Anxiety, School Refusal, & Defiance: 5 Strategies That Work
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Anxiety, School Refusal, & Defiance: 5 Strategies That Work
What do you say and do when a child struggles with anxiety, refuses to go to school, has separation anxiety, or makes defiant comments? Kirk gives parents (and teachers) 5 concrete, specific strategies that work.
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| 1:04.0 | the first day of school and the kids are excited they've got their new clothes on a new backpack |
| 1:08.3 | and they're going to have that first day of school picture where |
| 1:12.6 | they're all happy and smiling. But if you're listening to this podcast, it may look a lot |
| 1:17.5 | differently than that because you have a strong will child, a neurodivergent child, and your |
| 1:22.2 | child is going to have a lot of anxiety over school. Some of your kids will just have outright refusal. They just |
| 1:29.0 | won't go to school. So how do you handle that? I want to give you five very practical strategies |
| 1:35.7 | you can use for school and you'll be able to apply these in all the different situations where |
| 1:41.2 | your kids struggle with anxiety. So that is what we're going to discuss |
| 1:45.5 | on today's episode of the Calm Parenting Podcast. So welcome. This is Kirk Martin, founder of Celebrate Calm. |
| 1:50.3 | You can find us at Celebrate Calm.com. Let's dive right into this. Look, this is very personal to me. |
| 1:55.3 | When I was a little kid in kindergarten, I sat outside on the front steps for the first three days of school and just |
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