How We Added More Structure to our Family Weekend

by Jennifer Ebeling

I’m always fascinated to learn the ways families keep it all together. 

For us, it’s next to impossible to manage all we have going on without good systems – checklists, to-dos, calendars, organization, etc.

I love ‘em all.

So, at our family meeting, I had the kids help create a pie chart to represent how out of whack our weekends had become.

For one thing, there was too much video game time – and it was plain to see our weekends needed some shaping up in between the good stuff like move night, date night, and gopher basketball (those are keepers!).  

We decided needed to look at the core things that needed attention from the kids on the weekend – no matter what other things were on the calendar – and then provide the structure (time limits, expectations, standards) for each area.

So, we created a new pie chart – our ideal weekend guide (it’s on the fridge at this very moment) - for how to better use our weekend time moving forward.

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