A card from Fair Play by Eve Rodsky
Weekend Plans
Socializing as a family can check off several boxes, including getting your kids out of the house and off screens, seeing your friends, and your kids seeing their friends. (Lucky for you if you like the parents of your kids’ BFFs.) But all this box checking requires much CPE, so think it through before you offer to organize a picnic in the park for your BFFs and the twenty kids among them.
Holding this card means owning all three
Conception
You have weekends with your family
Planning
- Reviewing weekend schedule (working with “Calendar Keeper” cardholder to see what periods of time are open for plans)
- Checking weather forecast
- Asking family members for ideas
- Coordinating with friends and family
Execution
- Communicating the plan to your family
- Executing the plan for the weekend
Suggested Minimum Standard of Care
No, twelve hours of screen time is not reasonable, and neither is being so overscheduled you want to scream. Like Goldilocks, do you have plans once the weekend comes that feel just right?
A starting point. You and your partner agree the real standard together, and the holder meets it without reminders.
Holding it well
- The holder owns all of it: noticing, planning and doing. No “just tell me what to do.”
- Agree the Minimum Standard of Care together, then let the holder meet it their way.
- Not working? Bring it to the weekly check-in and re-deal it. Don’t take it back mid-week.
Put this card on your table
Deal it, agree its standard, and see who holds what. Free.