Devon Kuntzman on Parenting Through Toddler Chaos Without Losing Your Mind
The Mom Room
Renee Reina & Podcast Nation
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Ep545. Renee chats with toddler expert and Transforming Toddlerhood author Devon Kuntzman about surviving the chaotic toddler years without losing your mind. Devon explains why tantrums, hitting, and “defiance” aren’t bad behavior—they’re communication—and shares simple mindset shifts and scripts that stop power struggles before they spiral. They talk parent guilt, public meltdowns, and why discipline is truly about teaching skills, not punishing mistakes.
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| 0:53.2 | Devin, welcome to the mom room. |
| 0:55.9 | Thank you. I'm so excited to be here today. |
| 0:58.3 | This is going to be a fun topic. And by fun, I mean fun for me to talk about because I am very open about how the toddler years for me were the most difficult. |
| 1:12.4 | It also coincided with quarantine and COVID. |
| 1:16.7 | So that kind of added an extra layer to it, I'm sure. |
| 1:21.1 | But first and foremost, what inspired you to base your entire platform transforming toddlerhood on the toddler years specifically. |
| 1:31.7 | Yeah. Well, you know, I really have always had an interest in child development and that's what |
| 1:37.7 | I studied when I was in university. But beyond that, I became a nanny for a lot of high profile |
| 1:42.9 | families that had toddlers or had |
| 1:45.2 | toddler and they were also introducing a new sibling. |
| 1:48.8 | And so I worked with so many families and two things happened. |
| 1:53.1 | First, I noticed a lot of miscommunications between parents and toddlers where toddlers were just |
| 1:59.4 | at the end of the day having tantrums so upset when |
| 2:02.9 | their parents came home and then parents feeling so frustrated like oh my gosh i've been gone all day |
| 2:07.7 | so excited to see my kid and this is what i come home to and everyone feeling frustrated and |
| 2:13.0 | on top of that i had my own experience of like oh my my goodness. Like, I'm doing everything here and I still |
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