5 Secrets to Prevent School Battles & Motivate Your Kids
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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5 Secrets to Prevent School Battles & Motivate Your Kids
If you have a strong-willed or neurodivergent child, the school year can be filled with daily homework battles, anxiety, and often tears. Should you say no to homework? How can you motivate your child in school? Kirk answers the tough questions and gives you 5 powerful steps to create a successful school year.
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| 1:02.5 | off. So parents who do not have a strong will child or a child on a spectrum, a neurodivergent |
| 1:10.3 | child, have absolutely no idea |
| 1:13.3 | what a nightmare the school year can be for so many of you, that there are literally fights from |
| 1:20.1 | morning until bedtime, which and some of your kids, it is a late, late bedtime and they don't want to |
| 1:26.0 | get up in the morning. So there's school refusal and anxiety and then fights over schoolwork. And some of your kids aren't that |
| 1:32.8 | great at sports or if they play, they're not going to try their hardest. And so the school year |
| 1:37.1 | can be nothing but a never-ending battle. And I really want this year to be very, very different for you. For some of us here in the United |
| 1:46.9 | States school has already begun for a lot of you. It hasn't yet begun for our friends in Europe. |
| 1:52.5 | I know you're on holiday right now, which basically means Germans and Dutch people are everywhere, |
| 1:57.2 | including out west in the United States. And we love having you here. So I wanted to do this |
| 2:02.9 | special episode to give you really five different tools so that we can make this school year |
| 2:09.7 | different than the last one because sometimes school can be pretty traumatic for a lot of your |
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