A Penny For Your Ideas

Weigh in on programs, child tech, and our renovation!

Tremendous huge bubbles of concepts!

New Course Concepts

I’ve been toying with the thought of constructing some new programs in subjects I’m obsessed with: well being and residential organizing.

Enjoyable reality: once I dreamed up the Digital Litter Course, I had actually needed to do a house organizing one first. But it surely felt a bit too overwhelming and never area of interest sufficient on the time, so I made a decision to focus in on simply the digital matter.

Now that I’ve constructed and marketed one course with success, I really feel extra assured in doing it once more!

I might like to gauge curiosity in these two subjects:

Prioritize Your Well being:

For those who as soon as had been health-focused however life received in the best way, this course will provide help to shift your psychological area on getting again to wholesome. Refresh your data on diet fundamentals, study methods for intuitive and aware consuming, and prepare to prioritize your well being once more with like-minded ladies.

I’m imagining this course to have two tiers: a cheaper self-guided content material that covers a breadth of subjects after which an add-on group / group teaching / live-taught side within Kajabi Communities.

I’d love to listen to your curiosity in every stage.

Residence Neat Residence:

Declutter and set up your property prime to backside. Use methods to go room by room and declutter, simplify, type, and set up. After you might have organized, implement programs to make your family run like a well-oiled machine. Truthfully this course would possibly come later in 2023 or 2024.

In case you are considering one in all these or each, and they’re one thing you’d pay for, please decide in right here.

Gizmo vs. Apple Watch vs. iPhone vs. Gabb

I believe I’ve written earlier than that Mazen has a Gizmo Watch. It’s a Verizon product that’s about $79 to purchase and $9 a month for the cellphone line. The opinions will not be glowing general, however it has been a terrific starter look ahead to us. He’s had it for 3 years now.

I actually like the flexibility to trace him through GPS and name or textual content him if wanted when he’s out within the neighborhood or staying to play Gaga after faculty. He’s additionally capable of name us when he’s at his dad’s home and vice versa.

Mazen’s Gizmo is working on its final leg, and I’m undecided we’d purchase one other one when this one bites the mud.

Communication and Monitoring are extra for me than for him

At age 10, Mazen has been wanting extra freedom to do issues with out dad and mom: stroll to high school, stroll to the downtown mall along with his associates, play across the neighborhood, and go for bike rides within the neighborhood.

At this level, we really feel that having some type of GPS and textual content/name system is turning into vital not a lot for him however for us. It’s an enormous peace of thoughts for me. So I’ve been debating choices for potential Christmas presents.

Plenty of his associates have began getting telephones

Earlier than you roll your eyes that I’m going at hand a ten 12 months outdated a model new iPhone with social media – please know that not the plan! His associates who’ve telephones have older generations and many parental controls, no social media, and so on. That may be our plan too.

I had one other mother of Mazen’s buddy inform me that she regarded into pay as you go choices, flip telephones, and so on. however including her youngsters to her Verizon plan and getting them outdated iPhones was the very best steadiness of GPS and use-ability for her.

I really feel {that a} watch can be the simplest for him to hold round, however a cellphone (in an Otterbox) would allow him to do primary pictures and Facetime when he isn’t at our home. I fear he would break it or neglect it at residence!

The Apple parental controls are unbelievable and we’re an all-Apple Home

We use the parental controls on Mazen’s iPad, and I’m able to monitor app exercise, set display deadlines, and switch off all apps at a sure time. He’s additionally unable to obtain new apps or make purchases with out approval from my account. So I’ve been leaning towards getting an iPhone.

I’ve been researching the brand new Apple Watch SE (it’s marketed nearly as good for youths) vs. an older iPhone vs. another choice like Gabb wi-fi.

I might love to listen to from dad and mom of preteens and teenagers you probably have any recommendation!

Renovation Replace!

This isn’t a lot a query however an replace on our residence renovation! (Learn this publish to get the context.)

We’ve been going backwards and forwards with our architect, Ruth Ellen Outlaw of Outlaw Design, for months. We FINALLY have selected a format for our first flooring.

We thought we had one after which after we plugged these plans right into a 3D program we virtually began from scratch.

The primary model of our plans additionally had a storage shed on the entrance of the home (the entrance left nook of the storage) however that has now been vetoed in favor of an even bigger pantry and a real mudroom nook.

Many of the issues we retailer within the storage could be unfold out within the different storage areas of our home, together with a small gardening and power shed within the yard.

The one puzzle piece I haven’t found out but is the place to throw all of the cardboard bins that come within the mail!

Right here’s the newest format for the primary flooring:

Right here’s the issue we’re attempting to resolve:

On a regular basis “mudroom” chaos!

3D of the brand new kitchen

Imagine me, I can’t be utilizing these barstools, haha. And naturally this can be a primary program so the kitchen won’t be grey with brown counters. Search for spacial design solely!