Complaining, Bored kids and Judgmental Relatives (Vacation Tips)
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Complaining, Bored kids and Judgmental Relatives (Vacation Tips)
You often get judged by relatives because your strong-willed child doesn’t behave the right way. How can you prepare your kids for the unknowns of family vacation? What do you say when kids are bored or complain the entire time? Kirk provides concrete strategies and scripts to use with parents and relatives to help them be constructive instead of judgmental.
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| 1:57.9 | So many of you are going to have family get-togethers this weekend all through the |
| 2:03.2 | year some of you are about to go on a week-long family vacation and that means your kids are going to be |
| 2:08.4 | off their schedule they're going to be exhausted and overwhelmed and they're going to have massive |
| 2:13.0 | tantrums and meltdowns in front of your family members who have the perfect children and you're going |
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