Tracey Spicer on upskilling your kids to contribute at home
Life Admin Hacks, interview with Tracey Spicer, 7 April 2021
We interview[ed] Tracey Spicer, longtime broadcaster and recent NSW Premier’s Woman of the Year, on how she and her partner organise and share their home life and careers.
Photo: Tracey Spicer
Tracey Spicer AM is a multiple Walkley Award-winning author, journalist and broadcaster who has anchored national programs and in 2018 was chosen as one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence . In 2019 she was named the NSW Premier’s Woman of the Year, accepted the Sydney Peace Prize alongside Tarana Burke for the Me Too movement, and won the national award for Excellence in Women’s Leadership through Women & Leadership Australia. Her first book, The Good Girl Stripped Bare, became a bestseller within weeks of publication, while her TEDx Talk, The Lady Stripped Bare, has attracted more than six million views worldwide.
[Listen to the interview at Life Admin Hacks.]
What we talk about
During the interview, we chat with Tracey about:
organising holiday care for children
how Tracey enlisted her seven-year-old daughter to help her with tax receipts
enlisting the children to assist with life admin, cooking and other household chores
how she is determined to teach non-traditional gender roles to her children
how her husband has taken control of house cleaning and comparison shopping in their household
how habit, necessity and seeking advice has helped her take control of her taxes
her approach to what she is happy to outsource
the importance of having a conversation with your partner to reset expectations
how her kids take responsibility for planning, shopping and cooking one meal each week
investing the effort and time to upskill your children into contributing to your household life admin
using a shared digital calendar to coordinate family logistics
simplifying life to reduce the number of decisions she needs to make.