From Chaos to Connection: Simplifying Parenting and Reducing Overwhelm with Devon Kutnzman
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Episode Description
Episode Highlights With Devon
- The challenges of modern parenting and how to navigate them
- Ways to simplify our routines, environments, etc.
- How to cultivate a calm environment in the home that helps support parenting
- Creating a “yes space” for younger kids where they can play without any safety concerns
- How can we encourage movement in children rather than restrict it? And how this helps regulate their nervous system.
- Ways to meet our child’s needs within our boundaries to keep the peace at home
- How to cultivate independence at various ages
- What to do about screen time and what research says about how it impacts kids
- How our screen use impacts children as well and how to create healthy habits
- Why modeling is more impactful than telling every single time
- Choices within boundaries and how this can help reduce tension
- How to navigate the activity overwhelm and keep kid activities from taking over the schedule
- Family activities and modeling over too much structure at a young age
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