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Calm Parenting Podcast

Are Kids Rejecting Your Authority…Or Your Anxiety? #436

Calm Parenting Podcast

Kirk Martin

Relationships, Education, Parenting, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Are Kids Rejecting Your Authority…Or Your Anxiety?

We can very quickly stop 80% of power struggles with our kids. And it has nothing to do with controlling their behavior—only our own anxiety. Our anxiety compels us to lecture and micromanage…and that causes kids to resist you even more! Kirk gives you 6 practical action steps to stop this dynamic now! 


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0:00.0

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1:04.1

So have you ever noticed when you try to push a strong-willed child, they resist even more. Have you ever noticed when you try to rush

1:12.9

your kids with, come on, get in the car, get in the car, got to go, got to go. They usually move more

1:17.4

slowly. Here's a big insight before we even get into this podcast. Your kids are not rejecting you.

1:25.1

They're not rejecting your authority. They are rejecting your anxiety. So that is what

1:31.8

we're going to discuss on today's episode of the Calm Parenting Podcast. Welcome. This is Kirk Martin

1:36.4

Founder Celebrate Calm. You can find us in our New Year's sale at Celebrate Calm.com. So last week I

1:41.9

mentioned, we had completely updated our 30 Days to Calm program.

1:45.5

So if you have our programs, look in your app and you'll see all new content.

1:50.1

I went through strategies for dealing with childhood wounds, more on dealing with your triggers,

1:55.7

on moms especially who constantly check the temperature of their home.

1:59.7

But several parents emailed and said they listened to just the first part of that program,

2:05.2

just the first section, the first of 10, on parental anxiety,

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