Simply Summer
Create more (simple) meaningful minutes this summer
Do you dream of device free Summers?
Are you tired of hearing, "I'm bored!" from your kids?
Do the Summers slide by, lacking the special memories you want with your kids?
Have your plans for the Summer months gone unfulfilled and empty, needing structure or routine?
One part schedule, one part planning and one part fun will provide you the balance of productivity and ease with your kids this year. The Simply Summer Workshop will help you add a rhythm which everyone in the family will benefit from. We will show you how to create the Super Summer Challenge which will work best for your schedule, priorities and interests.
What is a Super Summer Challenge?
As your children participate in the Super Summer Challenge they will:
- get rewarded for continuing or learning new skills
- be motivated in areas of self-discipline
- discover how to look outside themselves
- mature in sibling unity
- form invaluable lifelong habits
The Super Summer Challenge is a chart of activities and goals you create for your children to work on all summer or whatever time frame you need. When they complete their projects or reach their goals, you get to celebrate! The challenge only takes a few hours to prepare and can give your family three months of fun, learning and growing.
What is the idea behind Creating a Simply Summer?
Amy Wicks first tried creating a Super Summer Challenge over nine years ago. It was then she fell in love with the concept and experienced a great result with her girls at ages 2 and 3. Each year she has tried different methods of planning and preparing in order to make it as simple and fun as possible. Some techniques have stuck and she's loved sharing them with all her friends and family. She knew it was a great thing to share her mother-in-laws book and idea of a Super Summer Challenge, but even better was to find a way thousands could experience her help with planning a Simply Summer.
When Amy heard the idea of writing an online workshop, she knew this was the way she could help so many families like yours.
Amy Wicks and Linda Wicks have combined over 30 years of experience to
bring you all the helpful tips, tricks and tools to create a Simply
Summer.
This course is not for you if you already love how your summers go, your kids never complain of being bored and you get all your projects done. First, please tell us your secret and second pass your ideas along to the rest of the world!
If you could use some help with these things, we know you will find the information you learn in this course to serve you well year after year.
How it all began...
Linda Wicks and Becky Bilbro read Sanity in the Summertime, by Linda Dillow and Claudia Arp over 30 years ago. They took a few ideas from that book and began their family tradition of a Super Summer Challenge every year. Soon others began to catch onto the idea and began asking how they could create this with their family!
Linda Wicks has spoken to hundreds of other women and taught them how to create a Super Summer Challenge for their families. Linda spent several years crafting a book, so this message could be shared all over the country. Over the years, many women continue to invite their good friends to share in these intentional ideas for their children.
"I'm so glad someone told me about the super summer challenge. It makes the summer days off of school much more interesting for me and my kids. They have things to work at and challenge them, and I get to see them try. Also I don't feel pressure to find things to keep them busy, I can just direct them to the chart on the wall if they tell me they're bored."
- Noelle W.- mom of three in Columbia, MO
"Super Summer Challenge has become a tradition that helps me set aside
time to think about each child and what challenges I can use to help
them grow physically, mentally, or spiritually. I love it when they
are scattered about the house or outdoors enthusiastically working on
some aspect of their challenge. It is especially heart warming for me
when they are working together to earn points."
-The Griffiths Family, Kansas City, MO
We are two weeks into our Super Summer Challenge and I am astounded at how different our days have looked. My kids are eager to earn points and I am happily watching as they establish new habits, pursue new ways of serving around our home and flex their creative muscles when it comes to their play time. The Simply Summer course gave me the exact tools I needed to come up with a plan and then implement it and I couldn't be more pleased with how our summer days are turning out!
-EJ Capps, Kansas City, MO
This is your year!
It's your year to create lasting, lifelong memories and habits with your kids. After teaching many to plan their own Super Summer Challenge, I've made the planning process for painless and doable.
You'll have so much support and variety to help you form the limitless options which work best for you.
I'm so grateful for all the ways the SSC tradition has not only made my life easier, but I treasure all the moments I've enjoyed with my kids.
I can't wait to hear about all of yours!
Amy Wicks
Founder of Simply Wholehearted
Your Instructor
Amy (an Enneagram 7w8) is married to arborist and tree climber Spencer, and together they are raising their 3 kids who are often found swinging in tree limbs as well. They are fierce about protecting the simplicity of their summers, meaningful minutes with their kids and early Saturday morning dates over coffee. They love serving weekly at Radiant Church KC and talking about the Enneagram with their friends.