It's really nice when the practicality of your life can also meet the aesthetic part and make it work.

So you don't have just things sitting in your kitchen on your shelves or in other areas of your home that are just to look at and never get used.

Hi, this is Deney. 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 first

hand 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, thanks so much for tuning in. This episode is a little later than planned.

We are in Florida for a couple of months while our house is being renovated and we were hit by Hurricane

Helene last week.

Some of the kids were out of school for a couple of days.

Fortunately, very, very little damage where we are,

but I am thinking of and praying for all of those

who are not so fortunate. In today's episode I am

chatting with my friend Zoe Kim. Zoe's been on the podcast before Zoe is the

founder of Raising Simple and she's also the founder of Raising Simple.

And she's also the author of the minimalist family.

Zoe is a long time minimalist,

and I haven't talked with her recently

about what it's like raising minimalist kids as they

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