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Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast
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...
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What to Do When Your Child is Hitting
Understand the unseen fears that drive a child's aggression and stop it using nurturing supportive strategies. Emily and Kathy address a par...
Parenting After Separation: Revolutionary Ideas to Support Kids Through Divorce
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...
Does Birth Order Make a Difference?
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...
Helping Tweens and Teens Feel Heard: How to Respond Well When Your Older Child Needs to Let Off Steam
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...
Reset Your Day With Roughhousing With Special Guest Lawrence Cohen
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...
Keeping Connection Strong With Your Tween or Teen With Kirsten Nottleson
Strategies That Bring Smiles & Joy With Kirsten Nottleson Sometimes it feels like our tweens and teens are living on a different planet. How...
Rebuilding Connections: How to Repair With Your Kids After Losing Your Cool
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...
The Guilt-free Parent: How to Let Go of Guilt and Navigate Your Parent Journey With Compassion
"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...
Finding the Fun: Get Strategies for More Fun and Laughter in Your Daily Life With Kids
Strategies for infusing fun and laughter into your daily life with kids. When we approach parenting with a sense of playfulness, it can make...
How to Shift the Seriousness and Stress of Parenting and Have More Fun Instead
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...
5 Ways to Finally Overcome Yelling
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...
Why Is It So Hard to Stop Yelling?
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...
This Is a Better Solution Than Self-care for Parents
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...
Stop Threats and Bribes If You Want to Build More Cooperation
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...
How to Set Limits Without Anger & Punishments (and Still Get Things Done)
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...
How to Use Little Limits Stop a Child's Whining, Neediness & Pestering
What these behaviors really mean, and how to see them off without blowing your top. Whining… Pestering… Days when everything has to be "just...
Three Steps to Setting Good, Effective Limits (Step 1)
Emily and Kathy introduce step one of Hand in Hand's 3-step strategy for setting limits: Listen, Limit, Listen. Backtalk and power struggles...
Surprise Cures for Arguing, Whining and Backtalk
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...
What if Asking Why Your Kids Won't Listen is the Wrong Question?
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...