Hi there it's episode 159 and today we're talking about slow living the difference

between painfully slow and delightfully slow.

You are listening to the Simple Families Podcast, a Q&A-style show that brings you solutions for living

well with family.

Here's your host, Deney Barajona. Hi, Deney here, it's episode 159 and I appreciate you tuning in for the

simple families podcast. In today's episode we're going to talk about

slow living and sometimes slow living can seem completely incompatible with raising young kids.

Sometimes the days can feel painfully long and painfully slow.

Most of you know that I'm a huge fan of boredom,

and boredom is something that is very much present

when you're living slower with kids. Yet in many ways boredom can be painful for

grown-ups both for ourselves we really don't like to let ourselves get bored the moment we have a second of downtime or reaching for our phones or something to entertain us.

But we also don't like to let our kids get bored because they whine and they complain and often we can

perceive them as being unhappy and nobody wants their kids to be unhappy.

So today we're talking about slow living. Sometimes it can feel painful and sometimes it can feel delightful. And why is it that

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