You should know this by now. I've asked you a hundred times. How could you forget?

Today, we're going to talk about punishment and discipline and responsibility.

How do we raise kids to take ownership and care for themselves and their belongings?

I'm going to give you some things to think about and some things to do.

Hi, this is Dene. I'm the founder of Simple Families. Simple Families is an online community

for parents who are seeking a simpler, more intentional life. In this show, we focus on minimalism

with kids, positive parenting, family wellness, and decreasing the mental load. My perspectives

are based in my firsthand experience raising kids, but also rooted in my PhD in child development.

So you're going to hear conversations that are based in research, but more importantly,

real life. Thanks for joining us.

Hi there, thanks for tuning in. I'm on vacation with my family this week, so I am bringing you a

re-air of an older episode that is one of the most top downloaded of all time.

This is absolutely one that's worth listening to more than once. So if you've already heard it,

tune in again. You're going to find that it lands differently during different stages of parenting.

Thanks for being here. Thanks so much for tuning in. Today we're talking about responsibility

and consequences and discipline. A lot of big words with loaded meanings.

And just facing some of those moments where you feel like you want someone just to tell you

what to do. So I'm going to do a little bit of that. I will tell you what I would do,

but I'm also going to give you some things to think about, some things to consider. Because what's

going on behind the scenes in the difficult phases and moments with our kids, we often get caught

up in this idea of what do we do? How should we react? How can we nip this in the bud, I think,

is the expression? I have these two pots with flowers right in front of my house. And as many of

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