Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast

By Hand in Hand Parenting with Elle Kwan and Abigail Wald

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What's Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast about?

When children's behavior is difficult, parents need support, good information, and practical tools to reduce stress, understand their child's emotions, and build cooperation and warm connection in the family. Join Elle Kwan and Abigail Wald as they share the Hand in Hand Parenting approach with useful examples and stories from real parents like you.

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Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast episodes:

11.07.2019
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 does...
10.31.2019
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 child who is...
10.25.2019
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...
10.16.2019
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...
10.10.2019
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...
10.01.2019
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 denial of...
09.24.2019
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...
09.18.2019
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 OUR...
09.10.2019
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 acting out, her daughter sometimes for...
09.05.2019
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 to...
08.28.2019
Can Special Time Really Increase My Child’s Level of Cooperation?
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 resilience. It can ease your...
08.21.2019
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...
08.14.2019
How to Make Your Kids Love Chores (guest starring Abigail's son)
If you catch yourself late at night, surrounded by toys, folding clothes and wondering why you don't have time or energy to take a shower, ask yourself: Why am I doing all the chores? Where are my kids when...
08.06.2019
Parenting Sick Kids: How To Navigate Medicine, Worry and Stress
What's the one thing you want for your child when they are sick? To have them feel better. What's the one thing that most often gets in the way of that? When you walk away with a specialist...
07.30.2019
How to Master Motherhood (and other parenting lies)
You probably got very excited when you discovered that Hand in Hand Parenting had five tools that could rescue you when parenting got sticky (or downright dirty). Very excited. It was the exact result you wanted Google to deliver. It...
07.23.2019
How To Get A Defiant Child Moving When You Have to Be Somewhere
You just dropped one child at his playdate. Now you have 15 minutes to scoot across to the pool for your younger kid's swim lesson. Easy, right? Actually no. Your child is refusing to scoot. He doesn't want to put...
07.17.2019
Yes! You Can Playlisten When your Child is Upset
Your child grabs the one extra cookie you said he wasn’t allowed… What do you do? Or your daughter whines the minute she sees you pull out peanut butter for her toast... Or, when your son hears that his sister...
07.10.2019
How To Potty Train Your Child in 10 Easy Years
Since we have all personally gone through potty training and we will all have to go through it with our kids, you'd think we'd have nailed down one, surefire potty training method. But the 11,000 google results you get when...
07.03.2019
3 Smart, Sensitive Ways to Respond 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 stomach, and yet she shows no other symptoms of being unwell. You wonder…is...
06.26.2019
Why is my kid swearing?
Have you ever asked your child to do something simple, like pack their toys away before dinner? For a second they stare back and you wide-eyed, all chubby-cheeked cherubic sweetness. And then they scrunch those eyes and tell you to $#@...
06.20.2019
Try These Quick, Smart Tips to Conquer Your Parenting Overwhelm
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...
06.12.2019
Who Else is Watching Your Power Struggles?
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...
06.05.2019
How to Superboost your Parent Support Today
The baby woke at 4am. His brother just 45 minutes later. Since then you’ve been puked on, drawn on, and changed three diapers. You burnt a bagel and your kid tipped his cereal over in a rage. Now the...
05.28.2019
Do you know when your child needs you most of all?
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!...
05.22.2019
How to Respond to Your Kid's Mistakes in a Way You Can Be Proud Of
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...
05.16.2019
What to Do When Your Family Wants to Rule Your Parenting
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...
05.07.2019
3 Reasons We Parents Can Suck at Setting Limits
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...
05.01.2019
What To Do When You Aren't So Psyched to See Your Kids
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...
04.12.2019
Why Does my Child Only Listen When I Lose It?
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. ...
04.10.2019
Setting Limits: The Hard No
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...
04.03.2019
Help! My Kid Keeps Bragging
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. ...
03.26.2019
Finding Your Calm Place in Parenting (It Really Can Happen!)
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...
03.20.2019
Raising Resilient Girls...Part 2
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...
03.13.2019
Raising Resilient Girls - with Michael Gurian
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...
03.05.2019
Parenting a 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....
02.26.2019
The Most Important Question To Ask When Your Child's Behavior Gets Hard
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...
02.19.2019
Why is it so Hard to Hear your Child Say "I Hate You!"
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...
02.12.2019
Why is my Child So Angry?
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...
01.29.2019
Elle and Abigail Meet For the First Time and Talk About Why Parents Deserve a Village!
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...
01.28.2019
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 meals? Elle talks about her own process parenting her picky...
01.22.2019
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 march out the door, bursting with independence? Worries about tantrums and...
01.15.2019
Are You Headed for Parent Burnout?
Have you ever asked yourself where the fun parent went? The parent you that says yes to play-dough tea-parties, the parent you that says yes to piggy-back races and then suggests races to the dinner...
01.08.2019
Parenting in Public: How To Stick To Your Parenting Philosophy and Parent with Confidence When Others are Watching
Do you feel awkward or anxious about your parenting when others are around? Do you find yourself coming down more heavily on your kids when you are out in public? Or...
01.01.2019
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...
12.19.2018
Too Many Toys?!!
What goes hand in hand with holiday gifting? Toys and more toys. This week we’re asking how you feel about toys, what decisions you make around holiday request lists, and how you can keep them in check, plus why...
12.12.2018
My Child is Hitting: Parenting The Problem, Not the Punch
What should I do when my child hits? It's one of the most common questions we get at Hand in Hand Parenting, and it's the content of this week's podcast. And no wonder. Hitting can feel dangerous. Offensive. Confusing. But...
12.04.2018
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!...
11.27.2018
A Love Letter to Parents
If you were to see a job description for a role where non-stop, around-the-clock care was compulsory, and there was no training and no overtime, would you take it? Probably not! Yet, it's what we all sign up for...
11.13.2018
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...
11.06.2018
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...

What's Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast episodes:

What's Next? How About a Mind Flip

Handling the Halloween Howls Using the Hand in Hand Tools

You're Invited To The Celebration - 100th Episode Podcast Party Starring YOU

So, How Far Have You Come in Your Parenting?

The Best Ways to Rise Strong After Mom Shame

What happens when you want to walk out on parenting?

Powerful Ways To Banish Fear of the Dark (and other things that kids say go bump in the night)

How to help Kids Manage Their Friendships

How to Keep Your Family Strong and Loving after Divorce

How to Handle Your Child's Negative Words

Can Special Time Really Increase My Child’s Level of Cooperation?

Do You Know the Best Way Out of Parent Anger?

How to Make Your Kids Love Chores (guest starring Abigail's son)

Parenting Sick Kids: How To Navigate Medicine, Worry and Stress

How to Master Motherhood (and other parenting lies)

How To Get A Defiant Child Moving When You Have to Be Somewhere

Yes! You Can Playlisten When your Child is Upset

How To Potty Train Your Child in 10 Easy Years

3 Smart, Sensitive Ways to Respond to Your Child's Anxiety

Why is my kid swearing?

Try These Quick, Smart Tips to Conquer Your Parenting Overwhelm

Who Else is Watching Your Power Struggles?

How to Superboost your Parent Support Today

Do you know when your child needs you most of all?

How to Respond to Your Kid's Mistakes in a Way You Can Be Proud Of

What to Do When Your Family Wants to Rule Your Parenting

3 Reasons We Parents Can Suck at Setting Limits

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

Why Does my Child Only Listen When I Lose It?

Setting Limits: The Hard No

Help! My Kid Keeps Bragging

Finding Your Calm Place in Parenting (It Really Can Happen!)

Raising Resilient Girls...Part 2

Raising Resilient Girls - with Michael Gurian

Parenting a Strong-Willed Child

The Most Important Question To Ask When Your Child's Behavior Gets Hard

Why is it so Hard to Hear your Child Say "I Hate You!"

Why is my Child So Angry?

Elle and Abigail Meet For the First Time and Talk About Why Parents Deserve a Village!

How to Get a Child to Eat When They Refuse

Parenting Tweens: Staying Close As Your Child Gets Older

Are You Headed for Parent Burnout?

Parenting in Public: How To Stick To Your Parenting Philosophy and Parent with Confidence When Others are Watching

Why Your Best New Year's Resolution Could Be "No Resolutions"...

Too Many Toys?!!

My Child is Hitting: Parenting The Problem, Not the Punch

Your Blueprint for Building Better Habits and Good Behavior

A Love Letter to Parents

A Surprisingly Simple Tool You Can Use to Deal With Difficult Family Members

Reframing Your Past Could Be The Key To More Confident and Content Parenting