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:

- 2.5 yo hitting + kicking dog
- Parent struggling with reactivity
- Kid saying violent things like “I want to cut your face”
- Kid hitting + seeking sensory stimulation
- "Naughty" kid + how to support/stop labeling
- How can we reconnect after a blow up with our kids?
- Will reconnecting/apologizing lose its meaning over time?
- My partner needs “proof” that respectful parenting works
- 4 yo blames 1yo for making mess when they didn’t
- Kid won’t follow rules or stay off Youtube during school
- Parent says “can I tell you” and kid says “no”
- 6 yo constantly “acting out”
- 2 yo won’t ever help clean up
- 2.5 yo screaming and non-verbal

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 Freedoms Model
- Our RESIST Approach
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- Our Resources Page
- Our Coaching page
- Amber Okamura, Upbringing’s Artist
- 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.