Reclaiming Wonder: Simple Ways to Inspire Kids Every Day | Amanda Joy Dykes (EP383)

Minimalist Moms Podcast | Simple Living for Overwhelmed Moms

Diane Boden

Self-improvement, Home & Garden, Leisure, How To, Kids & Family, Mental Health, Education, Parenting, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 952 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In a fast-paced, screen-filled world, how can we help kids slow down and truly see the wonder around them? In this episode, award-winning author and mom of four Amanda Dykes shares how her new book, A Pocketful of Wonder, invites families to reconnect with nature, creativity, and curiosity. With 50 simple, hands-on activities—from poetry walks to backyard art projects—Amanda offers practical ways to spark kids’ imaginations and deepen their connection to the world around them. This is a conversation about nurturing attention, awe, and joy—one small adventure at a time.

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Amanda Dykes's debut novel, Whose Waves These Are, is the winner of the prestigious 2020 Christy Award Book of the Year, a Booklist 2019 Top Ten Romance debut, and the winner of an INSPY Award. She's also the author of Christy Award-finalists All the Lost Places, Yours Is the Night, and Set the Stars Alight—the book that first awoke her spirit to God’s gift of wonder as a means of fighting darkness and mining for hope. A former English teacher, Amanda is a drinker of tea, dweller of redemption, and spinner of hope-filled tales who spends most days chasing wonder and words with her family. Find her online at AmandaDykes.com

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1:09.5	that one question, what can we be amazed by?? And suddenly, that one question, what can we be amazed by,
1:13.0	makes it really exciting. And it fuses that with hope, this battle against screen addiction and
1:18.8	everything that comes with it. You listen to their laughter, you know, that's their native language.
1:22.9	It comes back always to that term or that phrase, see the story. And if we can learn to see the story
1:29.1	in the people around us, in the world around us, it really awakens this whole new experience of living.
1:36.1	It's so easy to miss what's right in front of us. I do it all the time. I'm guilty of that. And when we
1:41.5	walk through a day or even at half an hour or an hour, really awake to
1:45.9	what's going on, we see there's such purpose. We have the opportunity to live this really,
1:52.2	really rich life with them right in the moment, right where we are, even if it's just kneeling down
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