Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids

by Kim John Payne

To have moments of calm—creative or restful—is a form of deep sustenance for human beings of all ages. Relationships are often built in these pauses, in the incidental moments, when nothing much is going on.

simplification is often about “doing” less, and trusting more. Trusting that—if they have the time and security—children will explore their worlds in the way, and at the pace, that works best for them.

Stress that is damaging is either too large, or too constant to move beyond.

Too much stuff deprives kids of leisure, and the ability to explore their worlds deeply.

“The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.”