Are You Excusing Behavior...Or Changing It? A Challenge! #450
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Are You Excusing Behavior...Or Changing It? A Challenge! #450
Your toddler finds scissors and mangles her bangs, your boys ruin your good pillows fighting outside, your tween/teen procrastinates until 2am to complete an assignment. You would be justified and right to lecture and give them consequences. But this week, I am challenging you to do something very different when your child misbehaves....that will actually change their behavior more quickly.
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| 1:57.0 | summer. So you have kids who are going to do things in a way that really irritates you. |
| 2:03.4 | You have kids who are going to do things in a way that you don't approve of or not the way |
| 2:08.6 | you want them to. |
| 2:10.1 | Your little kids, when they clean up a mess, they use good clothes, clean clothes to do it. |
| 2:14.5 | Or two kids are using really your nice pillows off the sofa in order |
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