Special Time: How 5 minutes can transform your day

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Tales From the Toolbox. Stories from Hand in Hand Parenting

Tales from the ToolBox Podcast

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Join the Tales from the Toolbox team, five Hand in Hand Parenting Instructors from around the world, as they share stories of how connection-based parenting can transform family life to be sweeter and stronger. These judgment-free and down-to-earth conversations will inspire and nourish you; full of laughter, learning and compassion, they get real about the ups and downs of family life. Parenting was never meant to be done alone; listen in to feel part of a worldwide community of parents who put connection at the core to build warm, trusting relationships where everyone can thrive.

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Special Time: How 5 minutes can transform your day

Tales From the Toolbox. Stories from Hand in Hand Parenting

38 minutes

3 years ago

Special Time: How 5 minutes can transform your day

In this episode join Lara, Stacy, Belynda and Alice for a joyful and jubilant conversation on the Hand in Hand Parenting tool of Special Time. We share our children’s love of this tool, how it is structured in our approach, and why it is so powerful for impacting the trajectory of the parent-child relationship.

You’ll hear more about

Why we often start with Special Time when we share these tools with families
What Special Time feels like - for you (hint - sometimes hard!) and your child
How the Hand in Hand model of Special Time works
How Special Time as a practice can have a powerful positive impact on sibling dynamics
How to trust our child to direct this time together, and what to do if they ask for screens, sweets or something unsafe.
Logistics - how long to do Special Time for, what to do when you have more than one child, what to call it
Why this connection vitamin is a powerful way to build cooperation (and will sometimes end in tears - and why that’s a great thing)
Tales of how we’ve use Special Time in our own families

Listen in if you want to learn about why Special Time is different to other forms of play, and how to make this tool a cornerstone of strong relationships in your family!

For some other resources on Special Time try these

A video with more information on Special Time - https://www.handinhandparenting.org/2020/03/special-time-live-with-patty/
Listen by Patty Wipfler and Tosha Schore is a great place to learn more about Special Time (and is also available as an audiobook) - https://www.handinhandparenting.org/listen-five-simple-tools/

You can continue the conversation with the toolbox team at talesfromthetoolbox@gmail.com

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Wishing you lots of connection and joy in your parenting.

Thanks for listening.

• You can connect with Belynda in Australia at belynda.smith@meerilinga.org.au

• You can connect with Alice in Shetland at alice@warmheartedparenting.com

• You can connect with Lara in London at lara@handinhandparenting.org

• You can connect with Stacy in California at growingoodness@gmail.com

• You can connect with Kelly in South Africa at kelly@consciousconfidentparenting.co.za