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What's Next? How About a Mind Flip
Now that the Hand in Hand podcast is on hiatus, are you wondering where to get parenting support direct to your eats? You're invited to join Abigail during the hiatus for her Mother Flipping Awesome podcast where she...
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Handling the Halloween Howls Using the Hand in Hand Tools
This week: Handling Halloween Using the Hand in Hand Tools So, your kids are fighting over the Halloween candy stash, and their sugar highs (and begging for more) send your blood pressure soaring. Maybe you have a...
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You're Invited To The Celebration - 100th Episode Podcast Party Starring YOU
Happy 100! This week - for our 100th episode - we turned the microphone over to you all. And we are SO excited to share this episode. You'll hear just what led parents to the Hand in Hand podcast, the breathtaking...
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So, How Far Have You Come in Your Parenting?
Where were you two years ago in parenting? Sometimes we get so caught up in the present-day challenges we forget to look back and see the progress we've made. And we should! A week before the 100th episode of the...
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The Best Ways to Rise Strong After Mom Shame
 Your heart sinks as you join the long line of people snaking the aisle at the grocery store. Your baby is already making those noises she makes when she wants you to hold her, and there are about 15 minutes until...
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What happens when you want to walk out on parenting?
So, today we’re talking about the less sunny side of parenting. And when we say less sunny, we really mean those dark, never-ending winter-like days that are bleak, lonely and cold. They hurt. Some of us live in...
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Powerful Ways To Banish Fear of the Dark (and other things that kids say go bump in the night)
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...
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How to help Kids Manage Their Friendships
So there it is. An invitation. Your child is waving it in your face with a grin brighter than gold.  And you? Does your heart soar? Or sink? Acceptance Similarity Belonging Self-worth Influence Betrayal Here's Why...
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How to Keep Your Family Strong and Loving after Divorce
Coping with divorce? When today’s guest, instructor Kristen Zuzek Volk, found Hand in Hand, she’d almost written off a loving relationship with her daughter. After divorcing, her two kids were screaming, crying and...
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How to Handle Your Child's Negative Words
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 myself.” “I want to die.” Words that make us want...
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Can Special Time Really Increase My Child’s Level of Cooperation?Â
Want to increase your child's co-operation? Have them listen more? Reduce clinginess? Sometimes special time can feel like the magic balm in parenting. It can: Boost your child’s confidence. It can build their...
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Do You Know the Best Way Out of Parent Anger?
What gets you super seething mama mad? Is it the constant asks and requests, the “Mom where’s my… that’s so overwhelming? Maybe it’s the piles of toys and dishes and chip packets you asked to be tidied but are still...
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