Calmly Parenting the Strong-Willed Child :: Kirk Martin [Ep 69]
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5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2015
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Then we get personal and I get advice for dealing with the boys in our home who say “I don’t want to” more than “yes, ma’am”. The solution has more to do with me than with them…ahem.
what we chat about:
- Kirk’s advice for dad, using a football analogy
- One small thing couples can do to show kids connection
- Kirk’s helpful definition of a strong-willed child
- Practical tips to help direct your bright children looking for ownership
- How your tone affects your children’s response.
- Making the transition from the old controlling way to new calm parenting–setting new expectations
- Some of my new favorite phrases to use when parenting
connect with kirk:
links mentioned:
- How to stop yelling, lecturing and power struggles (Ep 62)
- Email Newsletter–top 10 free newsletters (check out #6!!)
- Live (free) Workshops
- Listen to FREE PODCASTS by Kirk
- CDs/DVDs
- 888-506-1871–Toll Free Number for Frustrated Parents
do you have a strong-willed child? what advice did you find most useful?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the God Center mom podcast with me Heather McFadion. As the mom to four young boys, I know mother-hood's hard, but sometimes I think I make it even harder than it needs to be |
| 0:16.4 | I'll worry about my needs being met or I'll spend so much energy trying to make my boys happy |
| 0:21.8 | That I forget that if I would take my eyes off me and my eyes |
| 0:24.8 | off my kids and keep my eyes on God, that those desires would grow strangely dim and their |
| 0:30.8 | contentment would go up as I'm led by his spirit. I also forget that I'm surrounded |
| 0:35.2 | by God. He is going before me and places that I'm fearful of. He is walking with me on the hard days and he's coming behind me redeeming any mistake I made. |
| 0:46.0 | So each week I'll interview a new guest and we'll discuss what it means to be a God Center mom. |
| 0:52.0 | Thanks for listening. |
| 0:53.0 | Nobody tells men, |
| 0:59.0 | nobody teaches men this stuff to be honest. |
| 1:01.0 | He's telling them to go to work, work really hard, be persistent, and be a good guy, but they don't really prepare them for what do you do when just things are out of control at your house which is pretty much just |
| 1:14.1 | normal life. You are listening to episode 69 of the God Center Mom |
| 1:18.1 | podcast I am back with Kirk Martin y'all responded so well to his last episode, episode 62, where he helped |
| 1:27.0 | us stop yelling, lecturing, and power struggles, but I think I need to go back and listen to it again. I've already forgotten so many things. |
| 1:34.7 | Kirk writes over at celebratecom.com he speaks nationally and he has some great stuff available free online. |
| 1:43.0 | If you go to the show notes, you can find that. |
| 1:45.0 | Today he's back helping us with our strong-willed kiddos. |
| 1:49.0 | I love how he kind of defines them and gives positive words because we know that they have a |
| 1:56.2 | bright future even though sometimes in the heat of the moment it can feel like prison maybe in their future but we we want to believe the best and we want them to do their best but we don't know how and it becomes a battle and so I feel like his advice today |
| 2:10.7 | it was so helpful to me to reframe how I see my boys and how I interact |
| 2:15.9 | with my boys. He also gives a couple other tips that were helpful to me and has a couple of words of advice for the dads out there. So even if your |
| 2:25.4 | husband listens to the first few minutes of the episode I think your family |
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