3 Shocking Thoughts Strong-Willed Kids Want to Share With You
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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3 Shocking Thoughts Strong-Willed Kids Want to Share With You
If your strong-willed child could verbalize what they are feeling, this is what they would tell you. I hope you find this insight helpful in understanding a child who often feels misunderstood—which leads to anger, defiance and power struggles. We can change this. Let your child listen--they will feel validated and it may prompt helpful discussions.
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| 1:04.4 | Dad, your tough guy approach will not work with me. I will fight you and it will blow up our |
| 1:10.7 | relationship. And then mom will be |
| 1:12.8 | forced to come and be the referee between us. But she's almost always going to side with me because |
| 1:17.7 | I'm our kid. And it's going to create tension between you and mom and between us. Or I'll simply |
| 1:24.1 | bury that anger until I'm as big as you and then it's going to come out with a |
| 1:28.3 | vengeance in my teen years. But I don't want to fight you, Dad. You have a lot of hard fault |
| 1:33.6 | wisdom you have gained in your life and I need that wisdom. Look, I have a harder path in life. |
| 1:39.5 | I'm choosing that. I'm a stove toucher. I choose the harsher consequences, the harder path on purpose, |
| 1:47.7 | and I need your wisdom, but I need you to deal with your own father issues. It's not right to put that on me. |
| 1:55.1 | I know I make you feel uncomfortable. And maybe that's because I'm a lot like you. And you know how much pain you've |
| 2:00.9 | been through and you want me to avoid those same mistakes. Or maybe I'm just so different from you |
| 2:06.1 | that you literally don't know what to do or how to connect with me. And I get that. But you have to |
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