Making Big Changes as a Family (with guest Jill Krause)
b"Have you ever considered selling the house, homeschooling the kids, and traveling for a year? Has a job or life change ever thrust a cross-country move, or other radical change, upon your family? Does the very notion strike terror in your heart?\\xa0 \\nIn this episode, we discuss how to prepare for\\u2014 and make\\u2014 big changes as a family. Change feels huger and scarier when you have kids, in part because routine and structure and familiarity are the things that kids crave, and need in order to survive. \\nBut our guest Jill Krause argues that structure, routine, and family togetherness can be found in all sorts of places. Jill\\u2019s Happy Loud Life YouTube channel has chronicled the travels of her family of six as they spent the last sixteen months touring the United States in an RV. With\\u2014 you read that right\\u2014 four children. Including a toddler. \\nSo nobody is saying radical change is easy. If it were, there\\u2019d be no point in undergoing it. But change is possible. And it doesn\\u2019t always mean permanent. What \\u201cchange\\u201d means, in fact, is entirely up to you and your family. \\nHere\\u2019s links to writing on this topic that we discuss in this episode: \\nI Miss You When I Blink, Mary Laura Philpott\\u2019s terrific new memoir on giving yourself permission to change\\nCarl Richards for NYT: Hesitant to Make That Big Life Change? Permission Granted\\nhealthychildren.org-\\xa0 Helping Children Adjust to a Move\\nPeaceful Parent Institute - Helping Children Adjust to Change\\nWe've partnered with a great new iPhone app called Airr that lets you save and share the best moments of this (or any!) podcast. With one click Airr captures the moments that stand out to you while you\\u2019re listening, and then allows you to send the clips to your friends or share them on social media. Airr is a free app that\\u2019s currently in private beta, but What Fresh Hell listeners can get early access to the app by going to http://bit.ly/airr-whatfreshhell.\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"