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Calm Parenting Podcast

2 Ways to (Re)Build Your Relationship With Your Strong-Willed Child

Calm Parenting Podcast

Kirk Martin

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

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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2 Ways to (Re)Build Your Relationship With Your Strong-Willed Child

To my shame, I didn’t like our son when he was little and nearly destroyed my relationship with him. I struggled with how to connect with him. These kids are tough and it doesn’t help that we’re all flawed from our own childhoods. No one gives you an instruction manual for raising these kids. So we put one together! Here are two concrete, powerful action steps from the No B.S. Instruction Manual to rebuild a strained relationship.

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off. To my shame, I did not like our son when he was little, and it nearly destroyed my

1:10.6

relationship with Casey, a relationship that

1:13.3

I cherish to this day. And I struggled with how to connect with him. I struggled with how to

1:19.6

understand him, right? Because it was just, there were so many things. It's just every day seems so

1:24.9

difficult. Just putting your shoes on had to be difficult. Any changes and

1:29.6

plans resulted in a big meltdown. I didn't realize at the time that he got that for me. Right.

1:35.3

And he had to control other people. It was kind of bossy and demanding, wanted to be in control. You

1:41.0

couldn't play board games with Casey because he changed rules of the game

1:44.4

cheat or quit like many of your kids do or enforcing justice. That's not fair. Right. Everything

1:51.2

just seemed to be very difficult and there are arguments over literally everything, right? Schoolwork

1:57.0

was difficult. Bedtime, morning, right? He procrastinate. All these different things just built up.

2:05.0

And I wasn't, I wasn't mature. And so I blamed it on him, right? I was in that if then, well, if our son would

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