Powerful ways To Solve Your child’s sleep issues using the Hand in Hand Tools Your kid is going crazy about taking a bath. Just won’t. You wrangle and wrestle. It’s nearly bedtime after all. You are sooo close! Then when … Continue reading
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How to Handle Your Child’s Negative Words
In this week’s podcast, we’re talking those times that kids’ words get negative. You probably never imagined words like these erupting from your child’s mouth. Dark. Venomous. Hurtful words. But here they are. “I hate you!” Or worse. “I hate … Continue reading
3 smart, sensitive ways to respond to your child’s anxieties
The three ideas in this podcast will help you respond well to your child’s anxiety “Mom, I can’t go to camp today. I have a stomachache.” This is the third time this week your child has complained of a sore … Continue reading
Parenting the Strong-Willed Child
You may have heard about how your tenacious, persistent, negotiating go-getter is developing the skills he or she needs to be a great leader in the future, but daily parenting a strong-willed child can feel like an uphill battle. All … Continue reading
How to Get a Child to Eat When They Refuse
This week, Abigail and Elle respond to a listener who has a 5-year-old picky eater. How can she get her to eat more than a few reliable foods? Elle talks about her own process parenting her picky eater, including how … Continue reading
Parenting Tweens: Staying Close As Your Child Gets Older
Does it seem like one minute you were waiting for your baby to take its first steps, and now you are watching him or her as a tween marching out the door, bursting with independence? Worries about tantrums and them … Continue reading
Why Your Best New Year’s Resolution Could Be “No Resolutions”…
Why are we always compelled to start a new year with a list of resolutions that even a saint would be hard-pressed to keep up with? If there’s one thing every good parent is good at, it’s over-extending! We’re all … Continue reading
Your Blueprint for Building Better Habits and Good Behavior
So, you want your kids to walk in the door, hang their jacket, unpack their bags, eat quickly and get back out the door, freshly changed, for practice. But right now you are at, well, walk in the door. BOOM! … Continue reading
A Surprisingly Simple Tool You Can Use to Deal With Difficult Family Members
The holiday season is rolling around fast. Whether it’s Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, or New Years these festive times exist to bring family together. And while the holidays can be fun and merry events, for many of us they bring added … Continue reading
Reframing Your Past Could Be The Key To More Confident and Content Parenting
Psychologist and parenting expert Ross Greene coined quite the term when he said that “Kids do well when they can,” but isn’t exactly the same true of parents? Reframing your past could be the key to getting there, and becoming … Continue reading
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