Upbringing

Reminder! >> SPIRITED KIDS CLUB SMALL GROUP COACHING ENROLLMENT IS OPEN FOR AUGUST!

A few topics we covered in this Q&A:

- Parent worried about their kid who has lots some of his “spiritedness”

- Implicit vs explicit learning

- When to push and encourage vs accept where kids are at?

- Kids jumping on all the things

- The downside to praising our kids

- 3.5 yo refusing important medicine

- 4.5 yo spirited kid needs sensory box?!

- 4yo hitting and angry with 10mo sib

- 2yo throwing everything at parents

- Kid won’t say please and thank yous

- Intense + social 3.5yo gets upset when peers don’t reciprocate

- 4.5yo makes super loud noises at meal time

- How to support kids in saying “I was wrong”, “I don’t know”, “I need help” and “I’m sorry”

- Bedtime struggles w/ 2.5 + 5.5 yo

- Is it ok to show all emotions in front of kids? Or are there age appropriate emotions?

- Circle backs and apologizing to kids

Tune in and connect on our LIVE Q&As, every 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!

Relevant Links:

- Our Freedoms Model
- Our RESIST Approach
- Our Shop - GUIDES + PRINTS!
- 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

Contact us! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.

Email us: [email protected]
Follow Upbringing on Instagram: @upbringing.co

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.

>> SPIRITED KIDS CLUB SMALL GROUP COACHING ENROLLMENT IS OPEN FOR AUGUST!

- Kids’ personality types - worth analysis through the enneagram or Gretchen Rubin’s 4 tendencies?

- 4yo too rough with little sib, constantly picking up 

- Teaching kids “consent”, modeling consent + boundary-setting, circling back when consent is broken

- Inhibiting kids’ physical impulses like hitting, touching things they shouldn’t, etc 

- Kid resisting medical necessary procedures

- How kids’ bodies/nervous systems store trauma and how to help purge and process it

- Why conventional discipline is physically, mentally and emotionally unhealthy for kids

- How kids (and adults!) learn best - connection vs correction

- 6yo and husband have physical conflict - how to support their relationship?

- How parents can work on their triggers + beliefs

- The book How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t with Your Kids: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Calmer, Happier Parent

- Upbringing Podcast: Caregiver Clashes  - Upbringing podcast: My Partner Doesn't Discipline Respectfully

- Positive words/phrases for during conflict to de-escalate the situation - YES or OK

- 2.5 yo throwing sharp toys when dysregulated + parent removed them all, kid mad

- When kids attack us - what's a "natural consequence"?

- When to use the RESIST Approach

- Sibs fighting - parent creates space/safety but they won't stop!

- Our own self-reg and "forcefield" that helps us support our kids in conflict

- How to not pass co-dependency onto our kids?

- To incredible power of exploring + expressing NEEDS + BOUNDARIES

Tune in and connect on our LIVE Q&As, every 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!

Relevant Links:

- Our Freedoms Model
- Our RESIST Approach
- Our Shop - GUIDES + PRINTS!
- 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

Contact us! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.

Email us: [email protected]
Follow Upbringing on Instagram: @upbringing.co

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.

Our Right From The Start online course is almost closed for enrollment!

We loved sitting down with Paula of The Way We Parent Podcast and New Paradigm Motherhood Instagram Account to and connect about ways we can support our older kids as we add a new baby to the family! Click here if you'd prefer to watch the interview!

Our Right From The Start video course and community will bring you both the reassurance AND information you need in your baby’s first year to make the decisions that are uniquely right for your family. ✨ No prescribed rules, no perfection to attain… Just the essentials to help you move forward with clarity and confidence.

In nine modules over eight weeks, Right from the Start will help you to:

✔️ Understand what scientific research says about baby’s sleep, attachment, feeding, play and other essential topics

✔️ Know that you’re doing the best you can for your baby’s development

✔️ Find your sense of yourself again (or maintain it if you’re not yet a parent!)

✔️ Let go of the overwhelm and worry that there isn’t enough of you to go around

✔️ Get clear on how to parent your baby with alignment of your greater values

✔️ Find support and strength in a community of like-minded parents and parents-to-be

Not just focused on quick fixes for daily challenges, this course will help you lay the critical groundwork for a lifelong relationship with your child based in trust, collaboration and respect. ✨

If you’re expecting or are the parent of a child under 1, the Right from the Start course is for you.

Click HERE to learn more…
✨ DOORS CLOSE WEDNESDAY JUNE 30TH! Sliding scale pricing is available, and no-one is turned away for lack of funds. 🌈

Tune in and connect on our LIVE Q&As, every 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!

Relevant Links:

- Our Freedoms Model
- Our RESIST Approach
- Our Shop - GUIDES + PRINTS!
- 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

Contact us! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.

Email us: [email protected]
Follow Upbringing on Instagram: @upbringing.co

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.

>> SPIRITED KIDS CLUB ENROLLMENT IS OPEN FOR JULY AND AUGUST!

>> RIGHT FROM THE START BABY COURSE IS OPEN TIL WEDNESDAY JUNE 30TH!

- Kelty's nightmare bedtime and how Anne of Green Gables saved it

- Anne Shirley of Anne of Green Gables - Kevin Sullivan Movies

- Jo March of Little Women - quote: "There are some natures too noble to curb, too lofty to bend"

- The post Kelty referred to from her trip with her 10 mo daughter

- Kid too sensitive for "Circle Back" convos

- Spirited 3.5 yo apologizing... too much?

- Why apologies are just the beginning of building context and learning

- How to translate our kids' apologies, anger statement or anything

- Why we don't want our kids to feel they have disappointed us

- 4 yo tantrums, ripping things

- The anxiety of not knowing what causes our kids' behavior/feelings

- Calming a tantrum from beginning to end

- Becoming your own heroine as you write your narrative

Tune in and connect on our LIVE Q&As, every 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!

Relevant Links:

- Our Freedoms Model
- Our RESIST Approach
- Our Shop - GUIDES + PRINTS!
- 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

Contact us! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.

Email us: [email protected]
Follow Upbringing on Instagram: @upbringing.co

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.

Our Right From The Start online course doors open TODAY!

We loved sitting down with Jen Lumanlan of Your Parenting Mojo and chatting all things babies and new parenthood, whether it’s your first or fifth child!

Our Right From The Start video course and community will bring you both the reassurance AND information you need in your baby’s first year to make the decisions that are uniquely right for your family. ✨ No prescribed rules, no perfection to attain… Just the essentials to help you move forward with clarity and confidence.

In nine modules over eight weeks, Right from the Start will help you to:

✔️ Understand what scientific research says about baby’s sleep, attachment, feeding, play and other essential topics

✔️ Know that you’re doing the best you can for your baby’s development

✔️ Find your sense of yourself again (or maintain it if you’re not yet a parent!)

✔️ Let go of the overwhelm and worry that there isn’t enough of you to go around

✔️ Get clear on how to parent your baby with alignment of your greater values

✔️ Find support and strength in a community of like-minded parents and parents-to-be 

Not just focused on quick fixes for daily challenges, this course will help you lay the critical groundwork for a lifelong relationship with your child based in trust, collaboration and respect. ✨ 

If you’re expecting or are the parent of a child under 1, the Right from the Start course is for you.

Click HERE to learn more…
✨ DOORS CLOSE WEDNESDAY JUNE 30TH! Sliding scale pricing is available, and no-one is turned away for lack of funds. 🌈

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!

Relevant Links:

- Our Freedoms Model
- Our RESIST Approach
- Our Shop - GUIDES + PRINTS!
- 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

Contact us! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.

Email us: [email protected]
Follow Upbringing on Instagram: @upbringing.co

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.

Welcome back to our LIVE Q&A SERIES on the podcast where we use the audio from our weekly Instagram LIVE videos. A few of the topics we cover this episode:

- SPIRITED KIDS CLUB - 3 SPOTS LEFT IN JULY!

- Parent struggling with time-outs and consequences

- Kid won't go outside, struggling with transitions leaving the house

- The incredible power of the "Circling Back" -- with your kids OR with family who judge your more gentle parenting approach in conflict

- Creating agreements to support transitions

- Parent feeling "held hostage" by child

- Reduce demands to reduce pressure to increase collaboration

- Parent relying on time-outs and counting down

- Kid sense agenda and pushes back

- Why challenges can become investments

- Internal VS external motivation for kids

- How to break a script you HATE saying

- When family members "discipline" their kids oppressively

- The problem with the word "BUT" with kids as "reality police"

- Kid won't leave play to go shopping

- Why NEEDS are the name of the game

- How to model innovation + problem solving

- Creating transitional anchor-points

- Parent feeling that they're rushing their kids through things

- Kid biting hand and suffering alone when upset

- Kids + self-harm

- Parents remembering ways they vented frustration

- Coping mechanisms vs coping strategies

- RESIST Approach with partners

- 5 yo threatening parents, house, space

- What "de-escalation" looks and sounds like

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!

Relevant Links:

- Our Freedoms Model
- Our RESIST Approach
- Our Shop - GUIDES + PRINTS!
- 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

Contact us! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.

Email us: [email protected]
Follow Upbringing on Instagram: @upbringing.co

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.

Welcome back to our LIVE Q&A SERIES on the podcast where we use the audio from our weekly Instagram LIVE videos. A few of the topics we cover this episode:

- Unconscious beliefs that limit our ability to support our kids

- Kid saying their parent "sucks balls" when they don't get their way

- 5 and 6yo constantly bickering + fighting

- Our job in the moment with sibling fights

- Spirited kids vs sensitive kids

- Exploring ways our feelings were or weren't supported as kids

- 2yo resisting, hitting, tantrums after going back to school

- Parent struggling with giving consequences and threats

- 3 yo resisting new summer camp drop offs, having anxiety about separation

- How to model boundary-setting when we need space

- 3yo resisting changing clothes when they have an “accident”

- Kid wetting pants on purpose since new baby sib came home

Tune in and connect on our LIVE Q&As, every 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!

Relevant Links:

- Our Freedoms Model
- Our RESIST Approach
- Our Shop - GUIDES + PRINTS!
- 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

Contact us! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.

Email us: [email protected]
Follow Upbringing on Instagram: @upbringing.co

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.

Thanks for such a great LIVE Q&A!

Grab a spot in our Spirited Kids Club for the month of JULY!

BOOK 4 SMALL GROUP COACHING CALLS NOW >>

Join the club for a weekly conversation with us (and seven other parents of spirited kids!) to realign your personal values with your daily parenting practices when it comes to supporting your kid’s big feelings + challenging behaviors.

INCLUDES:

- 4 coaching sessions with Hannah & Kelty

- 90 minutes per weekly session (recording emailed)

- 7 parents to commiserate + connect with LIVE

LEARN MORE!

A few topics we covered this LIVE Q&A:

- 2yo refusing all diaper changes + wearing a diaper

- 3yo keeps jumping on the couch + HUGE meltdowns

- Kids playing "police" and "jail" - scary imaginative play

- Kid refuses to sit at dining table w/out TV or treats

- The division of responsibility for eating by Ellyn Satter

- A Parent's Guide To Intuitive Eating Book

- Kids apologizing - HOW?!

- Tuesdays on Clubhouse - coming soon!

Tune in and connect on our LIVE Q&As, every 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!

Relevant Links:

- Our Freedoms Model
- Our RESIST Approach
- Our Shop - GUIDES + PRINTS!
- 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

Contact us! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.

Email us: [email protected]
Follow Upbringing on Instagram: @upbringing.co

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.

Thanks for such a great LIVE Q&A!

Last chance to join our Spirited Kids Club for the month of JUNE!

BOOK 4 SMALL GROUP COACHING CALLS NOW >>

Join the club for a weekly conversation with us (and seven other parents of spirited kids!) to realign your personal values with your daily parenting practices when it comes to supporting your kid’s big feelings + challenging behaviors.

INCLUDES:

- 4 coaching sessions with Hannah & Kelty

- 90 minutes per weekly session (recording emailed)

- 7 parents to commiserate + connect with LIVE

LEARN MORE!

A few topics we covered in this Q&A:

- Toddler meltdowns when new baby arrived
- 7yo outbursts hard for teachers to support
- Spirited sisters constantly fighting
- How to break the script and collaborate improvisationally with your kids
- 3.5 to sassiness feels disrespectful 
- 2.5 / 5 yo physically harming each other
- 3 yo feels left out with 5 yo sibling and friend 
- 3 yo afraid of Great-Grandpa and parent doesn’t know how to set boundaries + support
- Parent struggling to reconcile toddler’s daycare that doesn’t align with her values
- 3 yo separation anxiety before / at drop-off
- 3 yo is the “fun police” at parties 
- 5 yo is hyper and intense with visitors 

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!

Relevant Links:

- Our Freedoms Model
- Our RESIST Approach
- Our Shop - GUIDES + PRINTS!
- 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

Contact us! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.

Email us: [email protected]
Follow Upbringing on Instagram: @upbringing.co

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.

Welcome back to our LIVE Q&A SERIES on the podcast where we use the audio from our weekly Instagram LIVE videos.

A few of the topics we cover this episode:

- 4yo won't leave places without being carried
- Loving follow-through feels like a failure or a punishment
- 4yo full-time resistance and parent guilt
- Parent feels hijacked by their nervous system
- 9mo spirited baby: development, temperament or circumstance?
- 1 and 3yo hitting, biting and scratching parents + others
- 7yo unkind to friends + parent tries not to lecture
- 4yo hoards shared toys
- 3yo meltdown worsens with empathy from parents
- Parent struggles with constant tantrums + whining
- 4yo hyper and won't listen at parties
- 5yo still thumb sucking to sleep
- 4yo pushes limits when given agency from parent
- 3.5yo gives up easily and won't try hard things
- 4yo sensory issues with clothing and am transition

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!

Relevant Links:

- Our Freedoms Model
- Our RESIST Approach
- Our Shop - GUIDES + PRINTS!
- 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

Contact us! We want to hear your thoughts. We care deeply about what you think and how you’re doin’, so get in touch -- we’re better together.

Email us: [email protected]
Follow Upbringing on Instagram: @upbringing.co

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.