Grow Your Village

Sound Familiar?

With a lack of nearby extended family or a village structure, many families struggle to find time for household tasks. Research shows this leads to stress, anxiety, marital strife, and less intimacy between partners. Research also shows that even with an amazing partnership where we share much of the execution of household tasks, the planning of household tasks falls disproportionately to women. Experts refer to this as adding to a person’s mental load. But if sharing the execution of tasks isn't enough, who can you find to conceive of and plan functions like:

• Planning and prepping dinner meals and school lunches for the week? 
• Noticing when the refrigerator has that special smell and needs a top-to-bottom cleaning?
• Recognizing when the pantry shelves are bursting at the seams and need a total reorganization?
• Planning the next birthday party, creating and sending the invitations, and buying decorations and food?
• Noticing the clutter and tidying before things pile up or the housekeeper arrives?

These people have been there, done that, and CRUSHED it! Now their families have grown up a little, or a lot, and they’ve found some extra time in the day to become part of your Village! Grow Your Village connects local women with years of experience as household managers to families looking to remove some of the mental load by knowing someone from your village will get it done from conception to planning to execution. And for the men in the same boat, we would never exclude you. Just because the research says women usually bear this burden, we know there are amazing guys out there who need to Grow Your Village, too. Let's get started!