Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast

If you've ever felt put on the spot and not wanting to answer your child's questions, join Abigail and Elle for an honest discussion on why, ultimately, it pays to answer kids questions honestly whenever possible - and how to do this in a way that will actually bring you and your children closer!

Join us for a Back to School Connection Plan We hear a lot about how difficult life is for our children going back to school, but what we hear about less is how difficult it can be for parents too! Listen in as we share a four-point plan for getting back to school feeling less stressed and with fewer battles!

A lot of parents ask us about our tool for parents, the Listening Partnership, about how they should run and what they should sound like, so this week on the podcast Elle and Abigail give a demonstration.

What to do when your kids won’t share, how to handle aggressive behaviors, and ways to prevent sibling rivalry before it even starts in this episode hosted by Evie Granville with Hand in Hand Parenting's Abigail Wald and Elle Kwan. Listen in to lots of anecdotes and real-life situations about brothers and sisters, battles and squabbles, love and connection in this episode!

Imagine this. Your kids are on a playdate. Everything is fine. There's a few giggles. Some stomping. The next minute? The kids are laughing manically, and the house is so trashed it looks like it has seconds until it falls down around you. The kids have gone wild. What do you do? This episode on the Hand in Hand Parenting Podcast we're talking about those moments kids seem to lose all control.

Join Abigail and Elle this week as they talk about addressing feelings of stress and failure in parenting, and how you can work past them. There's even a song about those horrible, no good, very bad days from Abigail!

This week we're looking at the times a children's behavior becomes rigid and what's at the root of a child's "perfectionism."

Your partner has no time for listening to a child cry. Your friends don't understand why you'd want to devote time to Special Time. Your parents have no idea why you want to understand what's behind your children's whining when you could issue a timeout and send them to their room. And that's when parenting can feel pretty lonely. On this week's episode, Abigail and Elle discuss those times and the practical tools you can use to overcome parenting loneliness.

We parents often find ourselves becoming "limit agents" - we take the limit's side to ensure whatever we want to see gets done, get's done. What's the problem with that? Immediately, we're in conflict with our child, and that is not a climate that sets a child up to win. It's not a climate that lets them succeed at the limit. Join us this week as Abigail reveals a new approach to limits that does set a child up to succeed in getting things done. Together.

Packing Schedules Meltdowns New foods, new people, new places, new things Traveling with kids brings a whole suitcase full of the unexpected! This week on the podcast Elle and Abigail talk about practical tools and strategies you can use with your kids before going away and while you are on the road.

This week, Elle and Abigail tell stories about the gaps they found in their parenting patterns and habits and they show you how you can pinpoint what you didn't get in your childhood and how to change it. Because if there's one thing we do know, once you parent the way want, intentionally, you imprint a whole new set of skills to your children to use in life and as parents. 

Has anyone ever told you what an angel your child was? A school teacher, a parent after a playdate? And you thought? Huh??? An angel? Certainly not at home! Abigail and Elle talk about why kids save their big feelings and "bad behaviors" for home, and how hard it can be to see all these behaviors when no-one else does. Plus they reveal secrets to turning things around.

If you have ever wondered: How much attention is too much attention? How to help my child become more confident and resilient How to balance out my time and emotions in parenting or just screamed (silently or otherwise) "I can't give anymore!" Join Abigail and Elle this week for some lively banter and good solutions for attention-seeking, leaky cup kids and their families.

This week Elle and Abigail tackle tickling - from being conscious of boundaries in the #metoo era to fun alternatives for connecting through laughter

All over the world boys in schools are failing and girls are succeeding, why? Today Elle and Abigail talk to New York Times bestselling author, neuro-biologist and family counselor Michael Gurian about boys, girls and their differences, and raising boys and girls so each thrives.