Parents with Big Emotions: 5 Responses When Kids Push Your Buttons.
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Parents with Big Emotions: 5 Responses When Kids Push Your Buttons.
We’ve been talking about how to help kids with big emotions. But what about when WE as parents have big emotions, react, and yell? Especially when kids push your buttons? Kirk shows you how to stop reacting and take back control of these situations. Get practical tools with our BIG SALE right now at https://celebratecalm.com.
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| 1:04.1 | Do you have a child who is an expert button pusher? Like, naturally gifted at it, and it usually |
| 1:10.6 | provokes a reaction from you or your spouse, |
| 1:13.5 | but that almost always ends up spiraling out of control and we escalate. So how do you handle |
| 1:19.8 | your own big emotions and stop reacting? That is what we are going to discuss on this episode |
| 1:26.3 | of the Calm Parenting Podcast. |
| 1:28.1 | So welcome. |
| 1:26.5 | This is Kirk Martin, founder, Celebrate Calm.com. You can find us at CelebrateCalm.com. If you need help, reach out to our son Casey, C-A-S-C-E-Y, at Celebrate Calm.com. Tell us what you're struggling with. We'll respond to you, help you out. And we have a big sale. We've got this big emotion series and we've got a big sale. |
| 1:45.5 | Take advantage of our resources because you can break these patterns now once and for all. |
| 1:51.6 | So this continues our series in which we've been talking about kids with big emotions. But I wanted |
| 1:57.0 | to take a break and talk about parents with big, right? |
| 2:01.0 | Talk about parents with big emotions. |
| 2:02.6 | So next week I'm going to give you practical tools to handle holidays with big emotions. |
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