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Steal This System for the Best Summer Ever
A 90-Day Plan for Working Parents
You Only Have 18 Summers
I’m a broken record with this, but it’s such an urgent, vivid reminder: You only get 18 summers with your children. 18!
If that isn’t shock enough, it’s also a tricky time of year. Intuitively, it feels like it will slow down. School is nearly over, the days are getting longer, and the anticipation of 57 million kids counting down to pool time smells like overripe coconuts.
But between camp and travel (hooray, travel!), there’s a bittersweet element too. Summer is sweet but so so short and as busy as can be. It will come and go in an instant, and then the typical fall whirlwind signals the holiday crazies, and that’s that — another season, another summer, another year — POOF. Gone. So very fleeting.
Stop the Madness
This summer will be different. We’ve learned a lot in the last two years, and now, it’s time to apply the lessons. This plan is only five steps and should take less than an hour. It’s an investment now and in your future, because you’ll be making lifetime memories and implementing a 90-day system that might make you think differently about…
