Handling A Demanding Child Without Losing Your Mind (Give Their Brain A Win)
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Handling A Demanding Child Without Losing Your Mind (Give Their Brain A Win)
Do you have a child who comes downstairs in the morning (afternoon and evening) DEMANDING things or with a single-minded focus on doing something? You rightfully and reasonably say no to their request and it sets off a huge power struggle, meltdowns, constant arguing, throwing things and words around. How can you handle these situations without losing your mind or your relationship? Kirk shows you how.
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| 1:04.1 | So do you have a child who comes in the kitchen in the morning or greet you when you get home in |
| 1:09.1 | the afternoon demanding something or they're |
| 1:11.9 | where they've got this single-minded focus that they're going to do something and they don't walk in |
| 1:16.9 | and ask they just start doing it so you rightfully and reasonably say no to their request and then |
| 1:24.8 | it sets off a huge power struggle meltdowns constant arguing throwing things |
| 1:29.5 | throwing words around so how can you handle these situations without losing your mind or your |
| 1:36.0 | relationship that is what we're going to discuss on today's episode of the calm parentic podcast |
| 1:40.9 | so welcome this is kirk martin founder of celebrate calm you can find us at Celebrate Calm.com. Two quick notes. We are still enjoying our son's wedding and extended |
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| 1:54.7 | issues you're encountering. And here's an unexpected benefit to that. Just last night, a couple |
| 2:00.7 | from the Netherlands emailed and said, hey, we were thinking about emailing you about these two issues. |
| 2:05.8 | But instead, we listened to the stop sibling fights and stop battles over screens programs. |
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