So your child is being resistant to doing something they don't like or something they don't want to do.

And naturally, you get impatient.

Your child then winds and complains and takes a long time doing what you ask.

So you get irritated and the scene turns into a shouting match

with big emotions, slamming doors.

So on this episode, the Calm Parenting Podcast, I want to give you a different idea something counterintuitive and I want you to see if it works

So that's what we're going to discuss. Thank you for joining us. My name is Kirk Martin, founder of CelebrateCallum.com.

If you need help, reach out to us. Email our son Casey, C-A-S-E-Y at Celebrate Callum.

Tell us about your family, ages of the kids, what are you struggling with,

we get together as a family, we talk about it,

we will reply back to you per- very quickly,

and usually we try to give you very practical ideas to help because that's what we do.

So here's the scene. I was working with this really great family and talking to this dad

whose child has pandas or pans, P-A-N-D-A-S or P-A-N-S.

And I encourage you to just look that up sometime.

And I'm simplifying this, but it's an autoimmune disorder that triggers O. C. D. symptoms or ticks after a strep infection.

And whenever parents are telling me about their kids exhibiting ticks or O. C.

O. C. D. Tendencies, I recommend that they look up pandas.

And I mention this because it occurs fairly frequently among our kids

and many doctors don't recognize it at all.

So it goes undiagnosed, which is sad because it's easily

treatable with pretty good success.

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