Episodes 374
Avg. Duration 28m
Activity Dormant
Apple Rating 4.8 (1,049)
Since Feb 2017
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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About This Podcast

Simple Families offers solutions for living well with children. In this show, we focus on child behavior, positive parenting, family wellness, and decreasing the mental load. As a Mama with a doctorate in Child Development, Denaye’s perspectives are grounded in research, but more importantly real life.

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Recent Episodes

All is Calm(ish) ft. Niro Feliciano

Dec 01, 2025 45m

And we're back! After a six-month hiatus, the podcast is back. Today I'm welcoming back, Niro Feliciano. Niro and I discuss finding peace and calm during the holiday season--managing the stress…

Unfit Parent ft. Jessica Slice

Apr 25, 2025 43m

In today's episode, I'm speaking with Jessica Slice. Jessica is a disabled author, speaker, and essayist. In her 20s, Jessica fell ill on a hike in Greece and has since been slowing learning to…

Moral Development

Mar 28, 2025 22m

In this episode, I'm chatting with you about moral development. The study of moral development helps us to understand how humans learn right from wrong, make decisions, and internalize a value set.…

First Love ft. Lisa Phillips

Feb 28, 2025 43m

Love is love. But in today's world our growing children are experiencing rapidly shifting messages about identity and commitment. Sometimes our own life experiences around first love can help us to…

Delegating ft. Emily King

Jan 24, 2025 57m

I don't know about you, but I find it difficult to delegate tasks in both my work and family life. Often, I find myself deciding that it's easier to do things myself rather than enlist the help of…

Inspire ft. Adam Galinsky Ph.D.

Dec 13, 2024 51m

Leadership is built into parenthood. In today's episode I welcome Adam Galinsky, a renowned social psychologist and Columbia Business School professor. Adam is the author of the brand new book,…

Raising Securely Attached Kids ft. Eli Hardwood MA, LPC

Nov 22, 2024 58m

In today's episode, author Eli Harwood joins us to explain what it means to be securely attached and why it matters. Eli is a mother and therapist known widely on the internet as the Attachment Nerd.…

Simplifying Routines

Oct 25, 2024 25m

Many of us (myself included) strive to develop more effective and efficient routines. Sometimes, we fail to realize that we have more functional systems in place than we realize. Personally, I've set…

Minimalism with Older Kids ft. Zoe Kim

Oct 04, 2024 47m

I'm excited to welcome my minimalist friend Zoe Kim back to the podcast to chat about what minimalism looks like with older kids. Zoe, an author and mother of four, is sharing some of her favorite…

Raising Resilience ft. Tovah Klein Ph.D.

Aug 30, 2024 56m

"Resilience is being able to handle the bad stuff over time and to know you are not doing it alone." - Tovah Klein Ph.D., author of Raising ResilienceIn today's world of uncertainty, resilience is…

Language + Co-Regulation

Jul 30, 2024 11m

In this episode, I'm discussing two valuable principles in parenting: co-regulation and declarative language. I recently read two short books by the same author (Linda K. Murphy) with tools that have…

Denaye's Minimalism Ramblings

Jun 30, 2024 24m

We are currently packing the whole house into boxes to move out for renovations. Therefore, I've been reflecting a lot on our journey towards minimalism. In today's episode, I'm talking about…

Denaye's Screen Ramblings

May 31, 2024 37m

Safe and healthy screen use is a topic on my mind...all.the.time. In today's episode, I'm sharing some rambling thoughts about how I'm making decisions for my kids (ages 8 and 10) around things like…

The Breakthrough Years ft. Ellen Galinsky

Apr 25, 2024 37m

There are widely held assumptions about the adolescent years--many of which are negative. My guest today, Ellen Galinsky, challenges many of the stereotypes that we've come to believe about teens. In…

Over the Influence ft. Kara Alaimo

Mar 28, 2024 42m

Most of us have a conflicted relationship with social media and online life. For today's episode I'm chatting with author Kara Alaimo. Kara's new book, Over the Influence: Why Social Media is Toxic…

Perfectionism ft. Clarissa Ong Ph.D.

Feb 23, 2024 45m

The chances are good that you are familiar with perfectionism. Either you have experienced it yourself, you have a partner or parent with these tendencies, or perhaps you have a child touched by…

Gifted and Distractible ft. Julie Skolnick

Jan 19, 2024 41m

There are many misconceptions about what it means to be 'gifted'. Today's guest, Julie Skolnick, explains to us that giftedness usually comes with considerable challenges. She also shares ideas and…

Interracial Friendship

Dec 15, 2023 41m

Many of the guests on this show are authors—especially of non-fiction books. Although we often rely on non-fiction to teach us, sometimes the greatest lessons actually come through diving deeper into…

Building Community ft. Michelle Kennedy

Nov 17, 2023 38m

Once upon a time, building a village to raise a family probably felt simpler. The village was likely the (literal) neighbors and family members who lived right around the corner. But in today's…

The Comfort Crisis ft. Michael Easter

Oct 20, 2023 42m

In today's episode, author Michael Easter, shares his work and theories on the topic of comfort. He posits that the growing rates of mental and physical health challenges may be rooted in the fact…

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