How I Almost Ruined My Relationship With My Son
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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How I Almost Ruined My Relationship With My Son
One of the big turning points for me was hearing my son say, “I feel like I can never please you. I feel like I constantly disappoint you.” You have an opportunity to avoid the same mistakes I made. Learn how to motivate kids in ways that build their confidence and competence.
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| 1:04.3 | So here's one of the ways that I almost destroyed my relationship with Casey. It was little stuff. |
| 1:10.1 | Casey would do something not up to my standards, |
| 1:12.6 | and because I had control issues and I know how things are supposed to be, |
| 1:16.6 | and you do everything with excellent, son, |
| 1:18.6 | and how are you ever going to be successful in life if you can't follow through on simple instructions? |
| 1:22.6 | It just seemed like I was never happy with him. |
| 1:24.6 | And nothing I just said was false or wrong it's just that it isn't |
| 1:29.0 | motivating it doesn't work it destroys a kid so Casey would disappoint me which wasn't hard |
| 1:34.4 | and I'd stand a few feet away and just slowly shake my head in disappointment just that small |
| 1:42.6 | little body posture subtly shaking my head in disappointment. |
| 1:47.9 | And I thought I was communicating, hey, your dad's disappointed. You should do it a different way. |
| 1:52.9 | Do better. And what Casey told me a few years later was this, dad, all I felt was demeaned, |
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