Kids Who Complain, Relatives Who Judge, Parents Who Are Overwhelmed #496
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Do you ever get judged by relatives because your strong-willed child doesn’t behave the right way? What do you say when kids are bored or complain the entire time? How can you be free from constantly being responsible for everyone else’s happiness and trust your own instincts? How can you get grandparents and relatives to be constructive instead of judgmental? Kirk provides concrete strategies and scripts in this special episode.
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| 1:04.1 | Do you ever get judged by relatives because your strong-willed child doesn't behave the right |
| 1:09.8 | way? How can you prepare your kids for the unknowns of family vacation? What do you say when kids are bored or complain the entire time? How can you get grandparents and relatives to be constructive instead of judgmental? That is what we're going to discuss on today's episode of the Calm Parenting |
| 1:27.7 | Podcast. So welcome. This is Kirk Martin, founder of Celebrate Calm. And you can find us in our |
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| 1:37.2 | are enjoying our father's son hiking trip together. And this is a once in a lifetime dream for me. |
| 1:41.8 | So thank you. Family vacation means your kids are going to be |
| 1:45.5 | off their schedule. They're going to be exhausted and overwhelmed. They're going to be eating |
| 1:49.9 | awful food. They're going to have massive tantrums and meltdowns right in front of your family |
| 1:55.8 | members who have the perfect children and you're going to get judged. Doesn't it sound awesome? So I want to make |
| 2:03.1 | this different. So this is a special kind of last minute bonus podcast episode for a couple |
| 2:08.6 | special Instagram families about to dive into a week-long family vacation. So forgive me if this |
| 2:14.6 | isn't polished. But hopefully you can apply these principles to managing |
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