Defiant, Disrespectful Child: A Script to Repair Your Relationship #464
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Defiant, Disrespectful Child: A Script to Repair Your Relationship #464
You have a challenging child who says disrespectful things to you. You would be justified in punishing this child, but that won’t fix the underlying relationship that’s strained or broken. This is a powerful real life story with a script and action steps to repair this relationship with a strong-willed child. Share with Dads.
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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. |
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| 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 |
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| 0:56.0 | that's cozy earth.com code calm for 40% off so i'll start with a confession that many of you have |
| 1:03.8 | heard me say before i did not like our son when he was young he was so challenging everything |
| 1:10.2 | was hard putting your shoes on, eating, |
| 1:13.2 | going to bed, doing school work. He was really emotional with these really intense meltdowns. |
| 1:18.9 | And all it did was provoke my own immaturity. It was not his issue. It was my issue. And it forced me to grow up. |
| 1:27.2 | And so, but I had spent the first like seven years of his life just trying to It was my issue and it forced me to grow up. |
| 1:32.9 | And so, but I'd spent the first like seven years of his life just trying to fix and change him until I finally discovered that I was the one that needed to change. |
| 1:37.6 | But in that process, I nearly destroyed our relationship and I nearly destroyed our son. |
| 1:43.6 | So how can you recover from this when you and your |
| 1:47.8 | strong well child are opposites or worse yet you're just alike? Or maybe you have a spouse |
| 1:55.1 | who just is not connecting with your strong will child and you can see this divide starting to happen, or it's |
| 2:03.1 | well along its way. How do you repair that? That is what we're going to discuss on this episode |
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