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Well, hello there and welcome back, my friends.

My name is Stephanie Safarian.

And you're listening to episode 255 of Sustainable Minimalists,

a twice weekly show about intentional and eco-minimalist living.

On today's show we are continuing our foray into the best things of life being free,

with a discussion about story time and storytelling,

reading to our kids, telling stories to our kids,

in their pajamas at bedtime.

If that's not one of the greatest aspects of parenting, I don't know what is.

Today we're talking about how we can expand upon that half hour, that 20 minutes, so that our children and us so that we can all get the most out of that time right before bed.

We're going to talk best practices.

We're going to talk about tweaking story time, perhaps even not using a book.

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