Ep 73 - When Kids' Sports Take Over Your Schedule: We Took a Season Off… Here’s What Happened
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If you have kids in sports, you know how quickly kids’ sports schedules can take over family life.
Practices after school. Games during the week. Travel on the weekends. Dinner happening whenever you can squeeze it in between car rides and gym bleachers.
At some point you look at the calendar and think… how did it get this full?
In this episode, I share a small behind-the-scenes shift our family experienced recently when both of our kids decided to take a season off basketball.
At first, the quiet felt strange. When you’re used to constant practices and games, open evenings can almost feel… wrong.
But after a few weeks, something else started to happen. Our evenings slowed down in a way that felt surprisingly good.
More time at home. More sleep. More conversations around the fireplace. Less rushing out the door.
This episode isn't criticizing youth sports or saying families should cut activities. Sports can be an incredible part of growing up.
It’s simply a reflection on something many parents quietly wonder about when life starts to feel like one long shuttle between practices and games.
What would it feel like to have a little more margin in a busy family schedule?
And sometimes the simplest way to create that breathing room isn’t adding a new productivity system.
Sometimes it’s just… less.
If you’d like more ideas for creating space in your week, you can grab my free guide called Get 10 Hours Back, where I share the strategies I personally use to create more breathing room in my week... so habits like movement, rest, nutrition, and self-care have space to exist.
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