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. Hello and welcome to another episode of the decluttered mom podcast. I am really excited to talk about what we're going to go over on this episode because selfishly, you guys, I kind of did this for my own benefit. Okay, not totally, but kind of a little bit. My oldest started middle school last week, and I've

stopped crying enough to be able to talk about it on this podcast. No, but I would say like a month ago,

it really hit me that this was happening and I think I was in denial. Middle school was rough for me and so at least

six and seventh grade were. And so I just, and I think I just am Uber aware of how much

my 11 year old has like grown up in the last year. And so her going to middle school really, like, freaked me out a little bit.

So about a month ago, I asked on Instagram for moms who have been there done that to basically

give their advice for each phase of school. So I had one question box that was for elementary,

one question box that was for middle school, and one question box that was for high school. And I basically asked, what would

your advice be to parents who have kids that are entering these new stages of school? And so this

was going to be really fun because, again, selfishly, I wanted to see the tips for middle school. And so this was going to be really fun because, again, selfishly, I wanted to see the

tips for middle school. But I also have so many people in my DMs who are talking about,

like, their kids going to kindergarten and all the emotions that that brings up, right? And so I wanted

to kind of do these a little bit separately.

I got the most advice for elementary. And so what we're going to do is we're going to do

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