3 Quick Ways to Help Kids at Back-to-School Time

Calm Parenting Podcast

Kirk Martin

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

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🗓️ 6 August 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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As the new school year begins, you’re hoping the new teacher understands your child and can help him succeed, instead of relying on behavior charts that make things worse. So how can you prepare new teachers to help your child? How can you send your child to school feeling confident that this year will be different? Kirk shares a killer idea from the ADHD University program you should use every year. Want personal mentoring with Kirk via Phone? Click here to learn about mentoring packages. Take advantage of our Back-To-School Sale. Set your kids up for success this year: https://celebratecalm.com/products/ Want to book a LIVE EVENT in 2022/2023?! We are now booking IN PERSON and Zoom events for schools, PTAs, churches, synagogues, corporations, and agencies! Simply email Casey@CelebrateCalm with LIVE in the subject line and he'll share a one-page proposal within hours. It's EASY! Questions? Need help deciding on the best tools for your family? Email [email protected] and Casey will help you personally! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So some of your kids are already complaining of an upset stomach as new school year rolls around.
0:06.5	It's all that anxiety and all the anticipated frustration over school.
0:11.0	You know for some of you the last year was a mess, especially with COVID, now we're going back into,
0:16.7	for some of your kids, they haven't been in a classroom in a long time.
0:20.4	And the last time they were there, it wasn't that awesome.
0:23.4	And you're just hoping that the new teacher understands your child
0:28.5	and can help him or her succeed,
0:31.2	instead of just going back to relying on behavior charts that
0:35.1	make things worse. And by the way, when we go and we train teachers, we go over
0:41.0	that's the first thing I go over is please let go over the behavior charts
0:45.5	behavior charts work for compliant kids who don't need behavior charts but they tend to just
0:51.3	cause our kids to shut down and it just reinforces failure
0:56.7	because all that child thinks is this.
0:59.1	Look school begins at 8 a.m.
1:01.4	By 8.05 I'm already on red on the behavior chart. If I'm going to be on red today
1:07.3	I may as well just double down and make it a really bad day. They just give up.
1:12.4	So what we try to do is teach them how to give
1:15.3	our kids tools to succeed. So how can you prepare new teachers to help your child? How can you send your child to school
1:25.2	feeling confident that this year will be different? Well that's what we're going to
1:30.3	talk about today on the Calm Parenting Podcast.
1:33.2	So welcome, this is Kirk Martin,
1:34.3	founder of Celebrate Calm.
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