You're listening to the Girl Next Door Podcast. I'm Kelsey.

And I'm Erica. We're two former next door neighbors and good friends who love a good chat and a good laugh.

We're inviting you to come on in, have a drink, and stay a while. Hey, friend.

Hey friend. Before we get to chatting, we want to let everyone know that for our summer book club episode, we will be reading The Giver of Stars by Jo Jo Moise.

Here is a short description of the book to get you excited.

Based on a program that was instituted by Eleanor Roosevelt in the mid-1930s, The Giver of Stars, is about a group of women that begin a traveling library that delivers

books to the rural areas around their Kentucky town on horseback. These so-called packhorse

librarians must overcome a number of obstacles on their way to bringing literacy to the masses,

but they do so and tackle these challenges together. It's a tale of love, friendship, and of course, books.

That episode will air July 29th, and we would both highly recommend listening to the book,

which we both did. The reader is fantastic. All right, on to today's topic, which is something

that all parents or any caregiver can relate to, The gimmies and whining. Are we all imagining

that whining tone from our kids right now and the pestering for a toy or a treat that we've

already said no to a million times? I can just like feel my blood pressure rising.

Just thinking about it. My neck is hot. So between us, we have kids ranging from five to eight. And I think

these behaviors can be particularly strong among this age crowd. It's a favorite. Yeah, so I think

it's going to be a good one to talk about. So let's get into these unpleasant behaviors.

We'll talk about how these behaviors present themselves in our houses, how we deal with them in the

moment,

plus bigger picture strategies to prevent or minimize.

Okay, so tell me about how the gimmies and whining just manifests in your house.

What are the things your kids get the gimmies and whiny tone of voice over,

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