3 Ways to Keep From Destroying Your Child’s Confidence

Calm Parenting Podcast

Kirk Martin

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

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🗓️ 15 January 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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3 Ways to Keep From Destroying Your Child’s Confidence Halfway through this podcast, I got very intense and almost swore because I realized one way we are literally dooming our kids…but then I provided two ways to change this. This is a foundational and very important podcast if you have a strong-willed child who doesn’t respond to consequences. Our New Year's Sale Ends This Weekend: You get everything we have ever recorded delivered directly to an app on your iPhone, iPad, Android, or computer. Listen anywhere, anytime. You get 35 hours of practical strategies and concrete examples, along with multiple PDF workbooks. Make 2023 different. Click here to learn more and take advantage of our New Year's Sale: https://celebratecalm.com/calm-2023/ Want to book a LIVE EVENT in 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 this is a little bit different way to start the podcast because as I was about to record this one
0:05.6	I had a new thought and this is a little bit rough but just let me roll with it
0:09.8	How many times do we think or even say to our kids how many times do I have to tell you to stop doing X?
0:18.0	What is it going to take to get through that head of yours?
0:22.0	Why can't you just do what I tell you to do?
0:25.8	Now look, I get that.
0:27.2	I get your frustration with strong will kids.
0:29.6	Our son was so strong will, everything was a struggle. And the strong will child is going to take up 70 or 80% of your energy in your home right I said all those things to our son and I nearly destroyed my relationship with him and his
0:45.2	confidence along the way. Think about this. What if I were to say to you as the
0:51.4	parent? How many times do I have to tell you to stop the endless
0:55.1	lecturing and yelling? What is it going to take to get through your head that
0:59.8	reacting out of frustration of anger never works.
1:03.0	Why can't you just do what I tell you to do in all these podcasts?
1:07.5	Right? Like what if I said that?
1:09.5	Wouldn't you be frustrated and want to give up? Of course you would. What you want and need are tools
1:17.8	to stop the lecturing, stop the yelling, stop the reacting, and so that's why I focus so much on teaching you how to change your body posture right like simply sitting in the midst of chaos in the midst of a situation changes the entire dynamic of that situation.
1:37.0	And I know people are like, that's so simplistic.
1:39.0	I like simple because simple works and you're busy parents and you don't have time to go through the
1:44.4	what is the 10-step calming process well I don't know but I know that if I sit
1:48.8	it changes my posture it changes my tone of voice it changes how I see the situation and instead of
1:56.0	stepping toward my child and and provoking a defensive response it changes things I
2:02.0	think one of the most recent podcasts we went through
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