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To remain an Active Hand in Hand Instructor, we require that you stay active, informed, and well-supported in your practice of Hand in Hand Parenting. When you pay your Instructor fee you are agreeing to
Help For The Holidays: How To Deal With A Child’s Disappointments
What happens when a child’s disappointment threatens to overshadow the happiness and joy you have worked so hard to give them? Read on as Raluca Zagura shines new light on disappointment and how to respond
Do You Have To Do Screen Time For Special Time If Your Child Requests It?
“I’ll do anything you want during Special Time…” When you offer your children Special Time, sooner or later they realise exciting doors have opened for them. One of them is screen time. It took a
Ways To Make Time For Listening Partnerships That Might Make Parenting Easier
If you ever get short-tempered, exhausted, tearful or find yourself at the end of your rope with parenting, here’s some good news. There is a parenting Tool you can use to naturally relieve this tension
What To Do When You Feel Stuck About How To Handle Your Child’s Behavior
Do you ever feel unsure about how to respond to your child? Whether it’s a request they make of you or, like instructor Michelle Hartop shares in this post, an idea they have for play,
Help! My Child Won’t Let Me Staylisten…What Can I Do?
Those of us who know the power in expressing all of our feelings feel differently about crying. Instead of shutting down crying, we welcome the tears. When those of us in the know get together,
Handle Parent Anger In The Moment And After
It was 7am. I could barely keep my eyes open and my son was already surly. I was trying to make myself some tea and him some breakfast. After a few minor complaints about my
Stop Parenting On Auto-Pilot And Become Responsive Instead?
Feel like you are parenting on auto-respond? Here’s how I make to shift to responsive parenting. Upstairs the kids were thumping around and shouting at each other. I paused from chopping mushrooms, hoping they’d stop,
Tantrum Training For Parents In Four Simple Steps
I’ll let you in on a profound insight that changed my life. Your kids don’t need tantrum training but you probably do! No doubt you have always been shown and told that tantrums are a
Simple Ways For Parents To Lighten The Load On Days That Feel Hard
First, let’s just state the obvious: parenting is much harder work than any of us ever imagined. For so many reasons. The Surgeon General of the United States has issued an advisory on the health
Are We Being Oversold On Self-Care?
What do you think of when you think of self-care? Is it a manicure? A bubble bath? A solo trip to the grocery store? Maybe a chat on the phone with a friend? Finally making
Struggling With Hand In Hand? Don’t Stress, You Aren’t Failing, You Aren’t Alone, And Here’s Why.
Feel like you are struggling with Hand in Hand? It’s not you. Really. I remember walking into my first Hand in Hand class. At last, I thought. Someone was going to give me some simple
Warm Kind Ways To Stop Your Toddler Running Away
My mum tells this story about how, when I was 18 months old, I climbed to the top of a very tall slide, cunningly waited for her to get to the top of the ladder
Co-Parenting? How To Help Everyone In The Family Have A Smoother Transition
On any given week our family can have anywhere from 0, 1, 2, or 3 children in our home. As a blended family we are constantly in flux as schedules change and children move back
When a Child Prefers One Parent
It took months to organise, but today you escaped for lunch with two old friends and left your kids with your partner. Secretly, you couldn’t be happier. Your youngest is going through a phase that
Parent Burnout? Six Kind Practices You Can Use To Lift Yourself When You Feel Down About Your Parenting
Exhaustion, anxiousness and negative thoughts can all indicate parent burnout. And yet, parents need to parent, they cannot give up. These practices will help when you are feeling down about yourself or parenting. Another
Resolving Family Feuds Starts With You
You don’t have to live with family tension year after year. It’s possible to break old patterns of relating and forge new relationships within your family by getting support for yourself, taking the time to listen