By Patty Wipfler Sooner or later, almost every child gets carried away by strong emotions. For some children, it’s an everyday occurrence. We parents can get carried away ourselves, especially when we have one or more children whose feelings erupt … Continue reading
Tag Archives: aggression in children
How Listening to My Angry Son Helped Us Connect
Staylistening with Raluca Dobre I have been trying to figure out respectful and efficient ways of supporting my six year old unload his negative emotions for a few years. It’s been very hard, even more because there is no such struggle … Continue reading
How Is it Possible to Parent Without Punishment?
“Are your parents strict?” was once the only question that seemed to define parenting. Now we have dozens of labels, from gentle and calm parenting to authoritative and authoritarian. We have tiger moms, positive parents, peaceful parents, even unparents. Hand … Continue reading
Are Secret Fears Driving Your Child’s Aggression?
What is Hand in Hand Parenting?: Day 8 In the last of our series of Listen Launch Posts, Patty Wipfler talks about how children’s deep down fears can erupt in patterns of aggression and how releasing those fears comes through a … Continue reading
Power Play: What to Do When Play Turns Bad
By Heidi Grainger Russell Children’s playful giggles and laughter can soon boil over and frenzied excitement erupts into power struggles, arguments and aggression. So how can you step in safely to diffuse a play situation headed south? Hand in Hand’s Heidi Grainger Russell explains … Continue reading
20 Playful Ways To Heal Aggression
Aggression is common in toddlers, but that doesn’t mean it’s inevitable. The Hand in Hand parenting philosophy is based on the fact that all children are naturally, good, loving and co-operative.
Kissing All the Yucky Stuff Out – a Playful Way to Stop the Hitting!
My four-year-old son, feeling disconnected from me, hit his little sister over the head quite hard. I couldn’t get there in time to physically stop him, and my daughter ran to me screaming. While I held her, I looked over to my son, sitting by himself looking so hurt, guilty, and upset too.
When Your Child Hurts Another: Working Through Upset
When my daughter was just under two years old, we were playing one day with a friend and her one-year old son. While gently nuzzling the leg of the younger boy, my daughter suddenly took his thigh in her mouth … Continue reading
Helping my Child Become Who She is Meant to Be
I wasn’t sure if she would be different after in the days following, but now that a few weeks have passed I can tell you the answer is yes…My frenetic daughter, whom people often would suggest was hyperactive, is now calm and even-keeled. She remains an energetic, highly curious child, but no one would ever use the word hyperactive.
Dr. Lawrence Cohen on Why Every Parent Should Take “No More Hitting!”
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