The Deliberate Day Podcast | Taming the chaos of big family life for moms of many

Community is important in every aspect of life...even in homeschooling.

This doesn't mean you have to be involved in a co-op or homeschool group in your local area (although that CAN enrich your experience), but it DOES mean that finding your 'people' (either in-person or online) IS important.

Social media can get a bad rap (many times deserved) but it is a GREAT way to find new ideas, hear differing perspectives, and (if you're following uplifting accounts) see solutions you never would've considered (or even heard about) before!

With ALL these things in mind, and in an attempt to REALLY serve the mommas in our community, we've asked our good friend, fellow homeschool momma, and former co-op co-teacher Renee Amato to join us in asking (and answering) questions about two systems Brittany uses daily in her homeschool!

• Clipboards 101 (00:47)
• Tasks Included on the Clipboards (04:45)
• Using the Clipboards (07:15)
• The "Right" Number of Tasks (11:40)
• Examples of Tasks (14:05)
• When Kids Stop Doing the Work (16:20)
• Kids Taking the Lead (27:33)
• The Beauty of the Spiral Notebook (30:30)
• Getting Started and...Tickets (32:45)

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• Grab the Plan Like a Mother: Holiday Edition!
• Here's our Homeschool Plan Like A Mother Guide!
• Here's the Editable Homeschool Clipboard Template
• For the 12 Week Planner, click here! (Use code PODCASTMOM for 20% off!)
• Get your FREE Meal Planning Kit here.
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The holidays with kids are both incredibly beautiful and overwhelmingly full of challenges, like organizing all the people, planning meals, packing for trips or preparing for guests, not to mention all the gifts & MORE! This week we want to give you a peek behind the curtain, and tell you ALL about the holidays and traditions we celebrate in our homes. BUT, as you listen remember...we’re sharing ideas, customs, and traditions from over the years and how they’ve been shaped in the different seasons of motherhood. Your seasons will change, your capacity will change, and you still have plenty of time to try-on traditions to see what fits your family best. Get the MOST out of this episode when you click here and we’ll send you the 2022 Deliberate Day Holiday Planner AND get you on the list!

• Invite Your People In (01:40)
• The In-Laws (03:15)
• Just the Family (06:10)
• Britt’s Extended Family (12:45)
• Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at Tiff’s (15:20)
• How Are We Doing? (20:00)
• Recap (20:25)
• Invitation (20:50)

Go get our free holiday planner, made specifically with mommas in mind, it is filled with resources to help YOU plan the holidays this year (and stop letting the holidays plan you).

Here are a few of the pages you'll find inside:

• Holidays Thank You’s List
• Holiday Life Notes
• Resources We Love
• Recipes

You can find the link to get the Holiday Planner EVERYWHERE! It’s at www.thedeliberateday.org, send us a DM, e-mail at [email protected], and it’s right here (below) in the podcast notes!!

Happy holidays!

Find the complete podcast notes on our website.
To find The Deliberate Day on Instagram, click here.
Looking for items shared in our podcasts?!

• Grab the Plan Like a Mother: Holiday Edition!
• Here's our Homeschool Plan Like A Mother Guide!
• Here's the Editable Homeschool Clipboard Template
• For the 12 Week Planner, click here! (Use code PODCASTMOM for 20% off!)
• Get your FREE Meal Planning Kit here.
• For the Favorites List, go here.

"You are making something, you are making yourself."
-Donald Miller
How are we making ourselves? We are making ourselves with HABITS!
According to the Google, a habit is a "routine behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously."
Whether you realize it or not, you have habits. Good or bad, there are routine behaviors that fill your days. The key is to begin to CHOOSE more of those behaviors.
When we CHOOSE our habits, we can align them with our mini-goals, and ultimately our big goals and our why.
When we CHOOSE our habits, we can select to perform actions that are kind to tomorrow's us!
So, HOW do we CHOOSE our ONE (only ONE) new habit?
1. First, head over to https://www.deliberatedayjournal.com and get your Deliberate Start Guide (FREE)! This will help you REFLECT on key areas, ASSESS what you want in the future, and CREATE new goals aligned with your why!
2. Think of activities that align with your goals AND lend to a kindness to your future self.
3. Choose ONE (yes, only ONE) habit to start. Bonus points if you choose something that makes progress in more than one area (such as waking up early in the morning, or exercising with your people).
HOW do we START a new habit?
1. Consider things you are already doing. (Waking up, eating meals, picking kids up from school, nap time, etc).
2. Get creative, and consider your season of life. Maybe "reading" more for you right now looks a lot less like you sitting in your favorite chair for hours at a time, and a lot more like you enjoying an audible book on your way to the carpool line.
3. Start SMALL. Start with ONE (max two-if you are an overachiever). Do not overwhelm yourself. Lasting change happens in 1% increments. Be the turtle.
So! Go to https://www.deliberatedayjournal.com and get your FREE Deliberate START guide! If you need a good Habit Tracker, there is a fantastic page in the Deliberate Day Journal (which can also be found at the link above).

Find the complete podcast notes on our website.
To find The Deliberate Day on Instagram, click here.
Looking for items shared in our podcasts?!

• Grab the Plan Like a Mother: Holiday Edition!
• Here's our Homeschool Plan Like A Mother Guide!
• Here's the Editable Homeschool Clipboard Template
• For the 12 Week Planner, click here! (Use code PODCASTMOM for 20% off!)
• Get your FREE Meal Planning Kit here.
• For the Favorites List, go here.

You've probably heard the quote, "Well-behaved women seldom make history", but you might be surprised by what Laurel Thatcher Ulrich really meant by this statement, and once you hear it you'll never be able to hear this quote the same way.

Thatcher, a historian, author, educator, and mother of 5 dedicated her work to telling the quiet stories of ordinary people...and she won a Pulitzer Prize for it. Because, as she states, “it is in the very dailiness, the exhaustive, repetitious dailiness, that the real power lies... living has to be measured in doing.” and mommas...our lives are a very measure in doing, and doing, and doing.

Often this quote is misunderstood to mean that in order to change the world and make a difference we must be aggressive, loud, and bold...but it was merely to share that the quiet and compliant contributions of women rarely get attention or credit for their accomplishments. That's us mommas. We're living that truth every single day, because what we do. It matters. Oh man does it matter.

In our new series, "Just" a Mom, we are celebrating the beautiful stories of ordinary, well-behaved women...who we know are far more than what we see at first glance. The lives we are living have incredible beauty and power in them, and we want to share them with the world.

Welcome to the ‘Just a Mom’ Series...

• Just a Mom (01:50)
• Mildred Clima Granger (02:20)
• Wilma Noble (06:20)
• Invitation (08:53)

But we KNOW that EVERY momma has a story and wisdom to share! During this series, we’ll be highlighting different women (like you and I) who have done amazing things...and we’d love to feature YOU! Reach out to us @thedeliberateday on Instagram and we’ll share ALL the details!

Find the complete podcast notes on our website.
To find The Deliberate Day on Instagram, click here.
Looking for items shared in our podcasts?!

• Grab the Plan Like a Mother: Holiday Edition!
• Here's our Homeschool Plan Like A Mother Guide!
• Here's the Editable Homeschool Clipboard Template
• For the 12 Week Planner, click here! (Use code PODCASTMOM for 20% off!)
• Get your FREE Meal Planning Kit here.
• For the Favorites List, go here.

Summer is the time of year that everything goes off plan...even when you've taken time to plan well...you're still off routine and flying by the seat of your pants.

Asking yourself and your kids to go from that to perfectly planned days is madness...we need a transition period. Because it's a TRANSITION! And all life transitions need a bit more love in our opinion.

Whether you homeschool, public-school, private-school, or even no-school (I'm talking about our toddler moms). Summer shakes things up for everybody! It gets dark at different times, family and friends are visiting, the weather is changing, the activities ramp up...it really doesn't matter what stage of life you're in...life gets crazy in summer.

• The Week Before (01:33)
• Emotional & Mental Health (12:48)
• Be a Student of Your Children (30:05)
• Managing Our Emotions & Health (36:15)
• Takeaways (42:48)

Invitation (43:41)

We talked about meal planning being an anchor to the day, so if you don’t have our meal planning kit yet, go get it here!

Remember momma...you are doing beautiful work!

Find the complete podcast notes on our website.
To find The Deliberate Day on Instagram, click here.
Looking for items shared in our podcasts?!

• Grab the Plan Like a Mother: Holiday Edition!
• Here's our Homeschool Plan Like A Mother Guide!
• Here's the Editable Homeschool Clipboard Template
• For the 12 Week Planner, click here! (Use code PODCASTMOM for 20% off!)
• Get your FREE Meal Planning Kit here.
• For the Favorites List, go here.