Hi there. It's episode 190 and today I'm answering the question how do you handle a kid who won't take no for an answer?

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 there and welcome to Simple Families. This is our weekly Q&A episode. If you're new to

the show in this episode I start by sharing something simple that I'm loving and then I respond to a question from an audience member.

So let's kick this off with something simple that I'm loving this week.

Now I want to remind you that this segment is never sponsored. It's just stuff that I'm authentically loving.

This Christmas, my husband and I gifted each other, sort of a joint gift of new pillows.

We have been pretty much despising our pillows since we got them two and a half years ago when we moved into our new house and had to get a new bed.

We went from a queen to a king size bed and with that we had to get new bigger pillows and pillows are expensive.

We ended up saving money and buying pillows that we didn't love and we've just been dealing with it ever since.

And finally my husband decided to do the research and found

our current pillows, which we got on Christmas Eve, and I have to say that I absolutely

look forward to going to bed every single night.

So if you're looking for new pillows and you want to save the research, trust me, these ones are really great.

They're made by a company called Coop Home Goods, that's C-O- maybe it's coop, now that I'm saying it out loud.

Either way, you get my point.

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