Fighting Over Doritos: Handling Tantrums & Sibling Fights
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Fighting Over Doritos: Handling Tantrums & Sibling Fights
Two kids bring home bags of Doritos. The brother eats them, sister complains, Mom intervenes and takes away snacks, son cries and has a tantrum. A teenager demands the car keys, doesn't get them, and has a tantrum. So what is the appropriate consequence for a tantrum? Kirk's answers may surprise you and will hopefully make your job easier.
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| 1:04.2 | So you've got two kids and they come home from school or a party or vacation Bible school and they've got bags of Doritos. |
| 1:14.0 | And you've got this little boy and he loves Doritos. |
| 1:16.9 | Because who wouldn't love Doritos, right? |
| 1:19.2 | I know it's not organic and it has all the kind of food color. |
| 1:22.4 | But you know what I mean. |
| 1:23.3 | When I was a kid, we ate Doritos with peanut butter on it. |
| 1:26.4 | Gross, but amazing. And look, |
| 1:29.6 | I'm a very healthy adult now, so don't freak out moms and dads about your kids doing these |
| 1:34.5 | things. So here's what happens. The son eats some Doritos, Mom puts them away, and then the next |
| 1:41.2 | day, what happens? Well, the kid comes in he's like mom I want more |
| 1:44.7 | Doritos and mom's like okay eat out of your bag well what do you think this little |
| 1:49.7 | boy is going to do he also grabs his sister's bag of Doritos what's going to happen |
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