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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip is a reminder that many hands do make light work.

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Speaker 1: Use the saved time to reward those hands with your

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Speaker 1: presence and they might be more eager to help the

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Speaker 1: next time. So I'm guessing that many people listening to

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Speaker 1: this podcast do a big chunk of the chores at

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Speaker 1: their homes. It can be easy to feel resentful, and

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Speaker 1: we talked in a recent episode about making the rest fair.

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Speaker 1: In some cases it is wise to trade off. But

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Speaker 1: for many chores, doing them to gather with multiple people

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Speaker 1: can make them go a lot faster than if only

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Speaker 1: one person does them. For instance, cleaning the kitchen after

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Speaker 1: a meal can be a fast process if one person

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Speaker 1: is clearing the table, someone else is packing up leftovers,

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Speaker 1: someone else is putting things in the dishwasher, and someone

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Speaker 1: else is starting any hand washing that needs to get done.

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Speaker 1: Taking out the trash is quite a production in my

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Speaker 1: house as we have a long driveway, but if each

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Speaker 1: child over the age of nine or so takes a

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Speaker 1: can down, it is a one trip deal. Same with

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Speaker 1: taking the cans back up. One person going back and

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Speaker 1: forth can take twenty minutes to grab five cans. I'm

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Speaker 1: serious that it is a long driveway. If I let

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Speaker 1: four children out at the bottom of the hill when

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Speaker 1: we're coming home from something, and they each take one

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Speaker 1: to two cans, depending on age, this is just a

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Speaker 1: three to four minute job. It is good to share

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Speaker 1: chores to make sure everyone is contributing, but beyond that,

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Speaker 1: when sharing chores freeze up time, that time can then

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Speaker 1: be used. Many times, kids or even spouses want the

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Speaker 1: person who is doing most of the chores to spend

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Speaker 1: more time with them, so make this a clear trade off.

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Speaker 1: I will watch a video with you on your favorite

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel after we take out the cans together. If

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Speaker 1: we don't take them together, we won't have time to

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Speaker 1: do it. Or I'd love to play pool with you

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Speaker 1: all after we clean the kitchen together. If I don't

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Speaker 1: have help with the kitchen, though, I won't have enough

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Speaker 1: time to play pool before I need to start the

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Speaker 1: bedtime routine. For younger kids, many hands make light work. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the work has to get done, but when the work

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Speaker 1: is lighter, there is more time.

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Speaker 2: When this time is spent having fun together. Doing that

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Speaker 2: work together probably seems more appealing. It might be worth

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Speaker 2: letting people know that. In the meantime, this is Laura.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of

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Speaker 2: our taks. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've

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Speaker 2: got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach.

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Speaker 1: Me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.

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