What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist

podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to

rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take

back your motherhood

and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show.

Hey there, welcome to another episode of the maximized minimalist. I'm your host, Katie Wells,

and I have a question for you. What if there was one thing that you could do

right now to decrease your stress and simultaneously improve your relationship with your kiddos?

So being at home with our families 24-7 for the last few weeks, and maybe depending on where you live,

you've been doing this

longer, this social distancing longer, has just brought up so many new challenges, especially

in the parent-child dynamic. And if any of these sound like you, trust me, you're not alone.

I'm raising my hand over here in North Carolina. So number one, your patience is at an all-time low and you find yourself

snapping or maybe yelling at the kids and just feeling like crap afterward. Number two,

you're struggling hard with toddler tantrums, sibling rivalry, or maybe the kids are talking back

and you're just at a loss for what to do. Number three, you're constantly

feeling triggered, on edge, frustrated, resentful, or angry. And number four, maybe the need to be

momming 24-7 and getting zero breaks is just making you feel like you're going to crack. So my friend

Kaylee Kukla and I want to help. We put our heads together.

And Kaylee is a childhood development expert. And we recently did a Facebook live. So that's what

you're going to be hearing today is the audio pulled from that Facebook live. And she's going to be

diving into the root of all of these challenges that I just mentioned. But more importantly, how we can fix them using a little-known, little-discussed topic called

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