7 Ways to Stop Negative Behavior & Control Your Own Anxiety #483
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Our greatest enemy is our own self-inflicted parental anxiety. It sabotages our efforts and hurts relationships. Your anxiety yields the exact opposite outcome you want—your kids resist you and misbehave more! Kirk gives you 7 action steps and scripts to break this negative cycle.
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| 1:57.0 | summer. Do you ever wonder why your kids fight you so much, even over little things? |
| 2:03.3 | Have you ever noticed that the more you care about something, the less your kids do, and the more |
| 2:08.6 | they resist? Have you noticed that you cannot push these strong well kids, you must lead them |
| 2:13.8 | and draw them? Have you noticed they often reject what you want first until they can |
| 2:19.9 | touch the hot stove and own it themselves? Ever notice the more you try to get them to move, |
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