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Enough! 3 Things Our Kids Really Need

Enough! 3 Things Our Kids Really Need

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: recentering our parenting efforts around 3 of the most important childhood needs.

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[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

 

 

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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 this episode of the Sustainable Minimalists podcast: How to recenter your parenting efforts around 3 of the most important childhood needs.

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Cultural messaging and suggests you should be happy all the time. But your "happy chemicals"—dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin—evolved to motivate survival behavior, not make you happy.

In fact, unhappiness is your brain's default state.

On today's show Dr. Loretta Breuning argues that you can manage your happy chemicals when you know how they work in the state of nature, and she's here to show us how.

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[9:00] Serotonin is about social dominance. Enter comparison and competition

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[15:30] Endorphin is the brain's natural opioid. But you can habituate to it!

[18:00] Just got something you want? That flood of happiness is dopamine's doing, but dopamine runs out

[25:00] We are living in an era of immense abundance. So why aren't we happy?

 

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