Welcome to the Your Village podcast, Parenting Beyond Discipline.

Your Village is the most comprehensive site for evidence-based parenting classes available on demand.

At Your Village online.com.

Our 50 plus classes give parents the foundation, steps, and tools for creating strong,

healthy relationships with their children, resulting in responsible, cooperative, happy,

and successful children and families.

My goal is to help parents support their children in finding and reaching their own unique

potential.

The podcast is a place to learn about all things parenting

and get your questions answered. I'm your village founder and your host, Erin Royer.

Today I'm back with some parenting questions. I have quite a few to catch up on, so I'll

continue to answer the parenting questions in the next several episodes.

And then in a couple of weeks, I will cover the very interesting topic of birth order.

What common traits are of each birth order, only children, oldest children, middle, last, and multiples.

What factors affect the degree to which a child may or may not exhibit the common traits of their birth order,

along with some things parents may want to think about when parenting each child as it relates to his or her birth order?

Personally, I think it's very fascinating stuff.

But our first question today is from Jane wanting to know how to deal with her two-year-old's hitting phase. Hi, Erin. I came across your podcast recently, and after visiting your website,

I've purchased the three-month package. I'm planning to go through all the courses, however.

I'm wondering if there is a particular section I should focus on first as I'm having issues

with my two-and-a- and a half year old son hitting and

throwing things. This hitting phase has been going on since December and I can't seem to figure out

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