Expert Button-Pusher Who Argues & Negotiates? 5 Scripts & Action Steps to Help.
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Expert Button-Pusher Who Argues & Negotiates? 5 Scripts & Action Steps to Help.
Do you have a child who is an expert button pusher? Just so naturally gifted at arguing, negotiating, and wearing you down? It provokes you, your spouse or siblings and then spirals your home out of control. How do you respond without escalating the situation OR letting your kids get away with disrespect? Kirk shares 5 concrete action steps with scripts for kids of all ages.
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| 1:04.1 | So how many of you have kids who are expert button pushers? Just so naturally gifted at it. And it usually provokes a reaction from you |
| 1:14.5 | or your spouse or from siblings, but that almost always spirals out of control. So how do you |
| 1:21.9 | respond to this without escalating or without letting kids get away with it. That is what we're going to discuss |
| 1:30.3 | on today's episode of the Calm Parenting Podcast. Welcome. This is Kirk Martin, founder of Celebrate Calm. |
| 1:35.1 | You can find us in our Christmas sale at Celebrate Calm.com. Look, I know you have kids that are |
| 1:40.6 | extremely challenging. They are experts at questioning you, arguing with you, |
| 1:45.0 | negotiating with you. They're like little cops, judges, and attorneys all wrapped into one, |
| 1:49.0 | and they will try to wear you down and push your buttons. And it's not right that they do that, |
| 1:55.0 | but you do have a choice here and you have to stop reacting. So I want to share five of my favorite responses, |
| 2:03.0 | even though there are many, many more because it's a busy time of year. So let's imagine that it's |
| 2:08.9 | that dreaded late afternoon, early evening time of day, right? You're tired and you've got all |
| 2:15.6 | these things to do and dinner to cook and homework and bedtime |
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