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Hi, everyone! This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar Channel and in today's video I'll talk about the system that I use during the hours I have to work over the summer to keep my kids busy, make them do some chores, and reward them at the end of the week.  I am mostly a stay at home mom, but I do work part-time anywhere from 6-15 hours per week. Summer presents a problem for lots of parents.  When the kids were really little, I hired high school babysitters to help out several times a week so that I could get my work done in peace. Once they got a little older -- at the age where I could, occasionally and for short periods, leave them home alone, it started to feel weird to hire babysitters -- particularly since I was right there working in the house. Plus, they were old enough where I really felt like they should be expected to respect my work time and also get some of their own chores done.  So, the summer when they were 8 and 10, I introduced the Summer Poin...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll discuss how I use the AnyList app for shopping lists and errands.  This is part of a series on my ADHD brain and all of the systems I use to compensate for a lack of internal structure and organization. I'm the head procurement officer in my house.  One of my many quirks is that I absolutely HATE grocery shopping. I'd rather clean bathrooms than grocery shop -- really. Because of this, I only do it once a week. I will go to extreme lengths to avoid going more often than that.  I also have issues with running out to do a single errand. It feels like a giant waste of time. This must come from my childhood when we carefully budgeted gasoline and did our errands all at once and infrequently.  Because of these quirks, I require a good list system to remember the things we are running out of and errands that I need to run, so that I can do them all efficiently in one ru...