Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast

You sink down on the rug in tears and wonder how you can ever keep going. Then you see your daughter’s abandoned stuffie under the sofa, next to an overdue library book, so you scoop them out, tuck them on the shelf, shove your hair in a bun, and get started with the laundry.

What happened to your tears? You discarded them like your daughter did her stuffie.

Welcome to mom overwhelm.

Mom overwhelm is the science of feeling crushed by the weight of life and living it anyway!

This week, we’re making space for overwhelm and talking about the ways we can bust through it.

If you feel like a cog in a wheel of making breakfast and answering email and rushing to activities and getting laundry done and finding lost library books and washing bodies and reading story books and wait, when did you last really see your partner?

Listen in.

quick smart tips to conquer your mom overwhelm

Today we talk turning that overwhelm around…

• Why is overwhelm like eating a really hot curry
• Why modern life creates a perfect environment for overwhelm to flourish
• How to cultivate walk away moments
• Why you need to listen to warnings as whispers and see if they grow loud
• How redefining your mom role can create space and recognition
• Why urgent and important are not the same thing
• How to go to bed feeling happier you moved the needle

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School’s out and so are we

Summer enrolment for the Parent Club is closing soon. Check out our special summer offer…before it’s gone

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We’d love to hear about your parenting challenges. You can follow Hand in Hand on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Be sure to drop Elle and Abigail a message at podcast@handinhandparenting.org

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Read on to learn why it pays to keep positive with your kids

"Last cookie," you say, lightly.

"No." Your son says. Then he stuffs the cookie into his mouth, grabs three more and runs from the room. 

You're just about to charge from the kitchen in a chase when your eyes fall on another set of eyes.

Your younger son.

Wide-eyed and wondering. 

Who's in charge here? his eyes seem to say.

How far can we push you? Are you going to...lose it? 

This week we're talking the kid that pushes your buttons...and the brothers and sisters who are watching. 

How does what you say or do in the heat of the moment reflect on them?

Abigail shares a big win when she got her over-tired tween to bed early, despite his resistance at every opportunity. But what surprised her most was how her younger son responded.

Listen in and feel inspired if you:

• Struggle with keeping calm in Staylistening
• Feel like one of your kids is playing you or pushing your buttons
• Get sucked into debate and reasoning with your child when you set a limit
• You feel like one child takes up so much more of your energy than the other
• Power battles between you and one child results in your kids taking sides
• Feel like you always give in...

You'll see how your responses can impacts everyone in your house - including you! And why it pays to keep positive with your children in ways you might not imagine. 

find your tribe

School's out and so are we

Summer enrolment for the Parent Club is closing soon. Check out our special summer offer...before it's gone

Become Mother-Flipping-Awesome!

Join Abigail’s rocking new community and be mother-flipping-awesome. Go here to get registered now.

Stay connected

We’d love to hear about your parenting challenges. You can follow Hand in Hand on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Be sure to drop Elle and Abigail a message at podcast@handinhandparenting.org

• Listen on iTunes.
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• Don’t forget to subscribe!

Get weekly tips, ideas, and inspiration for your parenting in our newsletter

The last time you asked them to tidy their crayons, they smashed the whole box on the floor and ripped up the color sheet.

You have to psyche yourself up when you need them to turn off the TV, because…BOOM! Epic meltdown.

Forget about asking for a hug. Your child wriggles away from your hand on his shoulder.

Does every request you make send your child into a raging meltdown?

You spend life walking on eggshells. (As well as Lego bricks.)

But, do you know what?

This is actually when your child needs you most of all.

But how do you get close when your child acts like a tiny tyrant, doing everything they can to push you away? When it’s hard to even be in a room with them?

you need to get close when your child pushes you away. here’s why.

This week, Abigail and Elle show you how to maximise a special tool you can use when you want to transform meltdowns into closeness and co-operation. Use it to stop power battles and turn your child’s difficult, defiant behaviors around.

On the podcast this week:

• Learn what your child’s ongoing acts of aggression and rage are showing you
• How to take shouting and screaming and turn then into smiles
• Maximise the tool so you two can laugh, play and actually enjoy each other again.

If you are exhausted or confused by your child’s rage and meltdowns, listen in now and get these simple solutions you can apply today.

get your guide to special time

New to Special Time? Here’s a free chapter from our book Listen. Learn all about this amazing tool.

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Join Abigail’s rocking new community and be mother- flipping-awesome. Go here to get registered now.

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We’d love to hear about your parenting challenges. You can follow Hand in Hand on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Be sure to drop Elle and Abigail a message at podcast@handinhandparenting.org

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Do you know how bad your child feels when they mess up?

They may look angry. They may look amused. They may show bravado.

But in every kid that messes up is a pit of shame, sadness, confusion and doubt about their own self-worth.

How do we know? Because aren't those the exact same feelings we adults feel when we mess up - when we really look inside?

And we parents often heap on that shame.

You get into blame and guilt, lectures and stand-offs. Just the way you were treated when you were little.

If you want to avoid the stand-offs, forced apologies, shame and humiliation we experienced when we messed up, we need new tools and new responses.

This week we share three ways to respond that will actually build trust and empathy with your child - whether mistakes are big or small!

Discover 3 Responses You Can Use To Build Trust and Avoid Shame

On this week's podcast, we're talking mistakes - when you make them and when your kid makes them. Listen in for:

• Why confrontation and blame only builds kids shame and self-loathing
• Why empathy isn't a soft response when it comes to mistakes
• Why sharing your own mistakes maybe the best thing you can do when your child messes up
• Three different approaches you can use to build trust when your child messes up (or feels like they have)
• How to show your child that mistakes can be teachable moments

When mistakes happen in your house, these tools and ideas will guide and support your child and boost trust.

Join us this week for How to Respond to Your Kid's Mistakes in a Way You Can Be Proud Of

Here's the download Elle mentions. Reduce the stress of parenting! Get now

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Stay connected

We’d love to hear about your parenting challenges. You can follow Hand in Hand on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Be sure to drop Elle and Abigail a message at podcast@handinhandparenting.org

• Listen on iTunes.
• Listen on Stitcher
• Don’t forget to subscribe!

Get weekly tips, ideas, and inspiration for your parenting in our newsletter

How do you make like Meghan Markle and stand strong when you face loud and opposing opinions on how you *should be* raising your child?

Meghan and Harry have broken many a protocol since bringing royal baby Archie into the world, from not using the royal family's preferred hospital to Harry holding Archie at a (delayed) press call.

No-one is telling them how to raise a prince, not even the queen!

How About You?

How can you get the same support from your family when your ideas about parenting differ from theirs?

How you can avoid endless confrontations and feuds?

How can you stand strong when their feelings rock you and you face indecision and uncertainty about your parenting style?

Hand in Hand Parenting can seem very different to an older generation, and even younger friends and family that find mainstream parenting practices successful for them. So, how can we show the differences in a positive light without alienating anyone?

Listen to this episode and find out how to own your parenting when your family wants to rule over you.

• Why your parenting ideas rub moms and mom-in-laws up the wrong way and how you can ease this
• One easy tip for keeping everyone happy when your child moves offtrack and everyone expects you to act (and no, you won't need to time-out)
• How to see the good in their criticism and ways to handle their opinions

Get More Support and Resources for Times Family is Judgmental

• Try these five tips for responding when you feel judged about your parenting
• Get the book Listen, to hear the 100s of stories from families using these tools. 

Find Your Tribe

Don't go it alone!

The Hand in Hand Parent Club offers daily support from instructors, with free access to our Setting Limits class, and monthly Q&A Sessions with Hand in Hand's Founder Patty Wipfler.

We're re-opening in the summer. Drop us an email at Podcast@Handinhandparenting.org and we'll be in touch about dates.

Get ready to join Abigail's rocking new community and be mother- flipping-awesome. Go here to get registered now.

How do you make like Meghan Markle and stand strong when you face loud and opposing opinions on how you *should be* raising your child?

Meghan and Harry have broken many a protocol since bringing royal baby Archie into the world, from not using the royal family's preferred hospital to Harry holding Archie at a (delayed) press call.

No-one is telling them how to raise a prince, not even the queen!

How About You?

How can you get the same support from your family when your ideas about parenting differ from theirs?

How you can avoid endless confrontations and feuds?

How can you stand strong when their feelings rock you and you face indecision and uncertainty about your parenting style?

Hand in Hand Parenting can seem very different to an older generation, and even younger friends and family that find mainstream parenting practices successful for them. So, how can we show the differences in a positive light without alienating anyone?

Listen to this episode and find out how to own your parenting when your family wants to rule over you.

• Why your parenting ideas rub moms and mom-in-laws up the wrong way and how you can ease this
• One easy tip for keeping everyone happy when your child moves offtrack and everyone expects you to act (and no, you won't need to time-out)
• How to see the good in their criticism and ways to handle their opinions

Get More Support and Resources for Times Family is Judgmental

• Try these five tips for responding when you feel judged about your parenting
• Get the book Listen, to hear the 100s of stories from families using these tools. 

Find Your Tribe

Don't go it alone!

The Hand in Hand Parent Club offers daily support from instructors, with free access to our Setting Limits class, and monthly Q&A Sessions with Hand in Hand's Founder Patty Wipfler.

We're re-opening in the summer. Drop us an email at Podcast@Handinhandparenting.org and we'll be in touch about dates.

Get ready to join Abigail's rocking new community and be mother- flipping-awesome. Go here to get registered now.

Elle confesses that she really sucks at setting limits with her kids - and together she and Abigail suss out ways to make rules, boundaries and enforcing them a whole lot easier.

Join us this week if you've ever battled with yourself about when to set limits, or found that whenever you do set limits your kids just don't seem to listen.

Listen to the podcast this week and learn

• Top 3 reasons why limit setting is failing you
• Ways you can reframe what it means to set limits
• Why backchat isn't all bad
• Why determining what matters for you and your family really helps you set limits more effectively.

If you want to stop yelling and start setting calm limits, or you are sick of your buttons and boundaries getting pushed, join us for this podcast.

More Resources for Setting Limits with your Kids

Discover Hand in Hand's 3-Step Approach to Setting Limits in this free ebook

Take our online Setting Limits class and get proven tools to set healthy limits that fosters closeness and cooperation in your family. Sign up here, or register for the Hand in Hand Parent Club and get this class free with your membership.

Stay Connected

We’d love to hear about your parenting challenges. You can follow Hand in Hand on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Be sure to drop Elle and Abigail a message at podcast@handinhandparenting.org

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• Don’t forget to subscribe!

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We know we love our kids, but that doesn't stop them being hard to like sometimes.

This podcast is for you if you ever wondered how you were going to get through the next few hours with your kids close by.

We talk about how we get to the point where the dread feels real and we share things you can do when parenting feels this hard.

Listen to What To Do When You Aren't So Psyched To See Your Kids and

• Find the hidden power in giving in to a bad day
• Get play ideas and ideas for when play seems just too hard
• Learn how to hold off on constant control and mommy managing
• Why it's vital to have your own time to whine and tantrum sometimes

We also wanted to take a moment to thank you for being here and seeking ways for happier days with your family - you are amazing for all the caring you do.

More Resources For Help for Hard Times in Parenting

This is the Listening Partnerships online class we mention. Don't forget you can get it for 25% off when you join the Hand in Hand Parent Club.

Stay Connected

We’d love to hear about your parenting challenges. You can follow Hand in Hand on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Be sure to drop Elle and Abigail a message at podcast@handinhandparenting.org

This week Abigail and Elle respond to a mom who feels like she sees power struggles, aggression and kickback when she's parenting the way she wants to, and compliance only once she gets mad.

Are her efforts to parent kindly back-firing? And why would that be?

On the podcast this week we talk about:

• What to expect when parenting with respect
• Setting boundaries on your own levels of calm
• Comparison parenting and why no way is the perfect way
• What power struggles actually mean, and working on embracing them as a win not a loss.

Join us if you've ever felt like your efforts at being an empathetic parent are lost on your child and learn why that definitely is not what is happening!

More Resources on Mean Words and Mean Moms

This article on how kids acquire bad words and re-use them is very insightful. Read Bad Words from Good Kids.

"Mean mom," comments can be very triggering. Here's how instructor Irina handles it step-by-step. My Child Calls Me Mean Mom. What Should I Do?

Stay connected

We’d love to hear about your parenting challenges. You can follow Hand in Hand on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Be sure to drop Elle and Abigail a message at podcast@handinhandparenting.org

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You know about setting warm limits: Moving in calmly when you need to stop a behavior, but what happens when it feels like there is no chance to keep calm?

Like, your child is about to stick their finger in the power socket. Or dashes out across a busy street. Then how do you set a warm limit then?

On the podcast this week, we talk about the Hard No. And why no is hard! When no means no - and those times you aren't even sure your no needs to be hard.

• Discover how Abigail handles a hard - and fast - no when there is no doubt a quick, firm limit needs to be set.
• How to evaluate if a no needs to be hard.
• What happens when your no is hard and then you realise it doesn't need to be.

Join us this week for Setting Limits: The Hard No, and figure out how to stay firm and keep cool.

For more resources on Setting Limits, try these:

Do you know what or why you are setting a limit? It can really help to know. Here's four limits kids need and why to set them.

Read Abigail's post about how to connect before you set limits in One thing to do Before Setting Limits

Want more on Setting Limits? There's 3 days left of our Setting Limits challenge. You get daily ideas for setting limits plus access to our online class on the weekend. You can join here.

Stay connected

We’d love to hear about your parenting challenges. You can follow Hand in Hand on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Be sure to drop Elle and Abigail a message at podcast@handinhandparenting.org

• Listen on iTunes.
• Listen on Stitcher
• Don’t forget to subscribe!

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Where does the need to be competitive come from and why does it rub us parents up the wrong way? This week Abigail and Elle respond to one mom about her son's competitive streak.

On Help! My Kid Keeps Bragging we talk about:

• Is your child's competitive streak signalling some other need?
• Competitiveness and confidence
• Is competition bad, anyways?
• Why sometimes it's good to bask with your child in their glory

Figure out what's causes a child to get competitive, and get new ways to handle things when your kids start telling you "I'm fastest," "I'm fittest," "I'm best."

Get More Resources for Helping Competitive Kids

• Helping Super Competitive Children Relax
• Three Ways to Help a Competitive Child
• Tools to Help Children That Need Constant Attention

This is the Hand in Hand 30 Parenting Challenge fundraiser that we mention at the end of the podcast. It's not too late to join...

Stay connected

We’d love to hear about your parenting challenges. You can follow Hand in Hand on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Be sure to drop Elle and Abigail a message at podcast@handinhandparenting.org

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• Don’t forget to subscribe!

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So, you may be fairly new to Hand in Hand's approach or maybe you've been trying out the tools for a few months, even years. But at some point you'll probably - most likely when you are particularly tired or frustrated - ask, "Is Hand in Hand too hard???"

We know!

We've been there!

This week, Elle and Abigail talk about when and why this question pops up. They explore the alternatives and share their own experiences about when it's happened to them - and don't forget Abigail has been parenting this way for about a decade! Plus, we also walk you through ways to get past this ickiness so that you really do find your calm place in parenting.

We've been there too - it really can happen!

Listen to Finding Your Calm Place in Parenting - It Really Can Happen and find out:

• Why we reach our limits with this approach
• Why other parenting styles may offer a quick fix that seems good in the moment and how this compares with Hand in Hand over time
• What we can do to get on track
• How to navigate those darker moments

More Resources For Getting Support As Parents

Haven't tried Listening Time yet? Read about how it differs from chatting with friends and post for a partner in our free Facebook Connect support group

Listen to Abigail and Elle's podcast A Little Lite Listening Partnerships Demonstration

For daily support from instructors, plus regular Q&A call-ins with them and our founder Patty Wipfler, join the Hand in Hand Parent Club.

stay connected

We’d love to hear about your parenting challenges. You can follow Hand in Hand on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Be sure to drop Elle and Abigail a message at podcast@handinhandparenting.org

• Listen on iTunes.
• Listen on Stitcher
• Don’t forget to subscribe!

Get weekly tips, ideas, and inspiration for your parenting in our Newsletter

Join us as we continue examining how nature, nurture and culture affects boys and girls, with social philosopher and author Michael Gurian.

On Part 2 of this series, Michael talks about how we can use what science says to raise resilient girls.

On this week's episode:

• The way mothers and fathers empathise differently, and why this can be beneficial in building resilience and boundaries
• Why fathering is essential for adolescent girls, and what happens in same sex families
• How girls can get locked in perception and destructive thought patterns and how parents can help unlock this
• Why nurturing our girls according to their nature builds resilience

Listen to Part Two of Raising Resilient Girls now

more resources for raising resilient girls

Learn more about Micheal’s work at www.GurianInstitute.com and read more about his approach to raising girls in his book The Minds of Girls.

Join Michael and Abigail at this year’s Summer Institute.

Hear Micheal on Part One of this podcast, and his talk with us about Raising Boys - Raising Boys and Girls Differently

Raising a tween? Get help navigating the changing landscape and challenges of keeping connected as your child steps further into independence. With tools that supports you, your child and your relationship.

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We’d love to hear about your parenting challenges. You can follow Hand in Hand on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Be sure to drop Elle and Abigail a message at podcast@handinhandparenting.org

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Social philosopher, family therapist, and New York Times best-selling author Michael Gurian returns to the podcast this week for some girl talk!

Last time Michael guested with us, talk turned to boys. But why even separate talk about boys and girls? Michael explains the fundamental differences in brain science between girls and boys and why these difference affect:

• How girls learn and process information
• Why the mean girl phenomenon happens and why this can be an important part of a girl's rise into maturity
• Why some girls are more prone to anxiety that can lead to self-harm like eating disorders
• Cyclical thought processes that can stall our girls' decision- and action- taking.

Michael suggests ways that we can observe what's happening in our girls' lives and support them to be strong and resilient.

Join us this week for some fascinating insight on how the world looks for girls and the practical ways you can guide yours.

More Resources for Raising Resilient Girls

Learn more about Micheal's work at www.GurianInstitute.com and read more about his approach to raising girls in his book The Minds of Girls.

Join Michael and Abigail at this year's Summer Institute.

Hear Micheal talk about Raising Boys on our earlier podcast Raising Boys and Girls Differently

For daily support from instructors, plus regular Q&A call-ins with them and our founder Patty Wipfler, join the Hand in Hand Parent Club - your rich, deep dive into Hand in Hand Parenting

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 those constant requests, desires, energy and power play is a lot!

This week Abigail and Elle weigh in on why parenting a strong-willed child can feel so demanding and draining, and how you can raise your strong-willed child without so many power struggles - or the need to "break them."

On this week's podcast, Parenting the Strong-Willed child:

• How an agenda won't help when you raise a strong-willed child
• How to harness your child's enthusiasm, desire and power
• Why these kids can also be super sensitive
• Learn how to dance between limits and freedom
• What to do if you disapprove of your child's nature and how to develop a mindset that helps improve things

Listen to Parenting The Strong-Willed Child now.

You might also like:

Setting limits with a strong-willed child can feel really hard - yet they do really need those limits. This article shows how you can hold a limit with a child without breaking them - and comes with a free checklist.

If parenting feels too hard you might find yourself yelling. Here's 15 ways you can stop shouting at your kids

For daily support from instructors, plus regular Q&A call-ins with them and our founder Patty Wipfler, try the Parent Club free for 30 days.

stay connected

We’d love to hear about your parenting challenges. You can follow Hand in Hand on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Be sure to drop Elle and Abigail a message at podcast@handinhandparenting.org

Get weekly tips, ideas, and inspiration for your parenting in our Newsletter

Did you ever think you got this parenting thing figured out only to find your child brings home some new parenting challenge?

• Maybe they start shouting potty words at you, seemingly from nowhere?
• Maybe they start throwing punches when normally they'd been fairly calm?
• Or maybe things simple things that you ask them do suddenly brings on meltdowns, where before they'd do it without a struggle?

Where did the child you thought you knew so well go to?

In the quest to find solutions to this sudden new and disagreeable behavior, you head to friends to compare notes, you hit Google for answers, or you even seek the services of a professional.

After all, you want those words to stop, that aggression to fade, that resistance to disappear.

But what if you started with "Why?"

Why is your child so fascinated with hurtful words right now? Why does he or she have so much tension the only thing that angry words or angry actions seem to have become a default reaction? Why is having to hang a schoolbag so difficult now when just a few months ago it was a no-brainer?

Why?

This week Abigail and Elle respond to a mom who found surprising answers when she stopped asking her four-year-old to quit yelling and instead asked herself why the yelling was happening at all.

We highlight the gorgeous ways this mom used the Hand in Hand Parenting tools to delve deeper, and the beautiful way her daughter opened up and let her mom support her through what turned out to be some very difficult moments in her school life.

Listen to "Why?" is Your Most Important Question When Kids' Behavior Gets Hard and learn how to ask why effectively when you want to bring change.

For daily support from instructors, plus regular Q&A call-ins with them and our founder Patty Wipfler, try the Parent Club free for 30 days.

stay connected

We’d love to hear about your parenting challenges. You can follow Hand in Hand on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Be sure to drop Elle and Abigail a message at podcast@handinhandparenting.org

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• Don’t forget to subscribe!

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Three little words with such immense power. Following on from last week's podcast on children with anger, this week Elle and Abigail suss out why it feels so bad to hear "I hate you," and the many ways you can respond.

Elle talks about the different reasons she hears "I hate you," both in anger and as connection bids, and Abigail shares why she thinks they hardly ever hear "I hate you," in her house.

We also talk about times we can respond playfully, and times we can set limits on hearing those words, and times when "I hate you," is not aimed at you but is instead thrust at a sibling.

If you've felt threatened, upset or confused about the times your child has said "I hate you," you'll want to listen into this episode.

More Resources for When Your Child Says "I Hate You."

Both these articles share where bad words come from and how to manage them in your house: Bad Words from Good Kids and When Kids Words Hurt 

And we love how Hand in Hand Instructor Irina thinks and responds when her child calls her mean mom.

Contact Abigail Wald about her upcoming 5-Month Transformation session

keep connected

We’d love to hear about your parenting challenges. You can follow Hand in Hand on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Be sure to drop Elle and Abigail a message at podcast@handinhandparenting.org

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• Don’t forget to subscribe!

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This week Abigail and Elle respond to a mom who is Staylistening to her child, but never sees tears. Worse, it seems to her that the more she leans in to listen to her child's feelings, the more her child gets angry, starts scowling and tries running away. How can she listen to anger?

So, this week we're asking if Staylistening should always result in a cry, and if not, what can we do? Why we as parents find it so hard to listen to a child's anger, and how can we trust them to do as they need with their feelings.

Join us this week if you've ever felt like you've "failed" at Staylistening, or it doesn't look in your house how you expected or thought it would - we have soothing news for you. 

Get More Resources for Parenting an Angry Child

Sometimes all an angry child needs if for you to listen. Read Getting from Angry to Happy in 20 Minutes or Less

Listen to this next - we talk more about Staylistening in this podcast: When Staylistening Doesn't Go As Planned

Get the e-book Reaching For Your Angry Child

Here's a free cheatsheet about everything we covered today around Staylistening. You can download it here.

Get community, get support, get listening partnerships, everyday – in The Parent Club. Try it free for 30 days.

keep connected

We’d love to hear about your parenting challenges. You can follow Hand in Hand on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Be sure to drop Elle and Abigail a message at podcast@handinhandparenting.org

• Listen on iTunes.
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• Don’t forget to subscribe!

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This week Elle and Abigail finally meet face-to-face! No wonder they felt inspired to make this podcast.

"It takes a village," so the old proverb says, and anyone who tunes into our podcast for parents often knows that this is all too true. In fact, it's the reason we made the podcast - to share a weekly space for parents so you don't feel alone.

And, as we meet this first time, we also realise the value in coming together week after week to share, to listen and laugh, to comfort and cry as we make the episodes.

More Resources About Building A Parenting Village

There are so many ways to reach out and get the support you need within Hand in Hand Parenting. If you haven't already, join one of our facebook groups: Parent Support Group or if your child is 10 and over Parenting By Connection for Older Children.

If you have read our book Listen and want to connect with other like-minded parents, consider a Listen Book Club.

For daily support from instructors, plus regular Q&A call-ins with them and our founder Patty Wipfler, try the Parent Club free for 30 days.

For a deep dive into the tools, and an introduction to Listening Partnerships, with small groups of parents, take our 6-week Starter Class. And you can find all of our talks and classes here.

Stay Connected

We’d love to hear about your parenting challenges. You can follow Hand in Hand on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Be sure to drop Elle and Abigail a message at podcast@handinhandparenting.org

• Listen on iTunes.
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