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Calm Parenting Podcast

Moody Child Who Blames YOU? 5 Ways to Avoid Emotional Collisions #469

Calm Parenting Podcast

Kirk Martin

Relationships, Education, Parenting, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Moody Child Who Blames YOU? 5 Ways to Avoid Emotional Collisions #467

You have a child who is moody and disrespectful. You tell her that attitude is not tolerated in your home. She keeps coming at you. You try staying calm, but eventually everyone ends up yelling and you impose consequences. She then blames you for her attitude. How can you stop this vicious cycle? Kirk gives you five specific action steps and a script.


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off. So you have a child who is moody and then gets disrespectful. And you let her know,

1:09.7

hey, that attitude is not going to be tolerated

1:11.7

in our home. But she keeps coming at you and you try staying calm. But eventually everybody

1:18.6

ends up yelling and you impose consequences, which is your right to do. But the relationship

1:24.6

gets strained. And then your child blames you for her attitude so how can you

1:31.5

stop this vicious cycle that is what we're going to discuss on today's episode of the calm

1:37.4

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1:45.9

So this good mom and dad emailed about this situation, and they were very descriptive of what happens in their home.

1:55.5

And they wrote this, when she gets in these moods, she will us but it is ultimately her initial outward defiance

2:06.6

that starts the train down the track very true moms and dads so my first thought was one

2:14.6

very good for identifying this it's her initial outward defiance and we're

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