11 Ways to “Correct” A Strong-Willed Child Without Provoking A Battle #488
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Do you have a child who HATES being corrected? Even if you do it in a very sweet way, your child gets furious, lashes out, screams or covers his or her ears. Does your child blame others and refuse to listen? Good! You’re not alone. Kirk gives you 11 very specific scripts and action steps to get kids of all ages to listen without the power struggles.
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| 1:04.1 | So do you have a child who hates being corrected? Even if you do it in a really sweet way, |
| 1:10.3 | your child gets furious or lashes out or |
| 1:12.6 | screams or even covers his or her ears. Does your child blame others and refuse to listen? Good, |
| 1:18.8 | because that's very normal with our kids, which means we have some answers for you. And that |
| 1:23.7 | is what we're going to discuss on today's episode of the calm parenting podcast so welcome |
| 1:27.6 | this is kirk mart founder celebrate calm and you can find us in our summer sale at celebrate calm.com |
| 1:32.2 | so mom emailed and said i know this sounds insane but our child hates being corrected i don't |
| 1:38.6 | think that sounds insane at all i think that's normal who wants to be corrected Kirk, come into my office. I'm going to show you, |
| 1:45.5 | tell you all the things you've done wrong. This is very common with humans and with our kids |
| 1:51.3 | especially, especially with those sensitive, strong will kids. Now, you can correct like compliant |
| 1:57.0 | kids and they'll just adjust and work on it without any pushback. But you do the same thing |
| 2:02.2 | with our kids and you might get a screaming, flailing child lashing out at you. So let's first review why |
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