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When children's behavior is difficult, parents need support, good information, and practical tools to reduce stress, understand their child's emotions, and build cooperation and warm connect...

What to do if you feel stuck, freeze in the moment or second guess how you use the Hand in Hand Tools. Am I doing this right? How do I know...

Understand the unseen fears that drive a child's aggression and stop it using nurturing supportive strategies. Emily and Kathy address a par...

Today, Emily and Kathy are joined by Hand in Hand's founder Patty Wipfler, who shares her insights for parents on how to support their child...

How to Tailor the Hand in Hand tools with different age kids - With Summer Sheldon This week Emily responds to a parent question: "Does birt...

Using the Hand in Hand Staylistening Tool with older kids. It's fairly easy to tell when a toddler's emotional system has taken over. Tantru...

Unplug & Play With Dr. Lawrence J. Cohen In this episode, Emily and Kathy sit down with Dr. Lawrence J Cohen, a Nappa Gold -award winning au...

Strategies That Bring Smiles & Joy With Kirsten Nottleson Sometimes it feels like our tweens and teens are living on a different planet. How...

There's an idea out there that a good parent is serene, caring, all-knowing-never-cross creature… It's such a fairytale fantasy. The reality...

"Am I good enough?" "I should do more…" "I never get it right…" This week Emily and Kathy are talking about overcoming feelings of parent gu...

Strategies for infusing fun and laughter into your daily life with kids. When we approach parenting with a sense of playfulness, it can make...

It's natural to want to react quickly as a parent. Whether your child has spilled their juice all over the carpet, or they're refusing to do...

What can you do in the moment to stop losing it? As parents, we all want what's best for our children, but sometimes, and despite our best i...

Is your parent template set to "yell" and "lose it" - and how can you de-program these go-to reactions? You might think Hand in Hand tools s...

Get fast ways to refuel! Parents are asking: Should things be as hard as this? Shouldn't I be able to keep on top of everything? Am I messin...

This connection-first approach is far more effective than threats or bribes. Most parents don't intend to threaten or bribe. But it's easier...

Discover a powerful, playful way to dissolve power struggles. What if you had a way to quickly dissolve tension and set limits that felt goo...

What these behaviors really mean, and how to see them off without blowing your top. Whining… Pestering… Days when everything has to be "just...

Emily and Kathy introduce step one of Hand in Hand's 3-step strategy for setting limits: Listen, Limit, Listen. Backtalk and power struggles...

Treating this verbal off-track behavior as defiance doesn't help it stop. Read on to learn what you can do instead. Logic and negotiation ar...

Re-evaluating how we think about "misbehavior," when kids don't do as we ask. Emily and Kathy look at the common parenting question, "Why wo...

Responding from the thinking brain versus reacting from the emotional system. How do you feel when you child won't stop complaining about a...

What is the true purpose of crying, and why are we in such a rush to shut tears down? When a child cries, a parent's first instinct is to tr...

If you expect a child to go off happily and play after giving them some good attention, you maybe in for some disappointment. Here's why......

Do some of your children's annoying behaviors show up time and time again? This week Emily and Kathy are talking about a child's repetitive...

Parents frequently ask hosts Emily and Kathy about how to stop bad behaviors, and the answer they give is often a surprise... Kathy explains...

Now that the Hand in Hand podcast is on hiatus, are you wondering where to get parenting support direct to your eats? You're invited to join...

This week: Handling Halloween Using the Hand in Hand Tools So, your kids are fighting over the Halloween candy stash, and their sugar highs...

Happy 100! This week - for our 100th episode - we turned the microphone over to you all. And we are SO excited to share this episode. You'll...

Where were you two years ago in parenting? Sometimes we get so caught up in the present-day challenges we forget to look back and see the pr...

Your heart sinks as you join the long line of people snaking the aisle at the grocery store. Your baby is already making those noises she ma...

So, today we're talking about the less sunny side of parenting. And when we say less sunny, we really mean those dark, never-ending winter-l...

Powerful ways To Solve Your child's sleep issues using the Hand in Hand Tools Your kid is going crazy about taking a bath. Just won't. You w...

So there it is. An invitation. Your child is waving it in your face with a grin brighter than gold. And you? Does your heart soar? Or sink?...

Coping with divorce? When today's guest, instructor Kristen Zuzek Volk, found Hand in Hand, she'd almost written off a loving relationship w...

You probably never imagined words like these erupting from your child's mouth. Dark. Venomous. Hurtful words. But here they are. "I hate you...

Want to increase your child's co-operation? Have them listen more? Reduce clinginess? Sometimes special time can feel like the magic balm in...

What gets you super seething mama mad? Is it the constant asks and requests, the "Mom where's my… that's so overwhelming? Maybe it's the pil...

If you catch yourself late at night, surrounded by toys, folding clothes and wondering why you don't have time or energy to take a shower, a...

What's the one thing you want for your child when they are sick? To have them feel better. What's the one thing that most often gets in the...

You probably got very excited when you discovered that Hand in Hand Parenting had five tools that could rescue you when parenting got sticky...

You just dropped one child at his playdate. Now you have 15 minutes to scoot across to the pool for your younger kid's swim lesson. Easy, ri...

Your child grabs the one extra cookie you said he wasn't allowed… What do you do? Or your daughter whines the minute she sees you pull out p...

Since we have all personally gone through potty training and we will all have to go through it with our kids, you'd think we'd have nailed d...

"Mom, I can't go to camp today. I have a stomachache." This is the third time this week your child has complained of a sore stomach, and yet...

Have you ever asked your child to do something simple, like pack their toys away before dinner? For a second they stare back and you wide-ey...

You sink down on the rug in tears and wonder how you can ever keep going. Then you see your daughter's abandoned stuffie under the sofa, nex...

Read on to learn why it pays to keep positive with your kids "Last cookie," you say, lightly. "No." Your son says. Then he stuffs the cookie...

The baby woke at 4am. His brother just 45 minutes later. Since then you've been puked on, drawn on, and changed three diapers. You burnt a b...

The last time you asked them to tidy their crayons, they smashed the whole box on the floor and ripped up the color sheet. You have to psych...

Do you know how bad your child feels when they mess up? They may look angry. They may look amused. They may show bravado. But in every kid t...