Welcome back to our LIVE Q&A SERIES on the podcast through the rest of the year, using the audio from our weekly Instagram LIVE videos. A few of the topics we cover this episode:

- Parent struggling giving consequences
- Kid spitting randomly all the time
- Boundaries vs consequences
- Should we mirror our kids' faces when they're upset?
- 3yo pushing 2yo sibling all the time
- Upset 5yo only grunts + won't talk
- Kids who "should know better"
- Spirited kid upset by blocks
- Kid ignoring parent, even when given consequences
- 9yo + 5yo still needing parent to sleep with them
- Kid asking "Are you sad, Mommy?" when ruffled
- Co-parent who doesn't parent consciously
- Parent worried about being a push over
- Husband thinks kid needs more punishment
- 5yo trying to bite parent

Tune in and connect on our LIVE Q&As, every Tuesday AND Thursday at 5PM PST on Instagram. Catch up on past LIVE session on our IGTV tab. As always, we laugh, we cry, we lean in… join us!

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- Our RESIST Approach
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- Our Resources Page
- Our Coaching page
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- Mary Schroeder, Upbringing’s Letterer
- Alex Olavarria, our producer, musician, editor + husband/brother in law

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Join us to explore topics such as: parenting, motherhood, discipline, resistance, RIE parenting, feminist parenting, toddlers, tantrums, potty training, mindful parenting, conscious parenting, evidence-based parenting, positive parenting, respectful parenting, simplicity parenting and positive discipline.

Disclaimer: Hannah & Kelty are parenting coaches and do not work in a professional therapist’s or MD capacity to diagnose or treat mental health disorders. They cannot advise parents on issues such as drug addiction, eating disorders, self-harm, severe psychiatric disorders, child abuse, assault, etc.