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 back to another episode of the Maximized Minimalist. I'm your host, Katie Wells,

and on the show today is Kaylee. Yes, I have made her just have one name now.

She's like a celebrity to me. She's also one of my best friends. And if you've listed my

podcast at all over the last, you know, just over a year, you probably know Kaylee Kukla from Play

With Purpose. Kaylee is amazing. She is a childhood development expert,

and we are diving into on the show today, play, playing with our kids. She's going to be

defining play. And the reason I'm having her on the show today to discuss this topic is because

I just realized after being a mom for six years that I am nowhere close to being alone

in the fact that I do not find playing with my kiddos, it does not come naturally to me.

Sometimes it's an actual struggle, and I always just chalked it up to, you know, that's just

the way I am or, you know, all these other moms just are so great at playing and, like, being silly. And I did a poll on my Insta stories and 85% of you said, me too, I struggle with playing with my kids. So that's when I recognized, this is a thing. We need to talk about this. Let's simplify playtime. Let's just talk about it. And who else would I reach out to you than my dear friend, Kaylee?

So I hope you all enjoy today's episode.

Let's dive in.

So we have a really exciting topic today.

Play.

Play with purpose, aka that's you.

And I just want to kick it off by asking you, like, let's define play, first of all. Okay, so what is really

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