Simple Ways to Be a More Peaceful Parent
Tuesday, January 9 2018
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Finding ways to be a peaceful parent is much simpler than we make it out to be.
Category: Articles
sărbători cu armonie sau cu crize de furie? – Replay (in Romanian)
Tuesday, December 12 2017
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Urmează o perioadă încărcată din punct de vedere emoțional și am dori să venim în întâmpinarea voastră cu o nouă perspectivă asupra plânsului neconsolat și a crizelor de furie. De obicei, vacanțele reprezintă pentru noi toți o perioadă de deconectare de la serviciu și de apropiere de cei dragi. Dar, poate ați observat că așteptările
How Tantrums Are Actually Beneficial to Family Life – Replay
Wednesday, December 6 2017
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It’s easy to feel infuriated when your child becomes rigidly uncooperative or loses it over the tiniest, most illogical thing. But what if tantrums were actually a healthy and useful phenomenon? In this call replay with Hand in Hand Instructors Marilupe de la Calle and Roma Norriss, learn more about your children’s emotions and discover
Understanding A Child’s Meltdown
Wednesday, December 6 2017
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A child’s meltdown is often the quickest way to heal the upset. Distracting with food, or promises of getting another toy, allows the upset feeling to be prolonged. The child will then find another pretext later to trigger the rest of her tantrum.
A Little Special Time in the Morning
Monday, November 27 2017
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“She’s so clingy,” I found myself complaining about my one-year-old daughter. “I can’t get anything done!” Almost all the mothers with babies of a similar age agree with me. We spend our days socializing in baby groups, or at other people’s houses, trying to avoid going back to our own homes. My baby seems fine when we are
Un pic de timp special dimineața
Monday, November 27 2017
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“Se ține scai de mine”, m-am trezit că mă plâng de fetița mea de un an. “Nu pot să fac nimic!” Mai toate mamele cu bebeluși cam de de aceeași vârstă sunt de acord cu mine. Ne petrecem zilele socializând la grupuri de bebe sau acasă la alții încercând să evitam să ne întoarcem la
How Parenting Triggers Past Hurts (and What You Can Do About It) – Replay for Parents
Wednesday, November 8 2017
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Join Certified Instructors Sandra Flear and Robin Setchko for this podcast for parents and professionals. They discuss what interpersonal neurobiology is teaching us about how early memories are formed, and how parenting can trigger the feelings attached to difficult early experiences in parents. They also discussed how these experiences are repaired, and how listening partnerships
How Parenting Triggers Past Hurts (and What You Can Do About It) – Replay for Professionals
Wednesday, November 8 2017
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Join Certified Instructors Sandra Flear and Robin Setchko for this replay of a previous free parenting call for parents and professionals. During this call they discussed what interpersonal neurobiology is teaching us about how early memories are formed, and how parenting can re-stimulate difficult early experiences in parents. They also discussed how these experiences are
Relational Trauma, Neuroplasticity, and Tools for Parents
Tuesday, November 7 2017
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For parents, neurobiology now provides insights into how our memories affect our everyday interactions with our children, and helps us understand how we can repair the damage left by our own difficult early experiences.
How to Parent Your Tween and Stay Sane in the Process – Replay
Tuesday, October 17 2017
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Parenting is challenging at the best of times, but as your children move towards adolescence, there are fresh challenges. Our relationship with them has history, we have been parenting longer and are often a little weary (to say the least), and we are busy. Did you know that research suggests that the parents of children
Parenting Preteens: Letting Them Grow, Keeping Them Close
Wednesday, October 4 2017
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Ah, parenting preteens, finally our kids are ready to stand on their own two feet. Our job is nearly done. Our children, as they grow into pre-teens, don’t need us so much. Right? Wrong! They need our love and warm attention, just as much now as when they clung to us sobbing on their first day at school. They need our confidence in them. They need our faith in their intrinsic goodness. They need our conviction that they can figure out this perplexing, sometimes hostile world and find their place.
Using the Hand in Hand Parenting Tools with Highly-Stressed Families Replay
Wednesday, September 13 2017
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You may already know how incredibly helpful Hand in Hand Parenting’s tools can be for the average family, but did you know these tools are just as effective even when families are facing highly stressful situations? Join Hand in Hand Founder and Program Director, Patty Wipfler, and Instructors Megha Mawandia and Ceci Hyoun, for this inspiring discussion on
Replay of Back to School: New Beginnings and Big Feelings
Wednesday, August 16 2017
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Learn Hand in Hand Parenting tools to help handle the tears and fears that come with the new school year, and get your kids off to a great start. Join Certified Hand in Hand Instructors Marilupe de la Calle and Heidi Russell in this free parenting call replay. more from the hand
Replay of Why Is Parenting so Much Harder Than I Expected?
Wednesday, August 2 2017
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Parents today face many challenges that can leave us feeling exhausted, confused, guilty and isolated. For many of us, parenting hasn’t been the joy we thought it would be and sometimes it seems like our children can’t recognize all the love and caring we have to offer. When did it get so hard? Join Hand
A Connection Checklist for the Back-to-School Transition
Monday, July 31 2017
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Recently, I took my younger daughter to her preschool after a vacation break of 10 days. This transition back to our usual rhythm, and her emotional response to it, reminded me of the many times over the years that both my daughters (ages 3 and 9) have clearly shown me that going to school is
Replay for Interpreting Behavior Through a New Lens: Using the Hand in Hand Tools to Provide Trauma-Sensitive Care
Wednesday, July 26 2017
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Professionals in the education, mental health, and public health fields are beginning to recognize the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on children’s regulatory capacities, which in turn shape their functioning in relationships within their family, their classroom and the wider community. The ‘super-protective factor’ that promotes resilience in the context of toxic stress is