148. How to Make Summer Less Stressful
148. How to Make Summer Less Stressful  
Podcast: Leadership Parenting- Resilient Moms Raise Resilient Kids
Published On: Wed May 27 2026
Description: Send us Fan MailIt's the end of May and I've been sitting with moms all month who are half excited about summer and half quietly dreading it — and I noticed the same handful of questions coming up again and again. So in this episode I take the most common summer struggles I hear from real moms and work through them together, because there is something genuinely helpful about knowing that what you're carrying isn't a personal failure — it's a shared experience. We look at why summer actually feels harder than the school year from a nervous system standpoint, how to build a loose rhythm that keeps the overwhelm from taking over, why needing space from your kids is not a sign of insufficient love, and why filling every gap of your children's days is doing them less good than you think. This is a practical, honest conversation about surviving and steadying yourself through the season  ** Free Download**  The Answer Guide to the Top 10 Questions of How to Survive the Summer   Get it in the show notes at LeighGermann.com Epsiode 148If you'd like to get the show notes for this episode, head to: https://leighgermann.com