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Creating a Simply Summer | inspiration for your best summer yet · The Wholehearted Enneagram Podcast

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SPEAKER_04: This episode is sponsored by Super Summer Challenge.
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SPEAKER_04: Whether you have one hour a week, one day a week, or twelve full weeks with your kids this summer, Super Summer Challenge is here to help you make the most of every minute.
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SPEAKER_04: Our book, templates, online workshop, and personalized coaching will help you create more unplugged, purposeful, and intentional moments this summer.
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SPEAKER_04: Instead of fighting against boredom, electronics all day long, or the crazy busy swirl of activities, Supersummer Challenge will help your kids learn new skills, build confidence, and strengthen family relationships.
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SPEAKER_04: Find more at SupersummerCallenge.com.
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SPEAKER_04: Hi friends, welcome to the Simply Wholehearted Podcast.
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SPEAKER_04: Today in this studio we have some extra special guests because my three kids are joining in on today's conversation.
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SPEAKER_04: They have come here along with my good friend and cousin-in-law, Jessica Griffiths, and her three kids, who are some of my kids' really good friends.
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SPEAKER_04: We happen to be neighbors who live only nine houses away, so we've had some fun doing some kid swapping and having fun during the summers when we have a more relaxed schedule.
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SPEAKER_04: Today they're going to be sharing about their experiences with the Super Summer Challenge.
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SPEAKER_04: You may have heard that they sponsor this podcast.
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SPEAKER_04: The Super Summer Challenge has been an amazing way that I have spent the summers creating more unplugged, purposeful, and intentional moments.
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SPEAKER_04: The Super Summer Challenge was originally thought up by my mother-in-law and her best friend over 30 years ago.
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SPEAKER_04: They started lots of great family traditions that many of us have carried on today.
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SPEAKER_04: So you've heard about how it's begun.
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SPEAKER_04: I think that was episode four.
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SPEAKER_04: But today we're gonna share about how we're how Super Summer Challenge looks in our households.
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SPEAKER_04: Now Jessica and I have been doing this for about seven years with our kiddos, and it honestly has looked different every year.
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SPEAKER_04: So we have lots of different stories to tell, lots of fun ideas, and we think you'll be inspired to create some of these moments with your kids this summer.
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SPEAKER_04: Now, if you haven't heard already, Super Summer Challenge is going to be opening their online workshop called How to Create a Simply Summer.
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SPEAKER_04: Because it's all about us as moms with our kids, creating and finding some simplicity while also creating unplugged, purposeful, and intentional moments.
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SPEAKER_04: So stay tuned for great ideas and more ways to create a simply summer with a super summer challenge.
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SPEAKER_04: Okay, Liam, Liam, we would love to hear your thoughts on the Super Summer Challenge.
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SPEAKER_04: Do you know how many years you've done it so far?
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SPEAKER_04: Um, I'm not sure.
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SPEAKER_01: I think it's well you're how old?
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SPEAKER_01: Like I'm nine.
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SPEAKER_04: Okay, so maybe five summers.
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SPEAKER_01: Four or five summers, yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, okay.
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SPEAKER_04: Uh, what was your favorite super summer challenge that you can remember?
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SPEAKER_01: Uh I liked the one when uh we got to go to Branson, we got to go to Silver Dollar City.
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SPEAKER_01: That was my favorite one for the reward.
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SPEAKER_04: How did you earn that?
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SPEAKER_04: That's like a really great reward.
3:12
SPEAKER_01: Well, uh we we did the how you know yeah, how you how you have to get the stickers you on the chart.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh we got we got enough s I got enough stickers and uh my sisters to go to Branson.
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SPEAKER_01: So you had to work together.
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SPEAKER_04: You each had to earn the trip?
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SPEAKER_04: Man.
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SPEAKER_04: Did you get to earn anything else special with Branson?
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SPEAKER_04: Uh yes.
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SPEAKER_01: We got like we were able to get to like uh a family picture there and oh like those old fashioned ones.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you can dress up and uh one of them was dip and dots where you can you can also get you can also get the dip in dots and the you could get a souvenir.
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SPEAKER_04: A souvenir?
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SPEAKER_04: What did you pick?
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SPEAKER_04: Do you remember?
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SPEAKER_04: No, I don't.
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SPEAKER_04: But you got to pick one, which is pretty great.
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe Ginger remembers what you got.
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SPEAKER_01: I I remember I think I got the slingshot.
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SPEAKER_01: That slingshot.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, a slingshot.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that that's a perfect thing to get from Silver Dollar City.
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SPEAKER_01: It had like an eagle face carved into it.
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SPEAKER_04: How did I want to know how you stayed motivated because all summer can seem like a long time when you're a kid.
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SPEAKER_04: How did you keep working towards the big goal of going to Silver Dollar City?
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SPEAKER_01: And I am not a big fan of school.
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SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, doing chores is way better than school.
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SPEAKER_01: And if I get to do if I do enough, then I'll and some of them weren't even chores, and if I do enough of it, I'll be able to go to Silver Dollar City.
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SPEAKER_01: That's great.
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SPEAKER_04: So it was motivating.
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SPEAKER_04: Do you remember besides the choice chores, do you remember the other things that you could do to earn points?
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SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: There is like uh like read a book.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, a whole book.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, did your mom go to the book?
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SPEAKER_04: Or like just a chapter.
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SPEAKER_04: Oh, a chapter?
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SPEAKER_04: Okay.
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SPEAKER_04: That's good.
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SPEAKER_04: Yes, I think he had chapters last year.
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SPEAKER_04: Some certain books.
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SPEAKER_04: Okay.
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SPEAKER_04: Did did you have certain books that you had to read or could you choose anything you wanted?
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SPEAKER_01: Uh I think I had to read like either an entire like one like a shorter book, like not a chapter book, or I had to read like one chapter of a chapter book.
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SPEAKER_04: Okay.
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SPEAKER_04: Okay.
5:34
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's great.
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SPEAKER_04: Those are great ways.
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SPEAKER_04: I love that you stayed motivated and got to do that.
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SPEAKER_04: It's pretty fun.
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SPEAKER_04: That's awesome.
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SPEAKER_04: Thanks for sharing, Liam.
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SPEAKER_04: Okay.
5:43
SPEAKER_04: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_04: Ginger, how about you?
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SPEAKER_04: You t your turn.
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SPEAKER_04: You've been doing super summer challenge the longest in your family.
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SPEAKER_04: Because how old are you?
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SPEAKER_00: Eleven and a half.
5:53
SPEAKER_00: Eleven and a half.
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SPEAKER_04: So you're almost done with fifth grade.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh.
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SPEAKER_00: Nine days left, I'm pretty sure.
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SPEAKER_04: Oh man, I can't believe that.
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SPEAKER_04: That is crazy.
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SPEAKER_04: So do you remember your favorite super summer challenge?
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SPEAKER_04: Um, yeah, it was the Silver Dollar City one.
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SPEAKER_04: It was that one too.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, pretty and it's honestly we can't remember very far back, right?
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SPEAKER_04: We tend to just remember last summer.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
6:19
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: That's okay.
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SPEAKER_04: It's totally normal.
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SPEAKER_04: So what what did you appreciate about having super um with the super summer challenge, the reward of Silver Dollar City?
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SPEAKER_00: Um, I really liked it because they were like in stages, so we got a certain amount of points.
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SPEAKER_00: And then we got a treat, and then we just kept going up.
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SPEAKER_00: I remember like dip in dots was 70 points.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Taffy 90, prospecting like a hundred or something.
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SPEAKER_04: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: And then souvenir 150, extra day in Silver Dollar City, like 180, and Silver Dollar City actually was like 200.
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SPEAKER_00: And then there's a family picture, and that was like 230 or something.
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SPEAKER_00: I made it.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm not sure if Liam or Genvave did, but I don't remember doing that.
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SPEAKER_00: But I got everything else.
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SPEAKER_04: We got everything else?
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: That's awesome.
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SPEAKER_04: So you earned little by little, and it all accumulated to the final big reward, which was actually getting to use all of these at Silver Dollar City.
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SPEAKER_04: Your mom's pretty smart.
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SPEAKER_04: Oh no, that was all dad.
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SPEAKER_04: Oh.
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SPEAKER_04: That year last year?
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SPEAKER_04: With devised by dad.
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SPEAKER_04: I love it.
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SPEAKER_04: That is so great.
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SPEAKER_04: Can you remember something you learned or you really enjoyed doing as you were earning points last year?
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SPEAKER_00: Um, I really enjoyed reading and I had like it wasn't like with Liam when I just had to read one chapter of a book.
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SPEAKER_00: No picture books unless I was reading to Gen V for Liam and I had to read the whole book because I read so fast.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, you do read really fast.
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SPEAKER_04: But that's a great idea.
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SPEAKER_04: So you could read a book to Gen and V or Liam and you got points, right?
7:51
SPEAKER_04: Oh, I like that.
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SPEAKER_04: That's a really good idea.
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SPEAKER_04: Now, how about this year when you think about I mean school's almost out, we just have a couple more weeks.
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SPEAKER_04: And you think about doing a super summer challenge this year, it might be kind of feel like it might be kind of hard to top.
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SPEAKER_04: But what would you be excited about doing and earning points for this year?
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SPEAKER_00: I'd be like, now that I do band, I'd be like I'd like to like earn points like by practicing my clarinet because that's what I play in band.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Because we have to practice over the summer so that we don't become like rusty next year.
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SPEAKER_04: This is important.
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SPEAKER_04: So you can go back to school in August and be ready to go.
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SPEAKER_04: Band.
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SPEAKER_04: That's really good.
8:28
SPEAKER_04: Are you gonna do any camps or VBS or anything like that?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm doing VBS and I'm doing um volleyball at least one volleyball camp.
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SPEAKER_00: And I might do sand volleyball with my volleyball team.
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SPEAKER_04: Ooh, that'll be a lot of fun.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, you're I hear you're a good volleyball player.
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SPEAKER_04: The girls love watching your game.
8:50
SPEAKER_04: Uh, how about swimming?
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SPEAKER_04: How does that how does that fit into your super summer challenges?
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SPEAKER_04: Because I mean it's summertime and it's hot in Kansas City.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh.
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SPEAKER_00: And um, so like we can like practice laps and this summer we're going to the Jewish community center where you go so we can swim.
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SPEAKER_00: We're so excited.
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SPEAKER_00: And be more excited about swimming than we usually are.
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SPEAKER_02: Yes.
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SPEAKER_02: That'll be so good.
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SPEAKER_02: That's true.
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SPEAKER_02: After they've done lessons, I've always let them if they do laps, then you know, points.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, definitely.
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SPEAKER_04: No, we definitely incorporate laps and amount of laps for points during the summer.
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SPEAKER_04: It's great.
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SPEAKER_04: And then you get to go down the slide after you're done with the laps, and it's win-win points and slide time.
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SPEAKER_04: That'll be great.
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SPEAKER_04: That's awesome.
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SPEAKER_04: Is there anything else you'd like to share about the super summer challenge that you think people should know?
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SPEAKER_00: Um, I should think that it's really fun and it like helps you get into like good habits.
9:42
SPEAKER_00: Oh.
9:42
SPEAKER_00: Like brushing your teeth in the morning when you get up, because sometimes people don't forget to do their stuff.
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SPEAKER_04: That's true.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
9:49
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
9:50
SPEAKER_00: And other things.
9:51
SPEAKER_04: It helps that morning breath, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: So mommy doesn't go, oh, you need to go brush your teeth.
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SPEAKER_04: Right?
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SPEAKER_04: That's awesome.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it does build really good habits.
10:04
SPEAKER_04: Thank you, Ginger.
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SPEAKER_04: That was really great.
10:06
SPEAKER_04: Genevieve, are you ready to share it?
10:08
SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
10:08
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
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SPEAKER_04: What would you like to share about the super summer challenge, Genevieve?
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SPEAKER_01: Um, I just think that it's really fun and I enjoy it.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a nice thing to do.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
10:26
SPEAKER_04: What do you now, how old are you, Genevieve?
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SPEAKER_01: Six.
10:29
SPEAKER_01: In ha in more than halfway to seven.
10:32
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, you're about to have a birthday in July, right?
10:34
SPEAKER_04: Right.
10:35
SPEAKER_04: You're gonna be seven.
10:37
SPEAKER_04: So you've been doing the super summer challenge for I don't know, three years, maybe a little bit more, because the youngest tends to do it earlier because they're watching brother and sister.
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SPEAKER_02: I estimated she started when she was three.
10:50
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
10:50
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, this will be like her fourth one.
10:53
SPEAKER_04: Her fourth one, yeah.
10:54
SPEAKER_04: That's awesome.
10:55
SPEAKER_04: So what do you remember about last year?
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SPEAKER_04: It's kind of hard to remember back that far at this age, but what do you remember?
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SPEAKER_04: People read books to you, right?
11:02
SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
11:03
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
11:03
SPEAKER_01: And I did swim lessons, I think.
11:07
SPEAKER_01: I can't remember.
11:08
SPEAKER_01: I think I did.
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SPEAKER_02: Oh, yes, you did swim lessons, and I think you did a lot of like go you you got points for going to vacation bible camp.
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SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: And you got some like um you listened to some adventures in Odyssey last year.
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SPEAKER_02: That was a lot of a big popular summer thing to do with that.
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SPEAKER_02: That's a great idea.
11:22
SPEAKER_02: Especially when she wasn't quite reading.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
11:25
SPEAKER_02: And to build those auditories.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I let her count like an audio like if she got a book with the CD, you know, and that went to her too.
11:32
SPEAKER_04: That was good.
11:33
SPEAKER_04: That's a great idea.
11:34
SPEAKER_04: How about any chores?
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SPEAKER_04: Did you learn anything around the house that you could be doing better?
11:38
SPEAKER_01: Well, I don't really remember.
11:42
SPEAKER_01: It was like a long time ago.
11:43
SPEAKER_01: It does feel like a long time ago.
11:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it feels like a long time ago, so I don't remember everything.
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SPEAKER_04: Well, you're you're six almost seven.
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SPEAKER_04: What are the kind of chores you help with now?
11:53
SPEAKER_04: Like, you know what I mean by chores?
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SPEAKER_04: Like helping clean?
11:57
SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah.
11:58
SPEAKER_01: I vacuum the car while Oh, yeah.
12:03
SPEAKER_02: And like, you know, what do you do normally?
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SPEAKER_02: Like on Saturdays, what are some of the chores?
12:08
SPEAKER_01: Um clean the sink, toilet, the mirror.
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SPEAKER_01: Nice.
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SPEAKER_04: With Norex claws, of course.
12:17
SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah.
12:19
SPEAKER_04: That's great.
12:21
SPEAKER_04: The bathtub.
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SPEAKER_04: The bathtub too?
12:24
SPEAKER_04: Way to go.
12:24
SPEAKER_04: You probably never mess it up though.
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SPEAKER_04: You probably just keep it always perfectly clean.
12:29
SPEAKER_04: Um, but it's not all we No, we certainly don't either.
12:32
SPEAKER_04: That's so good.
12:33
SPEAKER_04: So you're almost seven and you can help clean the bathroom.
12:37
SPEAKER_04: That is great.
12:38
SPEAKER_04: Anything else can you sweep or I don't know, make your bed?
12:42
SPEAKER_01: I do dusting and I make my bed.
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SPEAKER_01: Those sorts of things.
12:49
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: Now, when you look forward to this summer, what's something you'd like to learn or do special this year that you couldn't do last year?
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SPEAKER_01: I sort of wanna learn um more books to read, like ch um books that are longer.
13:07
SPEAKER_01: Okay, yeah.
13:09
SPEAKER_04: The like starter books.
13:11
SPEAKER_04: Uh-huh.
13:12
SPEAKER_04: Being able to read those on your own.
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SPEAKER_04: Uh-huh.
13:14
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, because you've learned a lot this year.
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unknown: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
13:21
SPEAKER_02: And you said that maybe you'd like to do some painting too, right?
13:24
SPEAKER_02: Oh, painting.
13:26
SPEAKER_02: You'd tell them Do you remember the man's name who you watched?
13:30
SPEAKER_02: Um, no.
13:31
SPEAKER_02: Bob Ross.
13:33
SPEAKER_02: Bob Ross.
13:34
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we all love Bob Ross.
13:36
SPEAKER_02: It's good stuff.
13:36
SPEAKER_01: It is.
13:38
SPEAKER_01: Were you inspired?
13:40
SPEAKER_01: Once I um at movement, there's this thing um at school.
13:47
SPEAKER_01: We have this thing called specials.
13:50
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
13:50
SPEAKER_01: And um one of them is art.
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SPEAKER_01: And um so um at art once we drew a picture with um what were they called?
14:08
SPEAKER_01: Oil pastels.
14:09
SPEAKER_01: Oil pastels.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh and um so I got them for Christmas.
14:15
SPEAKER_01: You did?
14:16
SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
14:16
SPEAKER_01: And they're really nice and I enjoy drawing with them.
14:20
SPEAKER_04: Oh, that'll be a great thing to be now.
14:22
SPEAKER_04: You'll have more time, right?
14:23
SPEAKER_04: Because you won't be in school, so you'll have time to do some of those things.
14:26
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
14:26
SPEAKER_04: That is awesome.
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SPEAKER_04: During the summer I also like swimming.
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SPEAKER_04: Yes.
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SPEAKER_04: And I'm excited we get to swim together this year, don't we?
14:34
SPEAKER_04: Uh-huh.
14:34
SPEAKER_04: That'll be a lot of fun.
14:36
SPEAKER_04: Now, now are you are you still um learning how to do a full lap of swimming?
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SPEAKER_04: And is that part of your super summer challenge?
14:43
unknown: Yes.
14:44
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, she's not in the side.
14:45
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I'm sure it will be.
14:46
SPEAKER_02: She's not she's still in swim lessons.
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SPEAKER_01: So I used to not be able to go on the slides, they're indoors, but um the first time I tried, uh-huh, uh, I was able to swim to the edge.
15:00
SPEAKER_01: Perfect.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I think that's how the J works is that you pass a little swim test and then you can go down the slides.
15:06
SPEAKER_04: And that's always a huge accomplishment, right?
15:08
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
15:08
SPEAKER_04: Oh, you always earn points for being a little bit more.
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SPEAKER_04: Very exciting.
15:11
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah.
15:11
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's a great thing.
15:13
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's awesome.
15:14
SPEAKER_04: Thank you, Genevieve, for sharing.
15:15
SPEAKER_04: Is there anything else you think people should know about Super Summer Challenge?
15:19
SPEAKER_01: It's a great opportunity to know and do it.
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SPEAKER_01: It's something that I really enjoy.
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SPEAKER_04: Oh, such wise worlds for the sixth-year-old.
15:32
SPEAKER_04: That's so great.
15:33
SPEAKER_04: This is so great.
15:34
SPEAKER_04: You guys did fantastic.
15:37
SPEAKER_04: Thank you.
15:41
SPEAKER_04: Okay, so why don't you just share like how you first heard about Super Summer Challenge?
15:46
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
15:47
SPEAKER_04: And how you started doing it.
15:48
SPEAKER_04: Because I I don't know.
15:49
SPEAKER_04: I feel like we've just always talked about it, but I'm not sure how when you actually decided to jump into it.
15:54
SPEAKER_02: It's a good question because I don't really know, but I'm sure it was just Linda telling me about it.
15:59
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
15:59
SPEAKER_02: Like probably at a family reunion.
16:01
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
16:02
SPEAKER_02: And I think I had the I I don't know how I got the book.
16:06
SPEAKER_02: Well, my book is written.
16:07
SPEAKER_02: She wrote in my book, so I'm guessing either she gave it to me.
16:10
SPEAKER_02: Right, right.
16:11
SPEAKER_02: And the kids might have been young and I saved it.
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SPEAKER_02: She this is probably what happened.
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SPEAKER_02: Yes.
16:16
SPEAKER_02: Is I got it a bit ahead of time.
16:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
16:18
SPEAKER_02: Had it and knew about it.
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SPEAKER_02: Right.
16:20
SPEAKER_02: And I knew that my family hadn't done it, but I had known that like no that Spencer and everybody had done it.
16:26
SPEAKER_04: And so Yeah, did your parents ever do anything like that where you felt like there was a routine for the summer?
16:31
SPEAKER_02: It was not like a well there there was, you know, a routine and we knew what needed to be done, but we didn't have like a specific thing.
16:38
SPEAKER_02: But we I mean we we had a routine and we had to be responsible for certain things.
16:42
SPEAKER_02: Right.
16:43
SPEAKER_02: Right.
16:43
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
16:44
SPEAKER_02: So it wasn't quite the same.
16:46
SPEAKER_02: But yeah.
16:47
SPEAKER_04: Do you remember what kind of was like, all right, I need to st I need to look at this book and I need to start doing it.
16:52
SPEAKER_02: Um, no, I mean I th I must have just decided it was I ginger well when I look back, I think it had to be when Ginger was five and Liam was three.
17:00
SPEAKER_02: So probably it was like, you know, the end of preschool's approaching.
17:03
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
17:04
SPEAKER_02: And if you know, Ginger's five, Liam's three, um, Genevieve, I was pregnant probably and thinking, oh, I just need to keep them busy for the summer so that I have time.
17:15
SPEAKER_02: And that way they're kind of doing some things.
17:18
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
17:18
SPEAKER_02: So it's the end of pre-K, and I so I probably like planned it.
17:21
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
17:22
SPEAKER_02: Like that.
17:22
SPEAKER_04: Well, that was the first year I did it too, because I was pregnant with Miles.
17:26
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
17:26
SPEAKER_04: The girls were Paige was three, Haiti was two.
17:29
SPEAKER_04: So that was kind of younger.
17:31
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
17:31
SPEAKER_04: But I was desperate.
17:32
SPEAKER_04: We probably talked about it.
17:33
SPEAKER_04: I mean, probably did.
17:34
SPEAKER_04: That's probably what happened.
17:37
SPEAKER_04: And I was like, what am I gonna do?
17:38
SPEAKER_04: Because we didn't do preschool or anything, but I thought like there were some things I needed them to get a hang of before I introduced the third one.
17:46
SPEAKER_04: And like I needed them to like be just some better habits where I could trust them.
17:51
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
17:52
SPEAKER_04: Well, I'm nursing Miles and they're not like you know, killing each other or something like that.
17:56
SPEAKER_04: Exactly.
17:57
SPEAKER_04: Oh, yeah.
17:58
SPEAKER_04: So it must have been about the same year, which is funny.
17:59
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, we must have been talking about it.
18:01
SPEAKER_04: Probably so.
18:02
SPEAKER_04: These years are just a blur.
18:04
SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah.
18:05
SPEAKER_04: Exactly.
18:06
SPEAKER_04: Totally.
18:06
SPEAKER_04: Do you remember how it went that first year for you at all?
18:09
SPEAKER_02: It went well because they had to have earned their goal, and I don't remember what prize I gave them in early times.
18:15
SPEAKER_02: And I of course back then I didn't write it on there for some reason.
18:19
SPEAKER_02: Like now I look back at my charts because I've saved them all.
18:22
SPEAKER_02: Oh, I love it.
18:22
SPEAKER_02: I need to take pictures of these.
18:24
SPEAKER_02: Anyway, it's hilarious.
18:25
SPEAKER_02: They're like taped up, or basement sun finished are taped up and down in the basement near my sewing area, except for the year of failure.
18:31
SPEAKER_02: But like um anyway, like, but it was it's a learning experience.
18:37
SPEAKER_02: It is, and for sure.
18:38
SPEAKER_02: So, like, but the so yeah, they're anyways.
18:41
SPEAKER_02: I don't even remember what your question was, but I think I don't remember what I gave them, but it must have worked, and like they liked it.
18:47
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and they they were kind of used to a preschool.
18:49
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, were they used to preschool?
18:51
SPEAKER_02: And I used stickers, they liked stickers already.
18:54
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I'm sure I had already done charts for things for them before that.
18:58
SPEAKER_02: So you did kind of a little poster board, a poster board, and they had little tiny, teeny tiny dot stickers, and that's what was a point and like those garage sale dots or something.
19:08
SPEAKER_02: Teeny tiny, yeah.
19:08
SPEAKER_02: Like you buy, I don't know.
19:10
SPEAKER_02: And then um, yeah, and that's so that's like what they it went well and they liked it and they wanted to do it again.
19:15
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, that's awesome.
19:17
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
19:17
SPEAKER_04: So how do you go about for you now?
19:19
SPEAKER_04: I mean, now you've done it for so many years, how do you go about planning when you think of super summer challenge?
19:24
SPEAKER_04: Do you work on it a little bit a year or kind of what's your method?
19:27
SPEAKER_02: I don't.
19:27
SPEAKER_02: I'm so not, I should, and I I know that I'm supposed to.
19:31
SPEAKER_05: I'm like, oh, let's use this as a recommendation.
19:33
SPEAKER_05: It's helpful.
19:34
SPEAKER_02: It helps, but I don't, yeah, I don't usually.
19:37
SPEAKER_02: Um, however, um, like I did, I have this year started thinking about it way earlier than in years past.
19:44
SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
19:44
SPEAKER_02: So I and I actually maybe it helped.
19:46
SPEAKER_02: I actually bought a notebook so that I could like start writing some things down ahead of time.
19:50
SPEAKER_02: Like when I thought of them, that I had it in a place.
19:52
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, because the re recommendation is to have someday I would like some sort of electronic app.
19:58
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
19:58
SPEAKER_04: But where you have this one place where you write down ideas throughout the year that you're like, oh yeah, I'd really like my child to work on this area of character development, or I've seen this as a week area in our school routine year, or you know, just specific things that might pop in the mind randomly.
20:14
SPEAKER_04: Yes.
20:14
SPEAKER_02: And I think so.
20:15
SPEAKER_02: Usually what happens is it's getting close to summer, and I'm like, I've got to get this done, and it gets put on my to-do list, and I start thinking about it.
20:23
SPEAKER_02: And then I usually, when I finally sit down, like I sometimes will bring my previous year's info so that I can just kind of look it over and kind of refresh my memory on what's what I've done and look back and be like, what did that work last summer?
20:35
SPEAKER_02: Right, how is that?
20:36
SPEAKER_04: And and then And yeah, I think too, because the hard of part of the thing is you it's May, yeah, it's the end of the school year, it's like there's everything, every last activity, all the appreciation gifts, all the closing of everything.
20:50
SPEAKER_04: So it gets kind of crazy and then you're brain fried.
20:52
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
20:52
SPEAKER_02: So anyway, it's I take the opportunity to like go to the pool at the gym and try to check the kids in childcare if I have them with me or if I don't.
20:59
SPEAKER_02: Anyways, but yeah I need time alone to do it.
21:02
SPEAKER_02: And I don't like planning at night because I'm not as fresh.
21:05
SPEAKER_02: My brain just doesn't think as well at night.
21:06
SPEAKER_02: But in any case, I sit down and I usually like get out the book.
21:09
SPEAKER_02: And like for some reason I was thinking I would tell you about this because like it inspires me every year.
21:14
SPEAKER_02: I just I get out the the book and I read super summer talent.
21:18
SPEAKER_02: Linda's super yeah, the book.
21:19
SPEAKER_02: And I read the very first part um in the book about how she was inspired by John Wesley and like and his and what you know when he talks about redeeming the time and that scripture from Ephesians 5.
21:32
SPEAKER_02: And like so I usually end up reading that and just thinking that over and like that always inspires me, I think.
21:39
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
21:40
SPEAKER_02: Gets me excited about the time that I'm gonna have with the kids.
21:44
SPEAKER_02: And um and so that's one thing that I think like I kinda do.
21:48
SPEAKER_02: Anyway, but um yeah, but and then I just start writing down and I I I'm a pen and paper and I just write write things down and then usually I have to rewrite and I kinda think about each kid and
22:00
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
22:00
SPEAKER_04: I think what you said was really good because it's hard.
22:04
SPEAKER_04: I mean, sometimes those 18 years, whatever we're given with our kids, um, it seems long and daunting and the whole, you know, days are long, years are short.
22:12
SPEAKER_04: But it's really true because I mean, I think about, you know, kind of just like where our our oldest both are at, you know, and how quickly those years have really gone and how quickly and short the summers actually end up being, or you know, maybe for you know, a lot of parents they only get a weekend, you know, and maybe um and it just really is such a little bit of time.
22:34
SPEAKER_04: And it doesn't matter how much time we have, it's how we use it, yeah.
22:38
SPEAKER_04: How we redeem the time and making the most of every opportunity because um if if we just do it right, then there's no regrets in the end.
22:46
SPEAKER_04: I mean, there's always things that we wish we could have do-overs or do differently, but but in the end, you know you gave your best to them, especially in the process.
22:56
SPEAKER_04: So yeah.
22:56
SPEAKER_04: I love it.
22:57
SPEAKER_04: It's great when you're gonna be able to do that.
22:58
SPEAKER_02: I know Linda's gonna love hearing that you you crack open her her book and read it and then I do, I crack it open and get get inspired.
23:05
SPEAKER_02: And I also I love and one of the things that she also mentions in her book that um I think my mom, like it is, you know, uh my mom always emphasized this, is that she talks about having the kids do things together and that they're they're they're they're supposed to be friends and like you know, really care for each other and and she mentions all all that and talks about sibling rivalry and just um how she rewards them for doing things together.
23:35
SPEAKER_02: And so like I definitely go through my you know things that I've thought of and look for like what can I have them do together?
23:43
SPEAKER_02: What are the things that they could help each other with?
23:46
SPEAKER_02: And um and my mom always uh growing up yeah was preaching that to us.
23:52
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and you guys, I mean you the four of you are really great, have a really beautiful you know relationship of brothers sisters and they are just a really neat bond.
24:00
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, but I think that's you know, and because my parents emphasized that growing up and didn't let us I mean, sure we fought, of course, but yeah, like you know, but they But they were sure to like address it, yes, always positively, you know, encouraging those things.
24:16
SPEAKER_04: That's really awesome.
24:17
SPEAKER_04: Exactly.
24:18
SPEAKER_04: I love it.
24:18
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I think that's been that was one of the huge pieces, is because um page was three, Haiti was two, I had this other one, and I knew I just kept saying that you could, you know, they could be the best of friends.
24:28
SPEAKER_04: This is your best friend, but I really wanted to encourage that like playtime really well.
24:33
SPEAKER_04: And that is an age that is kind of tricky, the whole sharing and all that sort of stuff.
24:37
SPEAKER_04: But that has been instrumental this whole time.
24:39
SPEAKER_04: And it doesn't it doesn't always work really well, and you sometimes have a resistive party, but I feel like when there's incentive, they might push through some of that I don't want to's because the reward is valuable enough to them to go for it, and then they'll they'll end up having fun anyways because if you get them started, yes, getting them started, they will go off.
25:01
SPEAKER_02: And I love it when I realize that they're like all playing something together and it's just beautiful.
25:07
SPEAKER_02: So anyway, so good.
25:08
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, okay, so some of the benefit for you as a mom, I mean, besides the structure of it and everything like that, we can talk some more about that.
25:15
SPEAKER_04: But for you as a mom, the benefit that you find adding super summer challenge to your summer because it is adding and it takes some foresight and it takes a little prep, a couple hours.
25:24
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, you know, for you, what's the result?
25:27
SPEAKER_02: It pays off though in the time that they spend, even if they do need help getting started, but then they it gives them ideas of things that they can do.
25:36
SPEAKER_02: They don't necessarily have as many of those I'm bored type things, or if they do, they realize like, you know, either I I can I can gently remind them, well, you do have some things on your super summer challenge you can work on.
25:49
SPEAKER_02: That's right.
25:50
SPEAKER_02: There are some points available here.
25:51
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I think they're getting old enough now where they know that.
25:56
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so it's it's you know, and then and then that results in them being busy doing some things so that I can do some things too, and um or just you know, that they're more willing to be involved in some of the things that I need to have them do because they're they're knowing that they they'll get points.
26:12
SPEAKER_02: So it just makes things less simpler.
26:13
SPEAKER_02: Like last year I was pretty worried about grocery shopping with the kids being home from school.
26:18
SPEAKER_02: I don't know why, but they just had gotten to an age where they didn't like to go as much.
26:21
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
26:22
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they'd rather stay home and read.
26:23
SPEAKER_02: So I decided to invent something called just grocery helper.
26:26
SPEAKER_02: I just put that on there and I was like, You help with the grocery shopping and you have a good attitude as we go along and you help when we get home.
26:33
SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
26:34
SPEAKER_02: That is a great idea.
26:35
SPEAKER_02: And it worked, and that's brilliant.
26:37
SPEAKER_04: It made shopping a lot better last year.
26:39
SPEAKER_04: Totally stealing that one.
26:41
SPEAKER_04: I needed that like all school year.
26:43
SPEAKER_04: Well, because homeschooling, I rarely went grocery shopping alone, but right, yeah.
26:48
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's awesome.
26:49
SPEAKER_04: That's a great idea.
26:50
SPEAKER_04: But I mean, just it does, it totally pays off.
26:51
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's really, really good.
26:53
SPEAKER_04: Now, for you, last year was sort of a switch because Linda Wright's, I think most of her super summer challenges ended up in a family reward.
27:02
SPEAKER_04: She may have done some incentives along the way, but like the big picture prize was a trip as a family.
27:08
SPEAKER_04: Right.
27:08
SPEAKER_04: Because she knew she needed to keep Spencer, my husband, uh motivated.
27:13
SPEAKER_04: And um, and it worked.
27:15
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
27:15
SPEAKER_04: They ended up doing it.
27:16
SPEAKER_04: Um, for you, is this the first time to do that cumulative group reward?
27:20
SPEAKER_02: I think it was the first time to have a like a trip as a reward.
27:25
SPEAKER_02: And I did learn a little bit about it because for one, I mean it was awesome because they were excited.
27:31
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
27:31
SPEAKER_02: Which they talked about it all summer.
27:34
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
27:34
SPEAKER_02: And um, and Bill's brilliant method of, you know, using the reverse, like he just kind of basically built them up.
27:40
SPEAKER_02: So they were they were all excited.
27:42
SPEAKER_02: We earned dip and dots, but you know, they aren't quite superdollar city yet.
27:45
SPEAKER_02: So they're not gonna be able to get the dip and dots unless they get all the way there.
27:48
SPEAKER_02: But they were along the way, they were really thrilled.
27:51
SPEAKER_04: And um And at the reverse time, you those little rewards along the way, technically, they could have cashed some of those in if they didn't make it all the way.
27:59
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, someplace else, but it wouldn't have it wouldn't have been the same.
28:02
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it wouldn't have held the same excitement.
28:04
SPEAKER_02: No.
28:04
SPEAKER_02: And so that's awesome.
28:05
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but they um so anyway, so I think the things that I did learn from that were one, I didn't allow enough time for the end, like I just was like made my you know, deadline the end of summer.
28:16
SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
28:17
SPEAKER_02: But then school started and I was like, oh, we haven't made this trip.
28:20
SPEAKER_02: Gotcha.
28:21
SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, oh, and they just made the reward, and you want to give them their breakup.
28:25
SPEAKER_02: You want to give them their reward.
28:27
SPEAKER_02: And so it was a little bit tricky trying to schedule that once school had started.
28:31
SPEAKER_02: So I would say that I've definitely kind of learned that like if I do that again, uh-huh, I need to back the date up just a bit on saying maybe it's not quite the end of summer yet and school hasn't started, but our challenge is gonna end at such a couple of August things.
28:46
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so that's about there's actually time to make the trip take the trip before school starts.
28:52
SPEAKER_02: No, it hasn't been actually booked it.
28:54
SPEAKER_02: That's really good.
28:55
SPEAKER_02: You know, um, I think so.
28:56
SPEAKER_02: I think that was that was that, but I mean, yeah.
28:59
SPEAKER_04: That's really great.
29:00
SPEAKER_04: So going into this year, having done it lots of different ways, because I don't know about you.
29:04
SPEAKER_04: For me, I started out like week challenges and so I just kept them the short um five days, and then they got the reward Saturday.
29:12
SPEAKER_04: Uh and some because sometimes those were dates.
29:14
SPEAKER_04: Yes.
29:14
SPEAKER_04: Um, and then one year I did it by month, one year I did just like a summer bingo thing because I only had a little bit of time, and then this year they're all old enough, I think, to work all summer.
29:27
SPEAKER_04: But I might let them cash in points along the way.
29:31
SPEAKER_04: Kind of what's your thought for this next year?
29:33
SPEAKER_02: Well, I had been thinking about possibly breaking it up and doing two yesterday because I have done before where I've done shorter, I did do a short one like about three years ago.
29:45
SPEAKER_02: I did I knew we were gonna be traveling a lot and I took into account all that really well.
29:49
SPEAKER_02: That's great.
29:50
SPEAKER_02: And had thought, okay, I only have this small stretch of time.
29:54
SPEAKER_02: And it was, I think, ten days.
29:55
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
29:56
SPEAKER_02: And so they just had you know, uh it was a lower point total because it was only ten days.
30:01
SPEAKER_02: I estimated what I thought and it worked great.
30:03
SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's awesome.
30:04
SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's a great idea.
30:05
SPEAKER_02: But so if you only have a little bit of time, just do it for a little bit of time and see how it goes.
30:09
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
30:09
SPEAKER_02: And my thought this year was to maybe do it for a little bit of time and then see how you know, I think that it'll go well that way, but then maybe do it a second time.
30:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
30:18
SPEAKER_02: And but depending on whether or not they're gonna be a little bit more.
30:20
SPEAKER_04: Almost treat it like a summer camp.
30:22
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, just all summer camps the other week or a tight.
30:24
SPEAKER_02: You know, I don't know.
30:26
SPEAKER_02: But I'm not sure if I haven't thought it all through entirely, but like last year they were so thrilled about it.
30:31
SPEAKER_02: And so I'm not I'm I'm hesitant to like make that change because it did work really well last year to do on a big trip.
30:37
SPEAKER_02: But I at the same time, I was like, well, at the same time, I want it to kind of to be different, right?
30:42
SPEAKER_02: And not always the same.
30:43
SPEAKER_02: Keep them interested.
30:44
SPEAKER_02: And yeah.
30:46
SPEAKER_02: So we'll see how that goes.
30:47
SPEAKER_02: But I did have that year of like failure that I mentioned.
30:51
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, tell me about that.
30:53
SPEAKER_02: So like that was in that was two summers ago in 2015.
30:56
SPEAKER_02: And I think that there were like It was a busy summer.
30:59
SPEAKER_02: It was.
31:00
SPEAKER_02: That was part of it.
31:00
SPEAKER_02: It was it didn't it was unexpected.
31:03
SPEAKER_02: Like I didn't expect that well, it was just I I think I didn't take into account travel.
31:10
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
31:11
SPEAKER_02: And I didn't um take into account well, I didn't know, but my parents had some health challenges.
31:17
SPEAKER_02: So that contributed to some of like the time we were just doing other things that I didn't really count on, you know.
31:24
SPEAKER_02: Right.
31:25
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
31:25
SPEAKER_02: Just some things time sometimes things until happening and um and then um I had made a reward.
31:33
SPEAKER_02: I thought they'd be excited about going to Great Wolf Lodge.
31:36
SPEAKER_02: Oh I would.
31:38
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I know, right?
31:39
SPEAKER_02: Everyone, every kid's dream.
31:41
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, come on.
31:42
SPEAKER_02: And Bill had taken them there and I hadn't gone, but I had been out of town and he took them there earlier that year.
31:48
SPEAKER_02: So I knew that they were thrilled about it.
31:49
SPEAKER_02: I mean they talked about it all the time and they wanted to go back.
31:52
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
31:52
SPEAKER_02: Super bad.
31:53
SPEAKER_02: So that was like, okay, I'll make that the reward.
31:55
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
31:55
SPEAKER_02: But then I s I set my points a bit high.
31:58
SPEAKER_02: I think.
31:59
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
32:00
SPEAKER_02: And on top, so coupled with and then they didn't seem as excited about it for some reason.
32:04
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
32:05
SPEAKER_02: It didn't thrill them.
32:06
SPEAKER_02: And then things were busy and they thought their points, I think they thought their points were too high.
32:09
SPEAKER_02: And okay, you know, Linda talks about that in the book.
32:11
SPEAKER_02: But in any case, all that to say it just was a rough summer.
32:15
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it didn't happen.
32:16
SPEAKER_02: Well, uh, yeah.
32:17
SPEAKER_02: I remember you saying like, down in the face, that's why it is down in the like not even hanging up in the face.
32:23
SPEAKER_04: Maybe we talked a couple times and like it's okay, just keep going.
32:26
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
32:27
SPEAKER_04: Maybe adjust it.
32:28
SPEAKER_02: I know.
32:28
SPEAKER_02: And I didn't and I didn't, I ended up just scrapping it.
32:31
SPEAKER_02: Like and I they don't they didn't even talk about it, which I thought was so funny because they don't really remember.
32:37
SPEAKER_04: It was two years ago.
32:38
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
32:38
SPEAKER_02: Which it doesn't seem that long ago, Daddy.
32:40
SPEAKER_02: But and you know, it turns out that we didn't know it, but it they ended we ended up getting to go on a that cruise anyway.
32:48
SPEAKER_02: Oh, right.
32:49
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
32:49
SPEAKER_02: And that was only a couple months after summer ended.
32:53
SPEAKER_02: And Bill ended up super coming up with rewarding.
32:55
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and again, Bill saved things.
32:57
SPEAKER_02: He he came up with a he had like a chart.
33:00
SPEAKER_02: They didn't know about the trip.
33:01
SPEAKER_02: They didn't know, they just it was a surprise.
33:02
SPEAKER_02: And he had them work really hard before he told them what was going on.
33:06
SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's right.
33:07
SPEAKER_02: So it did sort of make up for the trip.
33:10
SPEAKER_02: That they yeah, I mean they didn't know that we did go bell to redeem that.
33:13
SPEAKER_04: I know.
33:13
SPEAKER_04: That's really good.
33:14
SPEAKER_04: He did.
33:15
SPEAKER_04: Well, one of the things you brought up, I I think both of us had talked about because I'm um finishing up the online workshop to how to create a simply summer.
33:24
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
33:24
SPEAKER_04: And a lot of the idea is that you don't even have to plan a whole super summer challenge, but there's a lot of ideas from super summer challenge that I learned in the process of making it that has made what I feel is a simply summer.
33:37
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
33:38
SPEAKER_04: And one of those we talked about was creating a schedule, looking at your summer schedule.
33:43
SPEAKER_04: And so now having done homeschooling, I've learned like planning the school year a little bit.
33:48
SPEAKER_04: So anyone who's a teacher or has to plan teaching or you know, lessons or anything like that can appreciate this.
33:56
SPEAKER_04: But I have a whole module on planning the summer so that at the end of that, you could do nothing else, move nothing else on the workshop.
34:06
SPEAKER_04: And just if you've done that, then you've created some sort of routine for your summer.
34:10
SPEAKER_04: And then you can see realistically, oh, I only really have one week.
34:15
SPEAKER_04: Yes.
34:16
SPEAKER_04: And, you know, time to do a super summer channel.
34:18
SPEAKER_04: So, like you said, the 10 days.
34:20
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
34:20
SPEAKER_04: Or, you know, or like, oh my word, I have nothing planned for my kids.
34:24
SPEAKER_04: We're all gonna go crazy.
34:26
SPEAKER_04: I better plan something.
34:27
SPEAKER_04: Right.
34:27
SPEAKER_02: I need your little module there about.
34:30
SPEAKER_04: No, it's it's it's all it's all yours.
34:32
SPEAKER_04: I'm totally gonna No, don't you know?
34:35
SPEAKER_04: You have to like take and you have to tell me what you think.
34:37
SPEAKER_04: I think I will.
34:38
SPEAKER_04: But yeah, no, I I know we talked about that a couple times because I think um the concept of super summer challenge is awesome.
34:44
SPEAKER_04: I think for some people it completely overwhelms them.
34:47
SPEAKER_04: But that's why I wanted to do create a workshop is to just take them step by step in the process.
34:52
SPEAKER_04: And no matter where you where you're at with your season of life, just do even the first one that gets you down the road.
34:58
SPEAKER_04: Maybe the first summer you try it out and you do just the calendar and time planning.
35:04
SPEAKER_04: And then the next summer you kind of take on module tool two and you add some of those tools in there, and then kind of so on and so forth.
35:11
SPEAKER_04: Just kind of add to it.
35:12
SPEAKER_04: And like, you know, some people maybe more like me, I'll be like, Oh, I'm gonna take it all, you're gonna do it all.
35:17
unknown: Yeah.
35:18
SPEAKER_04: And I probably wouldn't do it well the first time, but you know, yeah.
35:22
SPEAKER_04: Um, just kind of the idea to give different inspiration.
35:25
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
35:26
SPEAKER_02: Because if it's overwhelming, then you could just take it piece by piece.
35:28
SPEAKER_02: Yes, exactly.
35:29
SPEAKER_02: And having a a routine and that sort of thing set up would be a really good idea.
35:34
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'm planning that I, you know, once again, Bill had suggested that to me last year and I didn't do it.
35:40
SPEAKER_04: He's kind of smart.
35:42
SPEAKER_04: You're wearing a smart go.
35:44
SPEAKER_04: That's great.
35:45
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, because one year, one year that I really discovered this is that I felt like I didn't have the um mental margin to plan the super summer challenge yet, but I could see that if I gave them um time blocks of the day, that that would work really well for them, especially for my oldest who who likes that boundary and that structure.
36:05
SPEAKER_04: Um, if I told her, okay, so you know, this and this time breakfast is happening, our morning routine happens, and then here and here we're gonna either, you know, we're gonna choose from like um I had different ideas written on a piece of paper.
36:17
SPEAKER_04: We're gonna choose from this, and we're gonna do one of these activities.
36:20
SPEAKER_04: And some of it obviously were kind of like how you talked about you got them started on active activities.
36:25
SPEAKER_04: Right.
36:25
SPEAKER_04: And then and they kept going and you got to do your, you know, like catch up and wash or the dishes, you know, yeah, that sort of thing.
36:31
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, but anyway, that helps.
36:33
SPEAKER_02: Oh, but that totally makes sense.
36:34
SPEAKER_02: And it it reminds me because like one of the questions that I will always remember, my kids always would say they they don't they aren't saying it as much now, but when they were smaller, what are we doing tomorrow?
36:44
SPEAKER_02: What are we doing?
36:45
SPEAKER_02: Yes, always that was what they want to know later.
36:47
SPEAKER_02: And in the summer, I get that question more, I think, because they don't know exactly what to explain.
36:51
SPEAKER_02: School's not school's not happening, and right now during school, it's not such a question because they know what's going on.
36:56
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
36:56
SPEAKER_02: But once summer hits, oh for sure that will be the question.
36:59
SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah.
37:00
SPEAKER_04: And they do like where I say goodnight, my 10-year-old dad is what is she's asked.
37:04
SPEAKER_04: So what's on the you know they want to know tomorrow.
37:07
SPEAKER_04: They do.
37:07
SPEAKER_04: Like, I don't know, I just gotta go to sleep.
37:11
SPEAKER_04: We'll do something, I'm sure.
37:12
SPEAKER_04: We'll worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.
37:14
SPEAKER_04: I mean, yeah.
37:15
SPEAKER_04: I can't guarantee it.
37:17
SPEAKER_04: But yeah, no, I love, I almost love just because um the school year, just homeschooling, it looks so unique, and I love the idea of the super summer challenge.
37:25
SPEAKER_04: And I'm a little bit better about clear, you know, clearly putting out there like this is what our summer days look like because it does drive me crazy to be used all the time.
37:34
SPEAKER_04: What's next?
37:34
SPEAKER_04: What's next?
37:35
SPEAKER_04: Right.
37:35
SPEAKER_04: So I mean they're getting better about it.
37:37
SPEAKER_04: But yeah, you know, and I get it.
37:38
SPEAKER_04: I was kind of that way too.
37:39
SPEAKER_04: Yes.
37:40
SPEAKER_04: Maybe still am, but that's great.
37:43
SPEAKER_04: So all right, so you're still in the planning phases for this next year.
37:46
SPEAKER_04: What's some of the stuff that um that you want to make sure that you incorporate or what makes you look forward to the summer?
37:53
SPEAKER_02: Well, I I had started thinking about this.
37:56
SPEAKER_02: Um I realized that um it would be good for them to kind of have their own time each day.
38:04
SPEAKER_02: Like every day I ha I have like a list of what I'm gonna be doing and having your own to-do list and learning to like plan like what you're gonna do for the day.
38:12
SPEAKER_02: And so, and I I didn't realize it, like I always have had well, I've just been a a paper to-do list person.
38:19
SPEAKER_02: I am too.
38:20
SPEAKER_02: Totally.
38:21
SPEAKER_02: So I I gave up a while back and decided, scratch that whole electronic calendar thing.
38:26
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
38:26
SPEAKER_02: I'm just gonna keep at this paper thing because I love it and it makes me happy and it works.
38:31
SPEAKER_02: And so, um, anyway, and uh about well, I guess it was only a few months ago that I kind of discovered the whole bullet journaling thing that someone had told me about.
38:40
SPEAKER_02: And and um anyway, I realized that actually what I was doing with my paper was pretty much kind of a a method of my own like made up version of bullet journaling.
38:51
SPEAKER_02: Like I had my own system going on my notebook pad every day that I did.
38:55
SPEAKER_02: And um, and I've actually since sort of changed up to a little bit different planner system.
39:01
SPEAKER_02: Um, but I I kind of want to buy my kids notebooks this summer and have um, and I haven't exactly set it all out, but I want to have some things written in there for them and some some ideas, and I want to maybe have time every day at the beginning of the day.
39:16
SPEAKER_02: And I'm thinking kind of envisioning like at breakfast time probably.
39:19
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
39:20
SPEAKER_02: Um, or after we've cleaned up from breakfast, but that we like sit down and say, Okay, here's something that you need to do, and then what's something that you want to do?
39:28
SPEAKER_02: And then they can pick something off their chart, but they're gonna write it down.
39:31
SPEAKER_02: And I may it could be a total flop.
39:34
SPEAKER_02: I have no idea how it will work.
39:36
SPEAKER_02: But I was thinking that it would be really good because Genevieve would practice writing then without really me saying that you're practicing writing.
39:43
SPEAKER_02: Everyone's just everyone's just writing down something.
39:45
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
39:45
SPEAKER_02: I don't know that Liam will want to try to do it in cursive because that's like right now he hates doing it.
39:50
SPEAKER_02: But in any case, but you know what I mean?
39:51
SPEAKER_02: It would just be like an opportunity to like they can write stuff down and then they can cross it off their list as they do it.
39:56
SPEAKER_02: And I don't remind them then.
39:58
SPEAKER_02: Like they could just look at their list.
40:00
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
40:00
SPEAKER_02: And if they want to write down things, you know, more than what I suggest, then that's fine.
40:04
SPEAKER_02: They can write down several things.
40:05
SPEAKER_02: But I thought if I give them points perhaps for writing some things in their journal or their list or their to-do, whatever we end up calling it, yeah.
40:13
SPEAKER_02: And then and then crossing those off and do, you know, accomplishing those.
40:17
SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's great.
40:18
SPEAKER_02: I'm wondering if that will help them so that they learn.
40:20
SPEAKER_02: I mean, they already do some, you know, they in in school they have an agenda, but this is just kind of their own personality.
40:26
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, creating that intrinsic reward.
40:29
SPEAKER_04: That's what I'm hoping.
40:30
SPEAKER_04: That like, you know, feeling self-satisfaction of like, oh, I cook everyone likes crossing off a list, no matter who you are.
40:35
SPEAKER_04: So and no matter electronic or anything else.
40:37
SPEAKER_02: So that kind of develops.
40:38
SPEAKER_02: So I'm hoping that that will be something that will be a great habit that they start this year.
40:43
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
40:43
SPEAKER_04: I love see how it goes.
40:44
SPEAKER_04: I love it.
40:45
SPEAKER_04: Okay, I have two more questions I want to make sure I get to, and then I know you gotta run to baseball practice.
40:50
SPEAKER_04: But one of them was how do you incorporate what they want to do or um rewards and all that when you do the planning?
40:58
SPEAKER_04: What does that look like for you?
41:00
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I I don't usually ask them too much, but I wonder if I should.
41:05
SPEAKER_02: But I usually I just think about what they like doing already.
41:08
SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
41:09
SPEAKER_02: Like, for example, when we mentioned Genevieve earlier, she loves art, she loves crafty things.
41:13
SPEAKER_02: So if I put that stuff on there, she will do it.
41:16
SPEAKER_02: And I've already collected a couple things like that I've bought that'll keep her busy.
41:21
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
41:21
SPEAKER_02: Um, but you know, like I said, like I'll put I'm I'm thinking that I'll put on hers to make a painting.
41:27
SPEAKER_02: And she if she and I don't mind if she wants to watch a Bob Ross, you know.
41:31
SPEAKER_02: Because he has some on uh, you know, that that she can watch and do.
41:34
SPEAKER_02: And she was doing it the other day, it was great.
41:37
SPEAKER_02: She was so into it.
41:38
SPEAKER_02: I could imagine her spending a lot of time doing that, you know?
41:40
SPEAKER_02: And that's totally fine.
41:41
SPEAKER_02: And then, you know, if the other kids wanted to jump in, well, great.
41:44
SPEAKER_02: But in any case, um, so things like that she enjoys.
41:47
SPEAKER_02: Like I always, if I put on there, like I mean not like you said, Liam likes baseball.
41:51
SPEAKER_02: If I put on there to practice baseball, he'll happily go outside and do baseball and practice.
41:56
SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
41:56
SPEAKER_02: Like even if it's hot, like he doesn't like going outside to play.
41:59
SPEAKER_02: Sometimes if I say, Hey, go outside and play.
42:00
SPEAKER_02: But if if it's like, oh, I'm gonna go earn points and practice baseball.
42:04
SPEAKER_02: Have something specific to do, he'll go out and do it.
42:06
SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
42:06
SPEAKER_02: And then, you know, ginger, she's doing volleyball, and so she if I put on there, she she likes volleyball.
42:11
SPEAKER_02: If I put on there that to practice it, she will go and do that.
42:14
SPEAKER_02: So you're just really tuned into their interests.
42:15
SPEAKER_02: So they like and I'm you know, and they do love reading, so that's always easy to put on there.
42:21
SPEAKER_02: And like they said, I have to imagine.
42:24
SPEAKER_02: I know, I got lucky with that.
42:26
SPEAKER_02: And I think the older two hopefully rub off on G to be.
42:29
SPEAKER_02: But you know, that's great.
42:30
SPEAKER_02: Um so yeah, I in fact in the scheduling time I kind of want to s I kind of want to like I envision this, and it's probably like yeah in my head not but a time where everyone reads together.
42:41
SPEAKER_02: Yes, like where we all sit and read, and we're just sitting in a family room and it's quiet and we're all reading.
42:45
SPEAKER_02: I love it.
42:45
SPEAKER_02: You should at least do that once a week.
42:47
SPEAKER_04: And then tell me how that goes.
42:48
SPEAKER_02: Maybe once a week is a more attainable goal than every day.
42:51
SPEAKER_02: Right.
42:51
SPEAKER_02: Because in my head I'd be like, oh, this would be awesome every day.
42:53
SPEAKER_02: Every day, but it's not reality.
42:55
SPEAKER_02: But once a week is it's completely attainable.
42:57
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, even if it was just a repeat.
42:58
SPEAKER_02: Because then I could read too, and I wouldn't feel bad about sitting down to read.
43:01
SPEAKER_02: Like I sometimes just don't feel like I have time for that.
43:04
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
43:04
SPEAKER_04: Now, Bill obviously, and I'm sorry, I said I had two more questions.
43:07
SPEAKER_04: I missed that one because I just think I love how Bill, your husband, actually had a lot of input in years past.
43:13
SPEAKER_04: Um, is that common for him, or is that just him kind of stepping and going, Oh, hey, you should do this, or do you ask him?
43:19
SPEAKER_02: No, it I think that it just and early on I don't remember him saying much about it, and I came up with them, but I think that over time he's just you know realized that it works well, and he's like, Oh, well, hey, here's an idea for this.
43:32
SPEAKER_02: Or it I think last year I probably did mention to him like I was probably concerned about you know, the previous year had been hard.
43:39
SPEAKER_02: Right.
43:39
SPEAKER_02: How am I gonna make this year like how am I gonna Yeah?
43:42
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
43:43
SPEAKER_02: And so I probably we we talked it over and he was like, I have an idea.
43:47
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I know that he saw a few years on time.
43:53
SPEAKER_02: You know, and he would, whichever kid, I think they need to work on such and such for their for their super summer challenge.
43:58
SPEAKER_02: And it'd be like, Oh great.
44:00
SPEAKER_02: I'll take that if yeah, absolutely.
44:02
SPEAKER_04: I love it when I hear it from his perspective because it's very different.
44:05
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
44:06
SPEAKER_04: They just have a good, unique outside perspective.
44:09
SPEAKER_04: Um, yeah, I know the other thing too we can ask is teachers, grandparents, aunts and uncles, people who are close to our kids, or maybe like a child care provider that you know you use all the time.
44:17
SPEAKER_04: They're a great one to get ideas from.
44:18
SPEAKER_04: Yes.
44:19
SPEAKER_04: Um, okay, the last one for real this time.
44:21
SPEAKER_04: Uh, what would you say to you know, moms or maybe even grandparents or like the aunts and uncles um who are hearing about the super summer challenge, they think they like it, but they're not really sure.
44:32
SPEAKER_04: What are just some things that you would say, I think you would really want to at least try it once.
44:37
SPEAKER_04: Oh, yeah.
44:38
SPEAKER_02: Hmm.
44:39
SPEAKER_04: Um and I know I didn't ask you ahead of time.
44:42
SPEAKER_04: No, that's okay.
44:44
SPEAKER_02: Well, I mean, I think that I would just say, you know, just try it out, go for it, do it small, yeah, so that you're not overwhelmed by like an entire summer, especially if they're really young kids.
44:55
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
44:55
SPEAKER_02: And you know, you can always tell yourself that you'll scrap it if it's not going well.
45:00
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
45:00
SPEAKER_02: You don't have to that's right.
45:02
SPEAKER_02: Adjust.
45:02
SPEAKER_02: Just tell your way if it's not working.
45:05
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, like adjust it, or you know, if it's not working, then go for the previous, you know, because Linda even mentions in her book that when she first tried it, it did not work the very first year.
45:13
SPEAKER_02: Right.
45:13
SPEAKER_02: So, like I would say, and so I mean even all that to say, even if you tried it and it didn't work out that first time, you can always revisit it again later another year or later that summer.
45:24
SPEAKER_02: Right.
45:25
SPEAKER_02: Because just makes sense.
45:26
SPEAKER_02: It may not work for the first time.
45:27
SPEAKER_02: Maybe you'll have to like you might have to try it.
45:31
SPEAKER_02: You know, and get a sense and sometimes you have to fail in order to succeed.
45:34
SPEAKER_04: And you know, you have to know what doesn't work and maybe even for your kids to know, like, oh, she's really serious.
45:40
SPEAKER_04: We won't get a reward if we don't do this.
45:42
SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah.
45:43
unknown: Yes.
45:45
SPEAKER_04: That's really important.
45:46
SPEAKER_04: You don't give the reward unless they really do earn it because then it defeats them.
45:50
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
45:50
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
45:51
SPEAKER_04: We haven't I've never been to Great Wolf Lodge still.
45:53
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, me either, actually.
45:55
SPEAKER_04: I'm with you.
45:56
SPEAKER_04: We need to go do that.
45:57
SPEAKER_04: Maybe we need to do girls week.
45:59
SPEAKER_04: We're not like in the middle of the winter when we're like BC Biton and Bathing Snows.
46:03
SPEAKER_04: Anyway.
46:03
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
46:04
SPEAKER_04: Jessica, thank you so much for joining us and like just sharing about this.
46:08
SPEAKER_04: I I'm really excited to just get this idea um into just more people's minds to try it out and to see how it that helps them redeem the time.
46:17
SPEAKER_04: Absolutely.
46:18
SPEAKER_04: You're welcome.
46:19
SPEAKER_04: It's been fun.
46:19
SPEAKER_04: Yes, yay.
46:20
SPEAKER_04: Thank you.
46:21
SPEAKER_05: Yes, thank you.
46:22
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
46:23
SPEAKER_04: All right, Haiti, what would you like to share about the Super Summer Challenge?
46:26
SPEAKER_01: Um that well, I really just enjoy that you have a challenge to complete and then you get rewarded with uh points like stickers or check marks that you get to put on the board.
46:47
SPEAKER_01: Or yeah, just okay.
46:50
SPEAKER_04: So how old are you, Haiti?
46:52
SPEAKER_04: I'm nine.
46:53
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
46:54
SPEAKER_04: So do you know how long you've been doing the super summer challenge?
46:58
SPEAKER_01: Well, I remember doing it at least for three years.
47:02
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, you remember that much?
47:03
SPEAKER_04: That's good.
47:04
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's been since you were about you were really young.
47:06
SPEAKER_04: You were about two when we first did.
47:10
SPEAKER_04: But mommy was desperate.
47:11
SPEAKER_04: I was pregnant with your brother, and I needed things for the necessary.
47:18
SPEAKER_03: It is.
47:27
SPEAKER_04: There you go.
47:30
SPEAKER_04: Okay, so what would you if if another kid asks about Supersummer Challenge, what would you say?
47:35
SPEAKER_01: I'd say you would really enjoy it because it's really fun.
47:40
SPEAKER_01: It um helps you build um good um skills, maybe good habits.
47:53
SPEAKER_01: Habits.
47:54
SPEAKER_01: Good habit, yes.
47:55
SPEAKER_01: Like making sure you brush your teeth so you get your teeth all cleaned.
48:00
SPEAKER_03: Is that on your super summer challenge?
48:02
SPEAKER_03: Would be would toothbrushing be on.
48:04
SPEAKER_01: I feel like when I was young when we were younger, we would we would have points like brushing teeth.
48:10
SPEAKER_01: We would have this different magnet board where we would put stick magnets on there that had certain kind of Yeah.
48:16
SPEAKER_04: We have tried every single kind of chart out there that we can do.
48:18
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, but yeah.
48:20
SPEAKER_04: Whatever it was, that one was pretty cool.
48:21
SPEAKER_04: We I think we still have it.
48:23
SPEAKER_04: What's something that you think we should do this year for Super Summer Challenge?
48:27
SPEAKER_01: Um Well come up with more like come up with more challenges, like swim five laps.
48:39
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, okay, and so because like last summer was two laps, right?
48:43
SPEAKER_01: Two laps for one point each or two.
48:47
SPEAKER_04: You're willing to up it to five laps for one point each?
48:51
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, because we have an Olympic size.
48:54
SPEAKER_04: Oh, can I come watch?
48:55
SPEAKER_04: Not we, but we go to.
48:57
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
49:02
SPEAKER_03: Okay, we have we have a little silent, yeah, a little emotioning between.
49:06
SPEAKER_03: What is your favorite kind of challenge?
49:08
SPEAKER_01: Um, my favorite would probably be keeping the house clean.
49:13
SPEAKER_01: What?
49:14
SPEAKER_01: She is my organizer.
49:16
SPEAKER_03: I have a house that I could challenge you to go.
49:20
SPEAKER_03: She will work for money and cash money and motivate my kids to be challenged to clean the house.
49:27
SPEAKER_03: I bet you should get team organization.
49:31
SPEAKER_03: Oh man, oh, I seriously might need you to come hang out with Riley and have a good time.
49:35
SPEAKER_03: There you go.
49:36
SPEAKER_03: And that'd be fun.
49:36
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
49:37
SPEAKER_01: I like cleaning up my room a lot.
49:39
SPEAKER_04: Those are those are kind of easy points for Haiti is any cleaning project.
49:42
SPEAKER_04: I I can tell that organize a closet for either money during the school year or points and during the summer.
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SPEAKER_03: Easy does an amazing thing.
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SPEAKER_04: Easy points, easy money.
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SPEAKER_03: It is.
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SPEAKER_03: What ones are harder?
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SPEAKER_03: What ones do you're like, ugh, not my favorite?
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SPEAKER_01: Um probably the pogo stick, because that's really hard.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not that bouncy.
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SPEAKER_03: Pogo stick.
50:03
SPEAKER_03: You can really fun challenges.
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SPEAKER_03: I'm like thinking these are going to be hard work challenges.
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SPEAKER_03: No, you've got to be on.
50:09
SPEAKER_03: If you don't know how to do the pogo stick.
50:10
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you can have fun.
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unknown: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: And our pogo stick, we probably need to uh do an upgrade.
50:14
SPEAKER_04: You know, just like that bouncy.
50:16
SPEAKER_04: You may need to get a new one.
50:18
SPEAKER_04: But they tried.
50:18
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
50:18
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, we always like it.
50:20
SPEAKER_04: It's even like going outside and riding your bike for a certain amount of time.
50:23
SPEAKER_04: Because it does get hot.
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SPEAKER_01: Dad dared me um to do fifty um do a back and forth um for a hundred dollars.
50:31
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I don't think I could do that.
50:35
SPEAKER_04: You couldn't do that.
50:36
SPEAKER_04: I could not do it.
50:38
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
50:38
SPEAKER_04: I need a helmet and like shin guards.
50:41
SPEAKER_04: Body body on my body.
50:42
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, body guard body.
50:44
SPEAKER_04: Body armor.
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SPEAKER_04: Chainmail for sure.
50:47
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
50:47
SPEAKER_04: All right, Paige, I'm gonna have you go ahead and go.
50:49
SPEAKER_04: Because I think your brother's hungry, so I don't know if you'll share much.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, so I remember my our um our awards from last year was um I think one point a piece no, five points a piece of chocolate, ten points um uh bowl of ice cream, um sorry, one scoop um of ice cream, and then uh 15 was watch a show during rest time.
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SPEAKER_01: And then twenty.
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SPEAKER_01: That was a hard one.
51:19
SPEAKER_01: I don't remember that, but I think that's the date one.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I think that's easy to have a date with mom or dad.
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SPEAKER_03: So how long does it take to get these points?
51:26
SPEAKER_01: Um it it didn't take long at all, actually.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, me and my sister were pretty much ahead because I love reading, and my favorite book I'm into right into right now is Nancy Drew.
51:40
SPEAKER_01: It's I like the like adventures.
51:43
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
51:44
SPEAKER_01: Um I and I think 25 was uh maybe a friend or a sleepover.
51:52
SPEAKER_01: Oh yes, a sleepover.
51:55
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: And I always looked forward to that and we always wanted to have like a certain friend do it.
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SPEAKER_01: And we got to do it once, but then they were afraid for the rest of the time because it takes a while to um get the point to get the 25 points, but it it usually takes about two weeks to get 25 points.
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SPEAKER_01: Um but yeah, and I I also like my favorite part of the super summer challenge is um the fun and the activities that your mom gives you to do.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um I think our mom is perfect to um make the voices.
52:34
SPEAKER_04: I didn't pay her for that one.
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SPEAKER_03: How many points are you getting for that?
52:40
SPEAKER_04: I haven't started yet.
52:42
SPEAKER_04: That's hilarious.
52:43
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, the you know Paige has her own podcast.
52:47
SPEAKER_04: I didn't know that.
52:48
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, so she records the Mindy Glayhorn.
52:51
SPEAKER_04: Oh my god.
52:54
SPEAKER_01: Um like three people in my podcast and called True Confessions or something because I hear all the time.
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SPEAKER_04: That was my last one.
53:08
SPEAKER_01: That was my last one.
53:09
SPEAKER_01: It was like 30 minutes and it was the longest one.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm like, this is my longest one.
53:13
SPEAKER_01: Yay! Um so you're by yourself?
53:16
SPEAKER_01: Um sometimes I with hate, or just sometimes I just make up my own voice.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I thought that's very entertaining.
53:22
SPEAKER_03: I'd like to take a listen.
53:23
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, where's this?
53:24
SPEAKER_03: I have to publish that sometimes.
53:26
SPEAKER_03: I'll have to send you.
53:27
SPEAKER_04: That's good.
53:28
SPEAKER_04: I like it.
53:29
SPEAKER_04: All right, that's great.
53:30
SPEAKER_04: Thanks you guys for sharing.
53:33
SPEAKER_04: Well, friends, I hope you enjoyed that conversation as much as I did.
53:37
SPEAKER_04: Certainly listening to the kids brought a big smile to my face.
53:41
SPEAKER_04: And I hope it brought some joy to your life today.
53:44
SPEAKER_04: If you haven't already listened to Linda Wicks, the conversation with her about Supersummer Challenge, be sure and do that now, and you'll find a little bit more about the history of how it all began over 30 years ago.
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SPEAKER_04: And if you would like some more tips on how to create a Simply Summer, be sure and go to SupersummerChallenge.com where you can print off our 50 free boredombuster ideas and get on the wait list for the Simply Summer workshop that's coming opening in just a few days.
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SPEAKER_04: Hurry up because it will only be available for just a few weeks here at the beginning of the summer.
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SPEAKER_04: In the meantime, I hope you create more unplugged, purposeful, and intentional moments.
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SPEAKER_04: See you next time!