10 Insights into Strong-Willed Kids You Must Know & Accept #497

Calm Parenting Podcast

Kirk Martin

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Social Sciences, Science, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Parenting

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Do you have a child who must touch the hot stove, resists what you want first, refuses to do chores or anything the easier way? Who is not immediately obedient, doesn’t respond to consequences, appears self-centered, won’t show math work, does the bare minimum to get by, won’t push through when things get hard? Good! I want to show you how to work with these traits instead of fighting them all the time. So you can actually enjoy your kids and your family life.

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1:04.1	Do you have a child who must touch the hot stove? Resist what you want first, refuses to do chores or anything the easier way,
1:14.3	who is not immediately obedient, doesn't respond to consequences, appears self-centered,
1:19.5	won't show math work, does the bare minimum to get by, won't push through when things get hard,
1:26.2	good. I want to show you how to work with these traits
1:29.8	instead of fighting them all the time. So you can actually enjoy your kids and family life. So that
1:35.8	is what we're going to discuss on today's episode of the Calm Parenting podcast. So welcome.
1:39.6	This is Kirk Martin, founder of Celebrate Calm. And you can find us in our summer sale at
1:43.2	celebrate Calm.com.
1:44.8	All right. I'm going to give you 10 insights that you must really internalize and know and really
1:51.6	accept, I think, about your strong will child if you want to stop all the power struggles and
1:57.5	just enjoy them. So number one, this is a hard one. Your strong will child is never,
2:03.8	never, ever, ever, ever going to do things your way or the way you want them done. I've discussed
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