Quick Tips for Dads Ep. 3: Discipline Without Drama
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Your kids and wife won't respect you if you give consequences you can't actually enforce. Learn a different way to handle tough discipline without yelling or drama. Bonus tip? I show you how to teach kids impulse control and delayed gratification on screens.
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| 1:05.6 | So how do we discipline without drama? How do we discipline in such a way that it actually causes our kids to respect us more? And it actually works. That's what we're going to talk about on this episode of the Quick Tips for Dad's series. So welcome. This is Kirk Martin, Founder Celebrate Calm. So let's jump into this men. And I know there are many wives listening as well. So welcome to you as |
| 1:29.3 | well. So look, remember discipline means to teach. To teach by modeling. It means to show kids a different |
| 1:37.7 | way to handle things. It's more about problem solving. Guys, when we're at work and we've got, say, a younger colleague or someone |
| 1:46.0 | who messes up, hopefully we're not just going around yelling at them like, go to your cubicle. |
| 1:51.6 | No, we're pulling them aside and we're teaching and showing them a different way to do their job |
| 1:57.5 | to get better results. It's not about punishing, sending kids to their room. It's |
| 2:02.0 | not about using fear and intimidation. So here's the one thing I want you and I to stop doing. |
| 2:08.7 | And I was guilty of this for a long time. Stop just barking consequences at your kids that you |
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