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So do you have kids who appear lazy in school who pick on their siblings?

They refuse to accept responsibility.

They blame others.

Won't push through when things get hard.

Sometimes they act out aggressively or even self-sabotage.

You're not alone. And I want you to know most of these behaviors are not even behavior issues. They are confidence and motivation issues.

So how can we change this? I want to give you five ideas that you can begin implementing over

the holiday break. So that is what we're going

to discuss on today's Christmas episode of the Calm Parenting Podcast. So welcome, this is Kirk Martin.

You can find us in our Christmas sale at Celebrate Calm.com. So I mentioned that, that most of these

behavior issues, they don't really have anything to do with behavior. Internally, they're about a

child who doesn't have confidence or motivation. So think about this. Kids who feel kind of like

the black sheep in the family, they're always in trouble. Well, they're naturally going to take out

their resentment on the good sibling that they can't measure up against.

It's not a sibling issue. That's a confidence issue. Kids who struggle in school and shut

down. They're not usually lazy kids. They're just not motivated. See, those are two different things.

Because you've seen this. When your child is motivated and it's usually

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