’s pretty much it on creating a lower cabinet of sorts in the kitchen for your children.

I really hope you love creating this space and I hope you love what it does for your family. I hope it encourages your children to contribute and take responsibility. I hope it reminds you as the parent to allow for that contribution (ahem…speaking to myself). In working with kids for many years, I usually see that when kids are trusted with access to things, they really do rise to the responsibility.

I would love to hear from you if you create a new kitchen space and hear what worked for you! I finally did it! I created a speak pipe account after copycatting Nancy Ray. So you can just go and record whatever you want to say to me and send it my way! I will listen! And I want to hear from you! It’s so easy and fun!

Okay I’ll link to that below too.

Alright! I’ll see you back in two weeks when we chat about kitchen routines and habits for our children.

Talk soon!

Drink water, eat snacks!

Tash

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