3 Quick Ways to Help Kids at Back-to-School Time
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | So I bet I have a way for even reluctant teens and tweens to spend time with you. |
| 0:05.4 | Sit and better on the sofa, wrapped in the heavenly softness of the new cozy earth bubble cuddle |
| 0:10.8 | blanket. It is so ridiculously soft. Your toddlers, your teens, pets, even your spouse is going to |
| 0:16.8 | want to cuddle with you. And you will have the best talks all wrapped up together. We absolutely |
| 0:23.7 | love our bubble cuddle blanket because it's the perfect combination of style and comfort. Oh, |
| 0:29.5 | and your sensory kids, forget about it. They're going to try to steal the cozy earth bubble |
| 0:33.7 | cuddle blanket from your room. I'd have them do extra chores to buy their own, but then you |
| 0:38.6 | might not be able to get them out of bed. Look, your bed shouldn't just be a place to sleep. It should be |
| 0:43.4 | your happy place. Use the cozy earth bamboo sheets. We'd love those. And this new blanket, |
| 0:50.2 | amazing. Go to cozyearth.com. Use code calm for 40% off. Let them know that the calm guy sent you. That's cozy earth.com use code calm for 40% off let them know that the calm guy sent you |
| 0:56.0 | that's cozy earth.com code calm for 40% off so some of your kids are already complaining of an |
| 1:04.4 | upset stomach as new school year rolls around it's all that anxiety and all the anticipated |
| 1:09.9 | frustration over school. |
| 1:12.1 | You know, for some of you, the last year was a mess, especially with COVID. Now we're going back |
| 1:16.5 | into, for some of your kids, they haven't been in a classroom in a long time. And the last time |
| 1:22.1 | they were there, it wasn't that awesome. And you're just hoping that the new teacher understands your child and can help |
| 1:30.6 | him or her succeed instead of just going back to relying on behavior charts that make things worse. |
| 1:37.4 | And by the way, when we go and we train teachers, we go over that. The first thing I go over is |
| 1:44.0 | please let go over the behavior |
| 1:45.9 | charts. Behavior charts work for compliant kids who don't need behavior charts, but they tend to |
| 1:52.2 | just cause our kids to shut down, and it just reinforces failure. Because all that child thinks is |
| 1:59.8 | this. Look, school begins at 8 a.m. By 805, I'm already on |
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