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How To Get Creative With Your Homeschooling Schedule

Empowered Homeschooling - October 13, 2020 08:00 - 12 minutes
In this episode we share 5 tips to help you thing out side the box and get creative with your homeschooling schedule! we talk about: -utilizing the season to your advantage -weekend schooling -finding flexibility in your schedule -Schooling year round & -Saving a subject for summer

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How To Get Creative With Curriculum

Empowered Homeschooling - September 29, 2020 14:35 - 23 minutes
In this Episode we talk about how to get creative with your curriculum and put it in its place as a tool in your homeschool experience! Remember, you are in charge and in the driver seat not the curriculum's syllabus! We'll talk about 10 ways to start thinking out side the box so you can start ...

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How To Become a Relaxed Homeschooling Mom

Empowered Homeschooling - September 22, 2020 08:00 - 21 minutes
In this Episode we talk about how to become a more relaxed homeschooling mom. We talk about how to combat those negative voices telling you to do more and stress more!

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When Homeschooling is Discouraging Instead of Empowering

Empowered Homeschooling - September 08, 2020 08:00 - 25 minutes
In this episode we tall about ways we get discouraged as homeschooling parents. And how we can combat those hard days so they are few and far between.

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Creating Space for Connection While Homeschooling

Empowered Homeschooling - September 01, 2020 08:00 - 16 minutes
In this episode we talk about creating space for connection while homeschooling, why this is important, and 10 ways you can create space for connection and enjoy this time with your kids!

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How To Set Up Your Home To Support Your Homeschool

Empowered Homeschooling - August 25, 2020 08:00 - 34 minutes
In this episode we talk about how to set up your daily rhythms, chores, household to do's, and self care in a way that supports your homeschool and doesn't steal all your energy! We talk about decluttering, simplifying, empowering, and getting your kids on board to help! 

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The First Weeks Of School

Empowered Homeschooling - August 18, 2020 18:10 - 8 minutes
Bonus Episode! In this episode we talk about allowing flexibility to lead these first few weeks of school. Allowing yourself room to make changes and adjust where needed so your homeschool schedule works for you and not against you!

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How To Set Your Homeschool Up For Success - Part 2

Empowered Homeschooling - August 11, 2020 08:00 - 47 minutes
In this episode we talk about how to set your homeschool space as well as your homeschool year up for success. we talk about setting the intent and asking your self questions to help you make empowered choices for your homeschooling journey.

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How To Set Your Homeschool Up For Success - Part 1

Empowered Homeschooling - August 04, 2020 08:00 - 32 minutes
In this weeks episode we are talking about the mindset behind how to set up your homeschool for success. We talk about having a tribe and gaining inspiration to having weekly check in meetings with your family. Oh, and also making sure you are adding fun into the mix!

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Picking or Pivoting Curriculum

Empowered Homeschooling - July 28, 2020 08:00 - 16 minutes
In this episode we talk about how to be empowered to better pick homeschooling curriculum, and knowing when to pivot or ditch a curriculum all together.

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Knowing Your "Why"

Empowered Homeschooling - July 21, 2020 08:00 - 20 minutes
Knowing your "why" (also known as your 'Homeschooling Why', your 'Homeschool Mission Statement', or your 'Homeschooling Purpose') is key to unlocking an empowered homeschool experience! In this episode we will talk about why this is so important, what it can look like when it's not clear, and ho...

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Empowered Homeschooling

Empowered Homeschooling - July 14, 2020 16:00 - 11 minutes
I help empower homeschooling families take control of their homeschooling journey & find peace in the process. Taking you from stress, chaos, & overwhelm to calm, confident, & connected.

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What's Next? How About a Mind Flip

Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast - November 07, 2019 19:04 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 288 ratings
Now that the Hand in Hand podcast is on hiatus, are you wondering where to get parenting support direct to your eats? You're invited to join Abigail during the hiatus for her Mother Flipping Awesome podcast where she does a deep dive with one mama in each show. And you get to listen in. #mindfl...

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Handling the Halloween Howls Using the Hand in Hand Tools

Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast - October 31, 2019 02:19 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 288 ratings
This week: Handling Halloween Using the Hand in Hand Tools So, your kids are fighting over the Halloween candy stash, and their sugar highs (and begging for more) send your blood pressure soaring. Maybe you have a child who is scarred by scare season's ghosts and ghouls - or simply refuses to ...

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You're Invited To The Celebration - 100th Episode Podcast Party Starring YOU

Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast - October 25, 2019 04:01 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 288 ratings
Happy 100! This week - for our 100th episode - we turned the microphone over to you all. And we are SO excited to share this episode. You'll hear just what led parents to the Hand in Hand podcast, the breathtaking transformations you have seen happen in your parenting, and the different wa...

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So, How Far Have You Come in Your Parenting?

Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast - October 16, 2019 03:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 288 ratings
Where were you two years ago in parenting? Sometimes we get so caught up in the present-day challenges we forget to look back and see the progress we've made.  And we should!  A week before the 100th episode of the Hand in Hand Parenting Podcast,  Elle and Abigail do just that, with an aff...

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The Best Ways to Rise Strong After Mom Shame

Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast - October 10, 2019 16:16 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 288 ratings
  Your heart sinks as you join the long line of people snaking the aisle at the grocery store. Your baby is already making those noises she makes when she wants you to hold her, and there are about 15 minutes until she needs feeding. You are pretty sure this line will take double that. ...

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What happens when you want to walk out on parenting?

Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast - October 01, 2019 15:37 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 288 ratings
So, today we’re talking about the less sunny side of parenting. And when we say less sunny, we really mean those dark, never-ending winter-like days that are bleak, lonely and cold. They hurt. Some of us live in denial of these days - and it’s easy to see why. In a world of social media wher...

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Powerful Ways To Banish Fear of the Dark (and other things that kids say go bump in the night)

Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast - September 24, 2019 05:40 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 288 ratings
Powerful ways To Solve Your child's sleep issues using the Hand in Hand Tools Your kid is going crazy about taking a bath. Just won't. You wrangle and wrestle. It's nearly bedtime after all. You are sooo close! Then when you finally make it to the bedroom, your child refuses to put on pyjamas...

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How to help Kids Manage Their Friendships

Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast - September 18, 2019 01:59 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 288 ratings
So there it is. An invitation. Your child is waving it in your face with a grin brighter than gold.   And you? Does your heart soar? Or sink? Acceptance Similarity Belonging Self-worth Influence Betrayal Here's Why OUR Friendships Matter Friendships can arouse big feelings - i...

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How to Keep Your Family Strong and Loving after Divorce

Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast - September 10, 2019 03:17 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 288 ratings
Coping with divorce? When today’s guest, instructor Kristen Zuzek Volk, found Hand in Hand, she’d almost written off a loving relationship with her daughter. After divorcing, her two kids were screaming, crying and acting out, her daughter sometimes for nine hours a day. Coping? Not reall...

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How to Handle Your Child's Negative Words

Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast - September 05, 2019 00:34 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 288 ratings
You probably never imagined words like these erupting from your child’s mouth.  Dark. Venomous.  Hurtful words.  But here they are.  “I hate you!” Or worse. “I hate myself.” “I want to die.” Words that make us want to curl up and cry. Admit defeat. Give up parenting altogether. Ex...

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Can Special Time Really Increase My Child’s Level of Cooperation? 

Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast - August 28, 2019 09:49 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 288 ratings
Want to increase your child's co-operation? Have them listen more? Reduce clinginess?  Sometimes special time can feel like the magic balm in parenting. It can: Boost your child’s confidence.  It can build their resilience.  It can ease your own parent guilt about not spending enough “qu...

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Do You Know the Best Way Out of Parent Anger?

Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast - August 21, 2019 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 288 ratings
What gets you super seething mama mad? Is it the constant asks and requests, the “Mom where’s my… that’s so overwhelming? Maybe it’s the piles of toys and dishes and chip packets you asked to be tidied but are still smirking at you from the living room? Maybe it’s the stubbornness and defi...

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How to Make Your Kids Love Chores (guest starring Abigail's son)

Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast - August 14, 2019 15:07 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 288 ratings
If you catch yourself late at night, surrounded by toys, folding clothes and wondering why you don't have time or energy to take a shower, ask yourself: Why am I doing all the chores? Where are my kids when I need them? And why aren't those helpful little mice from Cinderella a real thing? ...

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Parenting Sick Kids: How To Navigate Medicine, Worry and Stress

Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast - August 06, 2019 07:07 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 288 ratings
What's the one thing you want for your child when they are sick? To have them feel better. What's the one thing that most often gets in the way of that? When you walk away with a specialist appointment or wonkily-written script from Doc you have two things: A ticket better health for your c...

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How to Master Motherhood (and other parenting lies)

Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast - July 30, 2019 06:14 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 288 ratings
You probably got very excited when you discovered that Hand in Hand Parenting had five tools that could rescue you when parenting got sticky (or downright dirty). Very excited. It was the exact result you wanted Google to deliver.  It may even have been  how you found our podcast. You need...

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How To Get A Defiant Child Moving When You Have to Be Somewhere

Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast - July 23, 2019 14:47 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 288 ratings
You just dropped one child at his playdate. Now you have 15 minutes to scoot across to the pool for your younger kid's swim lesson. Easy, right? Actually no. Your child is refusing to scoot. He doesn't want to put on his swim clothes. He won't go to the pool. "I HATE swim class," he yells defiant...

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Yes! You Can Playlisten When your Child is Upset

Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast - July 17, 2019 00:33 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 288 ratings
Your child grabs the one extra cookie you said he wasn’t allowed… What do you do? Or your daughter whines the minute she sees you pull out peanut butter for her toast... Or, when your son hears that his sister is having a sleepover he yells that you’re a mean mom...and that you have wrinkl...

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How To Potty Train Your Child in 10 Easy Years

Hand in Hand Parenting: The Podcast - July 10, 2019 11:48 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 288 ratings
Since we have all personally gone through potty training and we will all have to go through it with our kids, you'd think we'd have nailed down one, surefire potty training method. But the 11,000 google results you get when you type in 'How to potty train my child,' clearly shows that a one-si...

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