What Our Kids Really Need

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Leisure, Parenting, Kids & Family, Home & Garden

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Enough with excessive educational toys, extracurriculars, and enrichment activities. It’s time to take a step back, put our wallets away, and realize what our children *actually* need. On today's show: re-centering our parenting efforts around 3 of the most important childhood needs. Here's a preview: [10:00] Kids need your undivided attention! Make sure you're giving twice as much positive attention as negative attention [13:00] What recent research says about the benefits of delighting in our children [16:30] 3 benefits to signing up for one less extracurricular [28:00] Not all foods are created equal! Kids really do need these 8 micronutrients Resources mentioned: Episode #403: The Processed Food Problem Episode #173: How To Simplify Picky Eating This show is listener-supported. Thank you for supporting! Join our (free!) Facebook community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube @sustainableminimalists Say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com.

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0:00.0	It has been a summer of self-care over here. I'm talking lots of hikes, lots of beach trips with the
0:06.4	sunscreen of course, you name it, I'm fitting it in before Labor Day. Wherever you're off to this summer, know that you're taking your microbiome with you. And seeds
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0:27.0	know that I pay close attention to what I put in my body I do my d darndest, to avoid synthetic ingredients, and that's why I trust seed.
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1:03.0	Well, hello and welcome back.
1:05.0	My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to episode 438 of sustainable
1:09.8	minimalist.
1:10.8	This is a show about intentional and eco-friendly minimalist living.
1:14.8	And before we get to what we're talking about today, just a quick holy moly congratulations
1:19.7	hooray party.
1:21.2	I noticed this morning that this podcast, thanks to all of you, has been downloaded
1:27.0	over 5 million times. Yes, that's right, five million downloads.
1:33.0	Holy moly, here's to five million more.
1:36.0	On today's show, we're discussing three things that our children truly need.
1:42.0	Now, I want to paint a picture for all of you in the community and the location in which I live and I know this is not representative of every community in America in the world.
1:54.4	However, in the community in which I hail from, days look something like this.
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