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One Way to Build Empathy With Parents You Work With

When parents feel supported, they can begin to offload and detect patterns in their behavior. As this happens, they can become receptive to change and new behaviors and have a higher chance of making new

How does Hand in Hand help families?

Did you know that Hand in Hand Parenting is a registered non-profit? Here’s some of the people and projects we’ve worked with recently. There are lots of way…

One Tool For Raising Happier Tweens

Devote 5 minutes a day, and watch your relationship strengthen. For a deeper explanation and how-to, download this chapter from our book.  

Tween Panel

Interim CEO Noelani Pearl Hunt hosts this tween panel with Certified Instructors Sareli Beltran and Madeleine Winter. Connect with Madeleine (Sydney, AUS) – …

Quel est le problème avec la fessée ?

Un article traduit de l’anglais par Soizic Le Gouais et Chloé Saint Guilhem, formatrice certifiée Hand in Hand Dans de nombreuses cultures occidentales, la permission de fesser les enfants remonte à très loin dans l’histoire.

How to Support Your Growing Preteen

Hand in Hand Founder Patty Wipfler answers your parenting questions on parenting tweens.  For a deep dive into how to use Hand in Hand to create more cooperation and a deeper relationship with your preteen,

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Starting School Part 1 – How to Pack the Backpack

Starting school, whether it’s for the first time, entering a new school, or even returning to a familiar school after a break, can be a challenge for both our children and ourselves. And we mean

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Starting School – for Grown Ups

If summer is drawing to a close, you may be starting to think about the start of school.  Or you might be preparing for your child to start school in the New Year.  For some,

Starting School Part 2 – How to Unpack the Backpack

Starting school for the first time, or after the long summer holidays, can pull up old feelings of separation. Be kind to yourselves and your children: leave time for some extra upsets over the first few weeks, as the scab is lifted again, and as feelings about school and about leaving you surface again. Take every opportunity you can to listen to your child – when they seem to be having big upsets about small things, or they seem to be much more clingy than usual.

These Five Things Make for Happy New Parents

Having a baby is like moving to a new country. We have lots of questions as we get to know this new person in our lives and many feelings can surface for us in the

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