Best Morning Routine Idea! I Dare You To Try This
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Best Morning Routine Idea! I Dare You To Try This
How many of you dread waking your kids up in the morning for school, starting the day with a power struggle at 6:42am?! Well, your kids dread this as well! No amount of pleading, bribing, threatening or yelling ever work. Your child doesn’t like what you made for breakfast (even though you gave him 6 options!), doesn’t want to brush his teeth, get his shoes on, or go to school. So Kirk shares the best morning routine idea ever. Learn more at https://celebratecalm.com
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| 0:00.0 | So I bet I have a way for even reluctant teens and tweens to spend time with you. |
| 0:05.4 | Sit and better on the sofa, wrapped in the heavenly softness of the new cozy earth bubble cuddle |
| 0:10.8 | blanket. It is so ridiculously soft. Your toddlers, your teens, pets, even your spouse is going to |
| 0:16.8 | want to cuddle with you. And you will have the best talks all wrapped up together. We absolutely |
| 0:23.7 | love our bubble cuddle blanket because it's the perfect combination of style and comfort. Oh, |
| 0:29.5 | and your sensory kids, forget about it. They're going to try to steal the cozy earth bubble |
| 0:33.7 | cuddle blanket from your room. I'd have them do extra chores to buy their own, but then you |
| 0:38.6 | might not be able to get them out of bed. Look, your bed shouldn't just be a place to sleep. It should be |
| 0:43.4 | your happy place. Use the cozy earth bamboo sheets. We'd love those. And this new blanket, |
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| 1:01.3 | How many of you dread waking your kids up in the morning for school? |
| 1:05.8 | Starting the day with a power struggle at 6.42 a.m. |
| 1:09.8 | Well, guess what? Your kids dread this as well. And no amount of pleading, bribing, threatening or yelling ever work. In fact, this is kind of what your child hears you say. Come on, honey, it's time to get up. I know you didn't sleep well because you have a busy brain and anxiety. And it's really early in the morning. But it's time to get up and go to that place where you're on red on the behavior chart every day, where they group you with only kids your own age and it's naturally hard to connect with them so you sit alone in the cafeteria where you often feel stupid even though you're probably the brightest kid in the class. And now I'm rushing you to do the five things you at least want to do early in the |
| 1:44.8 | morning. Get up for school, shower, get dressed in clothes that don't feel comfortable, eat food |
| 1:49.8 | you don't like because your stomach is upset, brush your hair and brush your teeth, ready for |
| 1:54.7 | another wonderful day at school, honey? Right? Like that? So, of course, you're going to get push back look it's not your |
| 2:01.9 | fault you're not doing anything wrong and to be honest neither is your child look many of us who |
| 2:06.8 | had jobs that we hated with a boss who didn't understand or like us doing work we weren't really |
| 2:12.8 | great at right that happened to be many times when I was a young professional. Well, we felt that anxious |
| 2:18.2 | feeling in our gut on Sunday evenings as we prepared for the work week. Right? We didn't hop out |
| 2:24.5 | of bed excited to begin the new day. We did it because we had to, but we didn't like it. Look, |
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