Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

by Joshua Becker

minimalism calls out to us with a

smaller, quieter, calmer voice. It invites us to slow down, consume less, but enjoy more. And when we meet someone living a simplified life, we often recognize we have been chasing the wrong things all along.

minimalism creates the space to address the deepest heart issues that impact our relationships and life. I hope you will be open to it.

Finding contentment with our lot in life eliminates the need to be dishonest for financial or social gain.

But our role as parents is not to eliminate the opportunity for envy. Our role is to parent our kids

intentionally and train them to think mindfully about envy and learn to overcome it.

I learned an important parenting lesson that day: You cannot outpace envy. The game of comparison and envy and jealousy is a game that can never be won. Among those who choose to play, there are no winners—only losers. No one can have it all and no one can ever buy enough things to eliminate envy. There will always be something to be jealous about.