Five Minutes Peace | Parents discuss overstimulation with babies & toddlers

Five Minutes Peace | Parents discuss overstimulation with babies & toddlers

November 13, 2025 · 56 min · Season 5 · Episode 7

About this episode

Emma and Elliot discuss the challenges of overstimulation in parenting young children and the need for personal space.

Coping with clingy babies, sensory overload, chatty toddlers, and needing a break... This is the one where Emma and Elliot chat about the overstimulation of noise, touch, and emotion when you have two children under 5. How to find a few minutes of peace from incessant crying, from kids being all over you, from toddlers only wanting mum for everything... the guilt of needing some space from the ones you love. Including conversation about gentle parenting, mum guilt, bodies, being the favourite...

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