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Minimalist Moms Podcast | Simple Living for Overwhelmed Moms

Why Childhood Shouldn’t Be Rushed | Lyndsey Mimnagh (EP399)

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

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

What if we stopped rushing childhood—and instead focused on raising whole, curious, and connected human beings? In today's episode, I'm joined by Lindsay Mimnagh, founder of Treehouse Schoolhouse. Drawing on her background in education, Lyndsey shares how she learned to see children as complete individuals, body, soul, spirit, and mind, and why this holistic view changes everything in parenting and education. Whether you homeschool, send your kids to school, or just want to nurture curiosity and connection in your home, this conversation is a reminder that the most meaningful education begins with relationship, wonder, and presence.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

🌱 Why slowing childhood fosters deeper learning and stronger relationships

📚 How to create a story-centered, wonder-filled learning environment

🏡 The shift from recreating school at home to embracing home as the center of learning

🎨 The role of unstructured creative play in building independence and imagination

🌳 Practical ways to weave life skills, outdoor time, and connection into daily rhythms

💡 Balancing independent play with intentional instruction—and why early academics can wait

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About Lyndsey|

Lyndsey is a homeschool mom of four and the founder of Treehouse Schoolhouse. Before motherhood, Lyndsey had a career in children's ministry and special needs education. Her home education centers around living books and ideas, hands-on learning, nature exploration, and biblical discipleship. She shares experiences and home education inspiration through her Instagram and blog, as well as creates curriculum and resources for families around the world. Her most popular curriculum titles are An Expectant Easter, A Connected Christmas, and Treehouse Nature Study.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

There's a lot of pressure in America to, like, read by kindergarten and all these standards that have changed drastically over the last 50, you know, years.

0:06.7

So that's what I'm trying to maintain in my home is, like, giving kids their childhood and just letting them have space. And I think there's two camps. There's the ones who are just kind of going with the flow of culture, and they're giving their kids a tablet by the time they're three. and they're expecting to learn all these things, maybe through apps, or I don't even know.

0:04.1

But then there's the kickback where a lot of other people are like, you know, I don't want that for my kids. So what's the opposite? I'm going to get my kid in nature. I'm going to affect and preserve their childhood of wonder. I'm tired of all the electronics. I'm tired of all of this. I'm ready for, let's reclaim childhood. And I think that's

0:38.1

part of my message is like, within a space to just be kids. It's not going to last long. So

0:43.1

and to preserve that. Hello and welcome to the minimalist moms podcast. What if we stopped

0:49.1

rushing childhood and instead focused on raising whole, curious, and deeply connected human beings.

0:55.9

In today's episode, I'm joined by Lindsay Memnaw, founder of Treehouse Schoolhouse. Drawing on

1:01.3

her background in education, Lindsay shares how she learned to see children as complete

1:05.9

individuals, body, soul, spirit, and mind and why this holistic view changes everything in parenting

1:11.7

and education. In this episode, you'll learn why slowing childhood fosters deep learning and stronger

1:16.9

relationships, practical ways to weave life skills, outdoor time, and connection into daily rhythms,

1:22.6

balancing independent play with intentional instruction, and why early academics can wait and so much more.

1:29.2

Whether you homeschool, send your kids to school, or just want to nurture curiosity and

1:33.0

connection in your home, this conversation is a reminder that the most meaningful education

1:37.3

begins with relationship, wonder, and presence. But before we get there, I quickly want to

1:42.1

share a minimalist resource with all of you.

1:44.6

For those of you that may follow along with the minimalist moms podcast on social media,

1:48.6

you may have seen the story about how my planner was stolen.

1:52.1

There's a little bit more to the story, which I'll be sure to share on a future episode,

1:56.0

maybe next week or the following.

1:58.1

But I will say, in my search for new planners, I have found so many. You guys really delivered when I asked what your favorites were on social media. I haven't selected one yet, but the one that I did have that was stolen that I loved was from Horatio printing. I'm going to be sure to link it in the show notes. But I really love the planners where you can see the month at a glance, and then each day of the week has 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. And then there's tons of pages of notes and planning pages, assessing your goals and dreams pages. I don't know. Maybe that's just me that really likes those in my planner. I know it's not the most simple designs. But really love this planner. I'm going to be sure to link it in the show notes.

2:38.1

Some others that you guys had mentioned to me were the moleskin planners, the day designer,

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