Hi and welcome to episode 197 the question I'm answering today is how do you keep a little kid occupied?

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 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. Hello and thank you so much for tuning in.

I am happy to have you here.

If you're new to simple families in these Tuesday episodes, we do a shorter Q&A format.

I start each episode with something simple that I'm loving, which is never sponsored

just something I really love, and then I move into the Q&A segment. But before we get started I did want to mention that the

mental unload, which is the program I run three times a year to help combat mental clutter

in parenthood, well it starts next Thursday. If your

brain feels busy and parenthood feels heavy, I'd love to have you join us.

Over the course of seven days I introduce you to a four-step process to reduce

overwhelm and for the following three weeks you'll have access to me and to our

mental unload community to help support you through the

process. I want to read a quick testimonial from a recent participant Lena. She

wrote, if I would have known that taking an hour or two to myself to get on this path to less overwhelm

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