10 Ways to Stop Daily Homework Battles
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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10 Ways to Stop Daily Homework Battles
Instead of bribing or threatening, let's use your child's brain's natural powers to stop the homework battles. Kirk gives you creative, practical strategies to get homework done without the nightly stress. The most important part? You kids learn how their brains work best. Share this with other parents so we can stop homework from tearing families apart. Learn more at CelebrateCalm.com.
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| 1:04.1 | So do you have a strong-willed or neurodivergent child who should be able to buzz through his or her |
| 1:09.5 | homework in like 45 minutes, but would |
| 1:12.7 | seemingly rather fight you tooth and nail for twice that long to not do it. Does homework time |
| 1:18.3 | ever end in tears for you or your child? Because look, saying in a frustrated voice, |
| 1:23.3 | you know what, if you would just focus, you'd be done in 45 minutes instead of it taking three |
| 1:27.4 | hours. |
| 1:27.9 | It's not motivating to your child. And you've tried bribery and threats and pleading and consequences and nothing seems to work. |
| 1:35.9 | Well, let's try using their brain's natural powers to make this a little less stressful. |
| 1:42.8 | On a previous podcast, we talked about |
| 1:45.3 | how to internally motivate your child. |
| 1:47.5 | So listen to that. |
| 1:48.6 | We talked about respectfully saying no to homework sometimes, |
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