Anxiety Over New Activities, Summer Camp, Moving, School & More? #485
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Do you have a child who fights you over going to new places or hemming and hawing about not going to that expensive camp you paid for? Do you have a child who is nervous about family vacation or an upcoming move? Kirk gives you very specific strategies and scripts to overcome anxiety, stop the power struggles, and bond with your child through these big emotions.
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| 1:01.0 | So do you have a child who will provoke a big power struggle when you just try to get them to go to some new place or try a new activity? |
| 1:09.9 | Maybe they're already hemming and hawing about not going |
| 1:12.9 | to that expensive summer camp that they insisted you sign them up for. Maybe a child who refuses |
| 1:19.4 | to go to school. Do you have a child who is nervous about family vacation or an upcoming move? |
| 1:25.4 | Well, most of our kids struggle with anxiety, so I want to give you very specific |
| 1:29.6 | strategies and scripts to help you with this on this episode of the Calm Parenting Podcast. So welcome, |
| 1:35.2 | this is Kirk Martin, founder, Celebrate Calm, and you can find us and our summer sale at |
| 1:39.3 | celebrate calm.com. Look, when our kids resist, we tend to threaten consequences or try to bribe them. |
| 1:45.1 | But nothing rational works because anxiety is not rational. |
| 1:50.0 | Here is why many of our kids struggle with this so much. |
| 1:53.8 | We have kids with very busy brains. |
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