You're listening to the decluttered mom podcast. A podcast built specifically for busy moms by a busy mom. I'm your host, Diana Renee. And in 2017, I had my second daughter and it felt like I was literally drowning in my home. Okay, not literally,

but I felt like I couldn't breathe with all of the stuff surrounding me. Over the next 10 months,

I got rid of approximately 70% of our household belongings and I have never looked back.

I kind of feel like I hacked the mom system, and I'm here to share all the tips,

tricks, and encouragement.

Let's listen to today's show.

Hey, welcome to this week's episode of the Decluttered Mom podcast. I'm just giving you a heads up right now.

My allergies are so bad, you guys. So if you hear me sniffling, I'm sorry. But that is life, right?

We've been, the kids have been back in school for a couple weeks now and I'm like knock on wood

no illness yet and I know we're due for something just because like just everything's out

there so hopefully it's just allergies but here we are I wanted to talk today about kids chores

or maybe you don't call them chores.

You can call them tasks or household responsibilities or whatever you want to call them.

I go back and forth on what to call them, but basically for today's episode, we're going to call them

chores just because that is like a term that most people understand and they know what we're

talking about. And so we're going to

stick with that. A lot of times I get DMs on Instagram with people saying, like, I really want to

like delegate more to my kids. I want to teach them how to help with the house. I want them to learn

and grow up to be like responsible and know how to run a

household and how to manage a house and in all of those things. And people get really frustrated

though because they either pick things and tasks that are like just too hard either physically

or mentally for the kids that or that for the

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