How to De-Escalate A Nuclear Meltdown & Stop The Shame Cycle
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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How to De-Escalate A Nuclear Meltdown & Stop The Shame Cycle
Plans go awry, your child gets disappointed or doesn’t get his way. He begins getting upset. Rational talk doesn’t work. Nothing does. Now he’s in full meltdown mode and doesn’t hold back. How do you stop this cycle of shame and escalation? Kirk gives a very practical and creative strategy to use. This is incredibly important.
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| 1:01.2 | So something goes awry and your child who can't handle disappointment well doesn't like changes and plans begins to melt down. |
| 1:09.8 | He's angry, frustrated, disappointment, and nothing's working. |
| 1:14.4 | You try rational talk. |
| 1:16.0 | He gets more upset and says really disrespectful things or lashes out or throws something |
| 1:22.2 | and breaks it. |
| 1:23.2 | And that's over the line. |
| 1:24.5 | So naturally you say, well, because you just lashed out or threw that and broke |
| 1:28.4 | that, you're going to lose your sleepover with your best friend or you lose car privileges for the next |
| 1:35.4 | three days and then your child really loses it. So how do you prevent this? How can we |
| 1:42.2 | handle this situation differently? I want to give you a really |
| 1:45.1 | cool strategy to use. And that's what we're going to discuss on this special Mother's Day edition |
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