Recent Posts
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How To Teach Kids To Cook
Cooking = essential life skill. Christine and Asha talk about 10 tips for teaching kids to find inspiration in the kitchen and get cooking -- notably, in a low stress way spanning toddler through teens. Because hello, move-out skills.
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Our Parenting Do-Overs Wish List
Parenting is all about trial and error. You make the best decisions you can in the moment and often times don’t know how things will play out. Also, some things you think are a huge deal end up not being a big deal, while other things you didn’t notice or pay much attention to turn out to be really important. Christine and Asha talk about 8 lessons they have learned (and do-overs they wish they could have!) over their years parenting kids who now range in ages from 6 to 17.
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Guest Interview, Parenting, Work
Letting Go + Making Leaps (with Dr. Ken Jeong)
Change can be hard and scary -- the uncertainty, the letting go of security, the need to trust in the act of trying. Christine and Asha talk about and share Christine’s interview with actor Dr. Ken Jeong (of The Hangover and Dr. Ken fame) about making leaps. In this candid interview, Jeong shares about leaving medicine for acting, dealing with fear of failure and other people’s expectations, letting go of control, how his experience has impacted his parenting, and why his wife was the missing link and the catalyst for his success.
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Letting Kids Experience Risk
Protecting our kids is the most basic of parenting jobs, but how much is too much? When we shield kids from anything that’s remotely risky, we erase a valuable learning opportunity. Christine and Asha discuss the importance of exposing kids to reasonable risk and danger, how “reasonable” differs from parent-to-parent (even in the same family), and how knowing-- and trusting -- ourselves is crucial as we navigate risky territory with our kids. Talk to us Leave a comment on the Edit Your Life Facebook page Talk to us on Instagram or Twitter using #EditYourLifeShow Email us at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com If you're enjoying our podcast, please consider leaving a review on iTunes. It's one of the best ways you can help new listeners find us. Here's how to leave a review. Resources mentioned in this episode Why I think kids should do chores that aren’t 100% safe (Asha’s post on kids & danger) How to Get Kids to Do Chores Zyliss plastic knife Two-year-old Violet rocking the paring knife The Overprotected Kid (via the Atlantic) Free Range Parenting by Lenore Skenazy Kermit Flail Last day to claim your free gift with Parent Hack book order Interested in sponsorship? We’ve got an awesome range of lifestyle, parenting and productivity topics in the queue for future episodes. If you’d like to discuss sponsoring an episode, email us at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com.
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Guest Interview, Organization, Productivity
How To Bust Through Paper Clutter (with Erin Doland)
The never-ending nature of paper clutter -- incoming mail, bills, and school papers -- is both irritating and anxiety-provoking, and yet most of it can go straight into the recycle bin. In this episode of Edit Your Life, Asha interviews Erin Doland, Real Simple’s organizing columnist and author of the new book, Never Too Busy to Cure Clutter. Asha and Erin discuss the wisdom of handling paper clutter in small bits, note the energy difference between mindful and mindless organizing, and share practical tips for both handling incoming paper and busting through the paper clutter already filling your house.
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Modeling Imperfection
The notion of modeling behavior makes many parents feel like they’re in the perfection hot seat; that if they don’t act like paragons of humanity at all times, they’re setting their kids up for future therapy. Christine and Asha turn this idea upside down and discuss why embracing and modeling imperfection is a good thing and offer 8 tips for how to model imperfection, handle perfectionist kids, and use imperfect moments as communication levers.
