5 Quick Tips To De-Escalate Meltdowns & Sibling Fights During Chaotic Holiday Break
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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5 Quick Tips To De-Escalate Meltdowns & Sibling Fights During Chaotic Holiday Break
You have tired, irritable kids who are bored, out of their routine, and bugging each other. You’ll be tempted to double down on consequences in the moment—which spiral into huge meltdowns (and fights between spouses!). So how can you de-escalate tense standoffs and sibling fights, in the moment, instead of ruining entire days?! Kirk gives you tons of strategies and scripts in less than 20 minutes!
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| 1:02.5 | off. Okay, it is that wonderful but dreaded holiday time. Christmas is over and now everyone is |
| 1:10.8 | together. And so situations are escalating. |
| 1:15.0 | You've got everybody is tired. They're not sleeping well. All the kids are amped up. They're |
| 1:20.5 | off their regular routine, probably eating poorly. There's all this pressure to have a great time |
| 1:26.1 | with family. You've got judgmental family or family |
| 1:29.5 | who's just watching you do your parenting with a strong-willed child. Siblings are together all day, |
| 1:36.7 | all night long. You know, it's even harder sometimes. spouses are together all day and all night |
| 1:42.5 | long because usually you're not together that much. And that's |
| 1:45.6 | going to cause some issues. And what I want you to know is this is perfectly normal. It would be |
| 1:51.9 | weird if people were emailing like, man, everything's just going so smoothly. Everybody's |
| 1:58.2 | getting to get along so well together. My spouse and I are on the same page and |
| 2:04.2 | we're disciplining and doing everything perfectly aligned that would be weird so I want you to know |
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