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How Much is Too Much? Tools to Help Children that Need Constant Attention
How much attention does your child need? Have you ever heard the phrase "You can't pour from an empty cup?" When we spend time with our children, do Special Time, listen and care for them, we naturally fill their...
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Rethinking Tickling: Why You Might Want To Rethink Tickling Kids
Tickling seems like a good, reliable route to laughter and fun, so why might we suggest rethinking it? Today on the podcast the Elle and Abigail talk about Hand in Hand's approach to tickling and how they tackled it...
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Raising Boys and Girls Differently According to Brain Science
Today Elle and Abigail are talking to New York Times bestselling author, neuro-biologist and family counselor Michael Gurian. We're talking boys, girls and their differences, and raising boys and girls so each...
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Why Telling Your Birth Story Can Help In Your Parenting
This week Elle and Abigail are telling their birth stories... Now, why would they want to do that? Birth can engulf us with emotions that linger way beyond the time our children are babies, but we rarely have an...
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Tips and Tools for Tackling Transitions
One thing we hear a ton about in parenting is transitions - partly because they can be so draining and deafening! This week Abigail and Elle are tackling transitions and what we can do to make them smoother. Top Tools...
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Parenting Consistently: A New Approach That Actually Works
Have you ever felt bound by the need to be consistent in your parenting, and then felt the failure when you couldn't be? We're often told that when we are consistent around schedules, eating, playing, tidying,...
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Listening to You: Real-Life Stories From Parents Using Hand in Hand Parenting Tools
This week's episode is a very special one - we're listening to you! Abigail recorded the real-life "before and after" stories of parents using Hand in Hand Parenting's tools, and they are encouraging, inspirational,...
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The Politics of Parenting: Feeling Good About Your Role as a Parent
If you read the title of our podcast this week and thought, "Huh? What does politics have to do with parenting," you aren't alone! Elle asks this too after Abigail gets an email about parenting feeling "radical." Do...
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Embracing Aggressive and Risky Play Helps Us and Our Kids
Taa-daa! Today we are celebrating our first special guest on the podcast, the wonderful Dr. Lawrence J. Cohen, psychologist and the author of Playful Parenting, The Opposite of Worry and co-author of The Art of...
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How to Keep Calm When Your Kids Make You Crazy Angry
Aggression, anger, yelling... Abigail and Elle talk about the times when parenting their kids made them crazy angry - and there are lots! They go back to the very start of early years parenting and what set them off,...
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Talking tweens (and their tantrums)
This week on the podcast talk turns to tweens and what it takes to parent through what can be turbulent times. With Abigail parenting a double tween household and Elle raising a 10-year-old, there’s plenty of...
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Children's Aggressive Behavior Comes Down to this One Thing
Hitting? Pinching? Kicking? Most children act aggressively but it can be very tough to see and understand. When a child is aggressive our instinct is often to shut it down - "Don’t hit," we say, or "I don’t want to...
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