Zoom Out: Thinking Strategically about Household Systems
The Family Lab
Stuck in the never-ending logistics of running a home? It’s time to shift to a strategy-first perspective so you can build systems that work. This episode talks about how to shift your thinking. Hence, you start with a strategy, then consider all the different tactics that could accomplish your strategy, and finally think about the logistics of getting it done. For episodes with lots of great ideas about different strategies and tactics, check out: How She Plans Meals: Workshop: How You Do Laundry
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Emotional Regulation with Emily Hamblin
The Family Lab
Tired of meltdowns? And I’m not just talking about your kids! Emily Hamblin is here to help us deal with our big emotions and teach our kids to deal with theirs. She gives practical tips about how to talk to our kids about their emotions, how to identify the skills they’re lacking, and how to teach emotional regulation and empathy. Then we both share experiments you can try at home. For more resources from Emily, check out .
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Top 5 Halloween Costumes, with the Dayton Sisters
The Family Lab
Join a coven of Halloween experts--my mother and her three sisters--for a costume parade through history as they reminisce and share photos about Halloweens past. We talk about the antics of my Grandpa, the Halloween king, and his legacy of papier mache and discuss useful skills like how to black out your teeth and create a lifelike beard with nothing but vaseline and coffee grinds. 😂
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Archibald (and McGavin) Experiments: Summer 2025
The Family Lab
My friend Ashley McGavin and I share all the experiments we tried this summer–in Ashley’s case with a brand new baby! We talk about feeding kids in the summer, keeping them entertained, summer jobs, chores, personal development, a senior trip, and how to achieve a throwback 80s and 90s summer. We both have 5 kids, but our families are in very different stages. My kids now range from 10 to 19, and her kids now range from four months to 14 years old. Join us at our weekly Open Labs! Tuesdays at 10:00 MT
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Top 5 Rollover Meals
The Family Lab
What’s for dinner tonight? How about tomorrow? This episode helps you answer both questions--with favorite rollover meals from me and my guests Andrea Clark and Hillary Hess. Rollover meals allow you to take parts of one meal and roll it into another meal, to save time, money, and the tedium of leftovers. Hillary Hess shares great recipes and resources at helpingofhappiness.com Andrea Clark offers courses and printables at apurposefulhome.com Andrea 1. Chicken and Rice/ Hawaiian Haystacks/Fried Rice 2. Tacos (Pork or chicken) to Nachos 3. Scrambled Egg and Sausage/Breakfast Burritos 4....
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Archibald Experiments: Back to School Roundup
The Family Lab
Archibald Experiments: Back to School Routine Roundup https://youtu.be/vRngguIVeas Transitioning from a lazy summer schedule to a back to school routine is no joke. So I went through past podcast episodes looking for experiments we’ve tried here in the Archibald home to make our morning, afternoon and bedtime routines run more smoothly during the school year, from waking kids up to getting them into the car, to cleaning up that car, to connecting with them during the after-school runaround. Here are links to listen to the full episodes about our past fall...
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Encore: How Dana Declutters
The Family Lab
Dana K. White is a decluttering expert for the rest of us. The ones who struggle. We discuss her decluttering process, her Cinderella story from slob to home management guru, clutter thresholds, and teaching our kids to declutter (or at least attempting to).
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Encore: How Mary Parents Spicy Ones
The Family Lab
Mary Van Geffen is spicy. Which is why she's made it her mission as a parenting coach to help parents understand their own spicy children. In this episode, Mary teaches how to manage our own reactions as we parent these amazing kids.
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Encore: How Bryce Manages Mom Guilt
The Family Lab
Bryce Reddy is a family therapist specializing in maternal mental health, and one of the most quotable people I've ever interviewed. In this eisode, she shares her insights about mom guilt, judgement, and how we can support each other.
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Encore: How Jessica Jackson Goes from Surviving to Thriving
The Family Lab
Jessica Jackson’s framework for transitioning from surviving to thriving might just transform your whole way of looking at motherhood and life (because survival mode isn’t exclusive to motherhood). Best of all, Jessica has given me words to describe the transition from survival mode to re-entry to normalizing to exploring to thriving and even soaring. Don’t worry. She’ll explain the whole thing.
info_outlineThis week, I invited my four siblings--Cassie Gadd, Brad Singley, Brett Singley, and Hayley Kirkland--into the studio to talk about our top family movies. We intended to each share 5 favorite movies from our childhood and then in our own families, but we definitely got carried away. I'm going to list our childhood movies and then our current favorite family movies by the person who recommended them. I'll omit the ones that we mentioned but do not recommend. (Sorry, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
We also talk about how we make family movie nights happen and what they look like for each of us.
Of course, check ratings and Commonsensemedia.org to decide if these movie are appropriate for your families.
Movies from Our Childhood (80s and 90s)
Musicals: Sound of Music, Singing in the Rain, Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof, Newsies, Meet Me In St Louis, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (proceed with caution), Peter Pan (with Mary Martin. Definitely niche), Alice in Wonderland (made for TV movie), Into the Woods
All ages: Three Amigos, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Nacho Libre, Princess Bride (Teen? Those ROUSes are pretty scary), Hook, Sandlot, Three Ninjas, Swiss Family Robinson, That Darn Cat, Flight of the Navigator, Sister Act
Teens: Happy Gilmore, Goonies, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, So I Married An Axe Murderer, Life Is Beautiful
Suspense: Rear Window
Top Movies for our Own Families
Whitney: Dan in Real Life, Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Hitch, Hunt for the Wilderpeople (language), The Truman Show, Castaway
Cassie: Jurassic Park, Blackbeard's Ghost, Remember the Titans, Princess Bride, Night at the Museum, National Treasure
Brad: Safety Last, School of Rock (language), Fantastic Mr. Fox, Hunt for the Wilderpeople (language), The Red Balloon, What About Bob, Raising Arizona
Brett: My Neighbor Totoro, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Surf's Up, Three Ninjas, All Lego Movies
Hayley: School of Rock (language), Princess Bride, Hook, Singing in the Rain, Music Man, Newsies, Paddington 2, Napoleon Dynamite, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Weekly Open Lab: Wednesdays at 10 am MT (through April 30 2025, then resuming in September)
Join Whitney in her virtual studio to share ideas, solve problems, craft experiments, chat about past and future episodes, discuss this quarter's book, or just drop in to say hi!
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