Summary: How to have more fun with our kids. It is OK if you feel like you aren't enjoying your kids and if having fun with them is not happening or is hard to do. <br> <br> There are a lot of reasons why we aren't having fun and I want to talk about those and then share ways to bring fun into your family, on purpose<br> <br> <br> <br> In this episode we talk about:<br> <br> * The cultural image that makes parenting look fun will be easy and natural. And part of us holds onto this stock photo dream of family fun. <br> <br> * <a title="Is Motherhood What You Envisioned It To Be?" href="https://simpleonpurpose.ca/envision-motherhood/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Is Motherhood What You Envisioned It To Be?</a><br> <br> <br> * The culture of fun in your family and where people in your family are getting their 'fun'<br> <br> * <a title="9 Simple Ways to Cultivate Your Family Culture" href="https://simpleonpurpose.ca/building-family-culture-moms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">9 Simple Ways to Cultivate Your Family Culture</a><br> <br> <br> * Letting the day build up into a stress mountain vs having small redirects in our day<br> <br> * <a title="When Did I Stop Enjoying My Kids? (and my journey back to enjoying them)" href="https://simpleonpurpose.ca/dont-enjoy-kids/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">When Did I Stop Enjoying My Kids? (and my journey back to enjoying them)</a><br> * <a title="55. Tips to move out of the stress response and into resilience" href="https://simpleonpurpose.ca/episode55/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">55. Tips to move out of the stress response and into resilience</a><br> <br> <br> * Distractions from harder emotions vs honouring our emotions and doing something to help us move on<br> <br> * <a title="120. Teaching our kids emotional intelligence" href="https://simpleonpurpose.ca/teaching-kids-emotional-intelligence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">120. Teaching our kids emotional intelligence</a><br> * <a title="Parenting Book: Review for Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child" href="https://simpleonpurpose.ca/review-emotionally-intelligent-child/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Parenting Book: Review for Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child</a><br> <br> <br> * Reasons why we aren't having fun with our kids<br> <br> * <a title="162. Think the best of me, or not. Allowing the hard and awesome in ourselves and in our lives." href="https://simpleonpurpose.ca/hard-and-awesome-let-go-of-ego/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">162. Think the best of me, or not. Allowing the hard and awesome in ourselves and in our lives.</a><br> * <a title="76. Why it matters what you think (limiting mindsets in motherhood)" href="https://simpleonpurpose.ca/limiting-mindsets-motherhood/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">76. Why it matters what you think (limiting mindsets in motherhood)</a><br> * <a title="Four steps to manage overwhelm in motherhood" href="https://simpleonpurpose.ca/overwhelmed-mom-life-coach-steps/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Four steps to manage overwhelm in motherhood</a><br> * <a title="25. Working through unhappiness in motherhood, life coaching steps for handling a bad day. Bonus Q+A Episode" href="https://simpleonpurpose.ca/ss25/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">25. Working through unhappiness in motherhood, life coaching steps for handling a bad day. Bonus Q+A Episode</a><br> <br> <br> * Making fun when things feel heavy<br> * Making fun happen, on purpose<br> <br> * Making a list<br> <br> * <a title="Simple and Easy Kid Activities (mega list of ideas)" href="https://simpleonpurpose.ca/fun-family-stuff/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Simple and Easy Kid Activities (mega list of ideas)</a><br> * <a href="https://simpleonpurpose.ca/my-minimalist-faves/#family" target="_blank" rel="noopener">some family fun suggestio...</a>
