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sărbători cu armonie sau cu crize de furie? – Replay (in Romanian)

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

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How Tantrums Are Actually Beneficial to Family Life – Replay

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

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Understanding A Child’s Meltdown

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.

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A Little Special Time in the Morning

“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

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Un pic de timp special dimineața

“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

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How Parenting Triggers Past Hurts (and What You Can Do About It) – Replay

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

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How to Parent Your Tween and Stay Sane in the Process – Replay

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

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Parenting Preteens: Letting Them Grow, Keeping Them Close

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.

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Using the Hand in Hand Parenting Tools with Highly-Stressed Families Replay

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

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Replay of Back to School: New Beginnings and Big Feelings

    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

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Replay of Why Is Parenting so Much Harder Than I Expected?

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

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A Connection Checklist for the Back-to-School Transition

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

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Replay for Interpreting Behavior Through a New Lens: Using the Hand in Hand Tools to Provide Trauma-Sensitive Care

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

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How to Help Siblings in Blended Families Get Along

Blending a family, and nurturing new sibling relationships, isn’t a simple task. It requires us to be thoughtful of each child and remember the separate, and long-established, histories they each bring with them. Since there is no one structure to a blended family, children may be transitioning a lot. Your children may be coming and

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armonie între frați – Replay

Ai visat întotdeauna legătura aceea profundă dintre frați, afecțiunea și înțelegerea mai presus de cuvinte, susținerea și prietenia necondiționată. Dar te-ai ales cu copii care se ceartă, se necăjesc sau se jignesc unul pe altul, se lovesc sau pur și simplu nu par să se suporte? Te asigurăm că ei se iubesc! Au nevoie de

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Helping Children Face an Uncertain World – Replay

Listen in as Instructors discuss practical ways you can reassure children, bolster their confidence, and make yourself available to hear the emotions that weigh them down when the adult world becomes unsettled. Parents, grandparents, and caregivers are all welcome to listen to the replay of this podcast from Hand in Hand presented by Founder, Patty

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agresivitatea – între curaj și frică (Replay)

Mânuța aceea mică și plăpândă, care încape perfect în a ta, se ridică brusc și lovește fulgerător colegul de joacă. Lacrimile curg și tu nu știi dacă să pedepsești, să cerți sau să mângâi. Societatea îți cere totuși să intervii, deci trebuie să te hotărăști. Alexandra Moga și Irina Nichifiriuc îți dau o mână de

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