Back-to-School Anxiety & Refusal? 5 Action Steps That Work #507
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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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 at home and in the classroom. Did you know that you can share our school programs with your child’s teachers? We have extended the Christmas in July Sale for an extra week so you can do so! Visit https://celebratecalm.com/july-sale/ to take advantage of the lowest prices of the year. Email [email protected] with any questions.
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| 1:04.0 | So it's back to school time and there are a lot of families out there with kids who get excited |
| 1:09.2 | about the first day of school. They've got their new |
| 1:11.8 | clothes on, the new backpack. They're going to have that first day of school picture where they're |
| 1:16.5 | all happy and smiling. But if you're listening to this podcast, it's probably going to look a lot |
| 1:21.0 | differently than that because you've got a strong will child, a neurodivergent child, |
| 1:25.1 | and your child is going to have a lot of anxiety over school. |
| 1:29.1 | Some of your kids will just refuse to go. Some will cry the first few days or weeks. |
| 1:35.5 | So how are you going to handle that? How are you going to handle the fact that your first day of |
| 1:40.5 | school pictures are going to feature a child who is perhaps scowling or crying or just |
| 1:45.9 | refuses to allow you to take their picture. I want to give you five very practical strategies |
| 1:52.1 | you can use for school. And you'll be able apply these in all different situation where your |
| 1:57.7 | kids struggle with anxiety. So that is what we're going to discuss on today's episode, the Calm Parenting Podcast. Welcome, this is Kirk Martin, founder of Celebrate Calm. You can find us at Celebrate Calm.com. Quick note, even though it's August, we decided to extend the Christmas and July sale for one week because many parents emailed and said, hey, we want to go deeper, we want to change, |
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