Quick Tips for Dads Ep. 8: How to Motivate Undisciplined or Lazy Kids Not Living Up to Their Potential
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Your kids saunter into the room, heads in their phones. They appear so lazy and undisciplined. They are not living up to their potential and you worry about their future. How can you motivate these kids without instigating a power struggle so they actually listen? **Our Christmas Sale continues this week! Take advantage of the lowest prices of the year and give the gift of CALM to your family. Visit https://celebratecalm.com/christmas-clearance/ to learn more. Email Casey@CelebrateCalm.com with any questions.**
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| 1:02.5 | So how do you handle it when your kids just appear so lazy and unmotivated? Like when they're not |
| 1:09.9 | living up to their potential. Look, I think every |
| 1:13.0 | father on the planet struggles with this because you know what it takes to be successful in life, |
| 1:17.8 | but you don't see your child exhibiting those traits right now and so you project into the |
| 1:22.0 | future out of your own anxiety and you think who would possibly marry this child, who's going |
| 1:26.0 | to hire this child. So I want to give you some tools and scripts to use in this episode of quick tips for dads. |
| 1:33.0 | And hello to the moms as well. |
| 1:34.4 | This will work for you also. |
| 1:37.0 | So what happens is our parental anxiety kicks in. |
| 1:41.8 | We're like, oh, my child just needs to apply himself or herself, |
| 1:46.0 | which is very unmotivating, by the way. So drop that line. And then we begin to lecture and point |
| 1:52.0 | out all the things they're not doing well. And we say you're not living up to your potential. |
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