10 Ways To Stop Power Struggles & Get Kids To Do Stuff
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
10 Ways To Stop Power Struggles & Get Kids To Do Stuff
Do you find yourself getting into power struggles with strong-willed kids over things you never thought you’d have to fight about? Even simple things like putting your shoes on, eating your food, going to school, doing homework, getting ready for bed, going to an activity your child actually enjoys? This is how life works with a strong-willed child! Kirk gives you 10 tools in 25 minutes to overcome anxiety, resistance, and rudeness!
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| 1:04.4 | So do you struggle getting your kids to just do simple things you never thought you'd have to fight about. |
| 1:12.4 | Do you find yourself getting into power struggles with strong will kids over everything? |
| 1:17.9 | Even simple things like putting your shoes on, eating your food, going to school, doing homework, getting ready for bed, |
| 1:25.2 | going to an activity that you actually enjoy doing once |
| 1:30.6 | you get there, but you fight me. This is how life works with a strong will child. And that doesn't |
| 1:36.9 | even include getting them to do things they don't want to do, like taking some icky, antibiotic, or |
| 1:43.2 | medication. So, in this episode, the Calm Parenting Podcast, |
| 1:47.3 | I want to give you eight or ten different tools for use in daily life because some days |
| 1:52.8 | you're going to use five different strategies with the same kid. So welcome. This is Kirk Martin, |
| 1:58.5 | founder, Celebrate Calm. You can find us at Celebrate Calm.com. Look, let's jump in. |
| 2:03.0 | I'm going to apologize up front for talking too fast in this episode. I have enough content for two podcasts, but I want to fit this into one podcast and still keep it under 25 minutes to respect your time as busy parents. |
| 2:14.9 | And I'm going to use morning routine as kind of the central |
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