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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Good morning. This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before breakfast podcast. Today's tip is that morning time can be family time.
If weekday evenings feel shorter than you would like, or even if they don't, morning hours can offer a great opportunity to connect if you are intentional about this space.
Today's tip, like some others this week, comes from my book, I Know How She Does It, which came out 10 years ago this month.
For the book, I collected time diary data from 1 ,001 days in the lives of women with big jobs and families.
I found that in the 168 hours that make up a week, it is possible to work, spend time with family, sleep, exercise, read, or do anything you truly care about.
Lots of people are successfully having it all.
even people with intense jobs often do wind up spending a reasonable amount of time with their children but one reason it doesn't always feel like it is that we often only count the time in the evening so if you get home from work at six and you've got young kids who go to bed at 7 30 then it feels like you've only got 90 minutes a day with them but this ignores the mornings which exist. And if you've got kids who go to bed at 7 .30pm, my sense is that those morning hours can be quite long.
I was talking with a lawyer once who told me that she never saw her son due to her intense billable schedule, and her son was about the same age as my toddler at the time.
Then we moved on to different topics and she started chatting about toddler wake -up times.
I was whining about my kid being up at the crack of dawn, and she said, me too.
Well, turns out her kid was often waking up at about 5 .30 a .m. and she left for work at 8.
This was literally two and a half hours that she was not seeing at all.
Now, obviously, people do need to get ready in the morning, but my guess is that this is not a two -hour process.
Especially if you do have kids who are up early, you can easily turn morning time time into family time if you think about using this window so what would you like to do with it you and your kids could have a real breakfast together if you wanted if it's summer you could go outside and play or go for a stroller walk what a great way to get some exercise if you have a play area you could get your coffee and go sit there and set an alarm and then just relax until until it goes off.
Even if you don't have young kids, if you feel like you and your partner are often just ships passing in the night, perhaps you could use the morning hours for connecting.
Eat breakfast together a few days a week.
Decide to get up on time so you have 20 minutes to sit together and chat.
You can set an alarm so no one needs to be watching the clock.
You could go exercise together or whatever you like.
I know many people who listen to a show called Before Breakfast have elaborate morning routines and that is wonderful.
But we often think of morning routines as being solo things and they can be but they don't need to be.
Build family time into your mornings and it will happen.
And you can start your day knowing you did something good.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening.
And here's to making the most of our time.
Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at laura at lauravandercam .com.
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