I use an app called ChoreMonster. The kids earn points for brushing teeth or picking up the dog poop. It's genius. Julie Bowen More Quotes by Julie Bowen More Quotes From Julie Bowen It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad. Julie Bowen chance patience war I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist. Julie Bowen website gossip magazines Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house. Julie Bowen crazy children people In my family, Mom can lead the sports activities, no problem! Except football - that, my husband does. Julie Bowen mom football sports Success is getting up one more time than you fall down. Julie Bowen falling-down more-time fall As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy. Julie Bowen being-lazy lazy joy I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them. Julie Bowen hockey sports school I take the kids skiing every year, and my husband doesn't always go. The way I grew up, that's very normal. My mom would take us skiing, but my dad hates cold weather. Julie Bowen dad husband mom I do find it odd people choose to do stuff that makes them look like crazy Hollywood faces, but I've got zero judgment. Julie Bowen zero crazy people I feel the most pulled together when I'm going for the tomboyish thing. Julie Bowen together feels I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it. Julie Bowen rail decades At restaurants, I carry paper and markers and tell everyone to draw a picture with a unicorn, an octopus and an explosion. That keeps kids still for a minute. Julie Bowen octopus paper kids I don't always run in the mornings, but I am definitely better if I run in the mornings. Julie Bowen ifs running morning I have three kids. I should know how to take care of them. Julie Bowen care three kids I just can't seem to make myself care about what I look like when I am working out. Julie Bowen work-out care looks Everyone [of my kids] can ride a bike now, so the park has had a big resurgence in our life. We also play a lot of dumb drawing games. Julie Bowen games play kids I read books more than I go out. Julie Bowen book I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again! Julie Bowen mom class years I'm built like a 14-year-old boy. I have no waist, so anything I wear has to have a lot of trickeration going on. I don't fit into girl dresses. I can't just slip it on. Julie Bowen girl boys years I read some article where Reese Witherspoon said, "If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them." It made me feel so much better. Julie Bowen enough-time yelling kids
