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How Staylistening at the End of a Beautiful Weekend Let My Son Say Goodbye...
We went away camping with four other families. Between us we had eleven kids between the ages of 1 and 7. The weather was beautiful. We cooked over a wood fire and the kids hung out playing well and...
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Helping My Teenage Son Work Through Stifled Feelings with Listening
My 13-year-old son was off track in a way that doesn’t happen often. I asked him to turn off the TV in order to shift to bedtime mode at 9pm on a Sunday, and he resisted. It led us to a talk about...
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Solutions for My Son’s Homework Tantrums
After the start of the second grade, I very quickly noticed some heavy struggles around homework come up. At the start of the year, my son’s second grade teacher gave all the parents special...
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The Consequences of Connection
Dear Hand in Hand Parenting, This morning there was an incident with my 10-year-old son. He has a list of things that he is supposed to do in the mornings—guitar practice, making bed, square up room,...
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Play Helps Dissolve Frustration
Before bed, my daughter and I had a fun Special Time together doing whatever she wanted. When the timer beeped (signaling the end of Special Time) she happily trotted off to her room to change into her...
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Helping My Child with Keeping Agreements
(C) 2007 Richard Dudley One morning I told my daughter (7.5) it was time to clean her room before watching TV. “Oh mom,” she said. “You know I need time to wake up and just want to relax and watch a...
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How a Single Hour Can Solve Parenting Problems
“Although the Hand in Hand resources (booklets, podcasts, and videos) that I had already used had been so helpful to me and my husband, we still had so many questions. Having contact with a real human...
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Helping My Son Sleep Through The Night
My nine year old son usually falls right asleep at night. This has been such a blessing for me and quite contrary to his younger sister who likes to stay up late. On one particular night he was...
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Stopping Sibling Rivalry Through Playfulness
As most siblings do, my nine year old son and six year old daughter pester one another sometimes. One day they were lying on the living room floor about an arm’s length away from one other. My son...
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Setting Limits Helped My Daughter Cooperate Willingly
My six year old daughter seemed fine when she came home from school. Her nine year old brother had been sick for three days and I was looking forward to her being with us. However, it wasn’t long...
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