Hi there and welcome to episode 218. Today we're talking about when kids show a strong preference towards one parent or the other.

Hi, this is Denay. 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, thanks so much for tuning in.

It is Denay here and today we're talking about parental preference.

I know that we see a lot of this in our house and I've been getting an

increasing number of questions in the past several weeks about this very same

issue. I suspect that this is popping up more because many two-parent

households have both partners home for the first time perhaps ever and with

both partners home we're looking to lean on each other as much as possible. And if our kids

push back and they resist on that, it can feel exhausting. And frankly, it kind of sucks for both parties, the parent who is not preferred because, well, that just hurts.

And the parent who is preferred because that parent starts to get bogged down and overwhelmed really easily.

So today I'm going to be exploring a little bit about how these dynamics develop, what they might

mean, and how they might shift and change in the future.

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