Q&A | Are you in a state of news overwhelm?

Simple Families

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Kids & Family, Parenting, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Are you inundated by the news right now? Is there such a thing as too much news? We are raising children in an era of constant exposure to the news–it hits us instantly 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. With the current pandemic, it has many of us captivated as we find it hard to look away. Constant exposure to the news can increase anxiety. Is there a way to find a balance between being informed and being inundated? That’s what we are chatting about in today’s episode. The post Q&A | Are you in a state of news overwhelm? appeared first on Simple Families.

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0:00.0	Hi there and welcome to episode 204. Today I'm answering a question about news
0:05.9	overwhelm. Is there a such thing as consuming too much news?
0:11.1	Hi this is Deney.
0:14.0	I'm the founder of Simple Families.
0:16.0	Simple Families is an online community
0:18.0	for parents who are seeking a simpler,
0:20.0	more intentional life.
0:22.0	In this show, we focus on minimalism with kids,
0:24.4	positive parenting, family wellness, and decreasing the mental load. My
0:30.9	perspectives are based in my firsthand experience raising kids but also rooted in my PhD in child development.
0:37.0	So you're going to hear conversations that are based in research, but more importantly, real life. Thanks for joining us.
0:48.3	Hi and thank you for tuning in this is episode 204 and today I'm answering a question about news
0:54.7	overwhelm is it possible that you're consuming too much news now each week in these
1:00.2	Q&A episodes on Tuesdays I start the episode off by sharing something
1:04.7	simple that I've been loving and then I move into a question from an audience
1:10.0	member. This week something simple that I'm sharing is my kids bullet journal. This is something
1:16.3	that I've been doing informally with my kids for a really long time. I'm not sure why I've never shared it before.
1:21.7	So my kids really want to know what's coming
1:25.1	down the pipe each day and this is especially true when we have a lot of days of
1:29.6	unscheduled time. So we really started doing this consistently last summer when my kids
1:36.0	were around for summer break and we would wake up in the morning and especially my
1:40.0	son who was five at that time would say, all right, what are we doing now?
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