Hello and welcome to the MS for Mama podcast. I'm your host, Abby Halberstadt, happy wife,

mama to 10, Bible Believing Christian, and we are going to jump into an episode of What

You Want to Know Wednesday podcast style answering your questions for this January 2026 episode, which is crazy to say.

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Okay, so we're going to dive in with a very relevant to me question, and that is

how do you deal with a whiny slash grumpy preschooler?

Don't know what to do anymore.

My current five-year-olds who will be in school this fall.

So, well, they'll be learning.

They're already learning in life, but they will be at our homeschool co-op and they'll

be officially doing lessons with me

this fall are in a very whiny stage. So what do I do? I do a lot of redirecting. I do a lot of reminding

them. I do a lot of outright saying, nope, say it again, but in a different tone of voice. And I do a lot of outright saying, nope, say it again, but in a different tone of voice.

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