LIVE Q&A // Strong-willed, sensory-seeking kids, toddlers hitting new babies, won’t nap, eat, bathe

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:

- When our partners don’t adopt respectful parenting
- Hitting!
- When kids won’t sit down to eat
- Feeling stuck + resentful w/ 4 & 2 year olds
- When kids prefer one parent
- When kids “defy” + won’t eat or clean themselves
- Kid asks why parents “order him around and treat him like a robot”
- Kid won’t stay in their room for nap / rest time
- 6&5 year olds arguing when alone
- Kids reject the “circle back” with “blah blah” and ear plugging
- How to keep cool with multiple kids screaming
- Kid “not considerate of feelings”
- How to model + set boundaries w/ diff kids?
- Toddler hitting new baby sibling

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
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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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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.