LIVE Q&A // Why connection trumps correction w/ kids hitting, won't listen, go to school, sit for dinner, play nice

Upbringing

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:

- Kid stonewalling + gaslighting parent
- Toddler ignoring requests + expectations
- Kid refusing to go to school
- Kid won't sit for dinner, "hands out NO like candy"
- Kid throws food at sitter, struggles w/ online school
- 5 yo hits himself when parent says to stop doing something
- 5 yo steals + runs away with things he shouldn't have
- 5 yo intentionally hurts baby sibling
- 6 yo tackling younger sib, not respecting "no"
- Spirited kid demanding things rudely
- Kid throws tantrum when parent leaves for work
- Kid refuses to walk into their classroom
- Kid hitting + kicking dog
- Kid verbally abusing sib for no apparent reason

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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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.