103 An Unprogrammed Weekend, and Teaching the Importance of Giving Back

About this episode

The episode discusses the relief of having an unstructured weekend and the importance of teaching children to give back to the community.

If you can hear a slight sigh of relief in my voice today, it’s because I’m looking at my digital calendar for this Saturday and Sunday, and for the first time in - I don’t know - two months? There are no blue blocks. No alerts. No "Departure in 15 minutes" notifications. In the second part of today’s episode, I talk about gratitude as an action and why it's important to us to teach our kids to give back to our community. Thanks for listening!

People in this episode

Host: Backup Parent

Topics covered

• gratitude
• community service
• family activities
• unstructured time
• teaching values

Keywords

• unprogrammed weekend
• gratitude
• giving back
• family
• community

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