Q&A: 5 Odd Answers To Tough Questions #481
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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How do you motivate kids to do tasks without reminding them 18 times...or do uncomfortable things without arguing every single day? What should you do when a child defies you, disregards your instructions, doesn't do school work or go to sports practice? Should you force your teenager to go on family vacation? Kirk's answers may surprise you and give you ideas for handling your toughest situations.
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| 1:04.0 | How do you get your kids to do their chores without having to repeat yourself and remind them |
| 1:09.4 | 18 times? What do you do when a child flat out defies you and disregard your instructions? |
| 1:15.9 | What should you do when your child doesn't do their homework or go to their sports practice? |
| 1:21.7 | Should we force a teenager to go on family vacation? How do we get a child to do uncomfortable things without arguing about it |
| 1:30.7 | every single day? That is what we're going to talk about on today's episode of the Calm |
| 1:35.8 | Parenting podcast. So welcome. This is Kirk Martin, founder of Celebrate Calm. And you can find us at |
| 1:40.9 | celebratecalm.com. And this is the final few days of the extended mother's day |
| 1:45.2 | sale. So I don't like to give the standard answers to questions because they tend not to work |
| 1:50.8 | with strong will kids. The standard answers tend to backfire. How many of you had a more |
| 1:56.9 | compliant child first and you're like, wow, we are such good parents. And then you had the strong will child. You're like wow we are such good parents and then you had the strong |
| 2:02.6 | well child you're like we don't know anything anymore so i want to share a few odd answers in order to |
| 2:09.5 | inspire you to think differently to challenge your assumptions and experiment doing it in a different |
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