School Struggles? 8 Weird Ideas To Improve Focus, Motivation, Homework & Writing
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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School Struggles? 8 Weird Ideas To Improve Focus, Motivation, Homework & Writing
It's not shocking to me that your kids are struggling with focus, attention, executive function, writing assignments, anxiety and more. That means power struggles over homework, kids shutting down in the classroom, and kids internalizing “I’m stupid” or “something is wrong with me.” Let’s fix that now. Kirk shares 8 weird ideas you can try today to motivate your kids and help them feel confident. Learn more at https://celebratecalm.com
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| 1:01.3 | It's not shocking to me that your kids are struggling with focus, attention, executive function, writing assignments, anxiety, and more. |
| 1:08.8 | So that means almost daily power struggles over homework, |
| 1:11.7 | kids shutting down in the classroom, right, when the work gets difficult and they get kind of |
| 1:16.0 | overwhelmed. And some of your kids will begin to feel like they're stupid or something is |
| 1:21.1 | wrong with me. And we don't want that. So in this episode of the Calm Parenting Podcast, I want to |
| 1:26.0 | give you about 10 kind of different weird ideas to improve focus and homework time. And I hope this will help you. So welcome. This is Kirk Martin founder, Celebrate Calm.com. You can find us at Celebrate Calm.com. If you need help, reach out to our son Casey, C-A-S-E-Y at Celebrate Calm.com. And I'm going to reference Casey quite a bit in this podcast because |
| 1:44.2 | these are all things that we learned both with Casey through there's a lot of science and research |
| 1:49.5 | behind some of these ideas and in working with almost a million families, right? You start to |
| 1:54.8 | learn some different weird ideas and so I want to share those if you need to help reach out to |
| 1:58.6 | that kid, our son Casey at CelebrateComum.com. |
| 2:01.9 | Tell us about your family, ages of the kids. What are you struggling with? We'll get back to you personally because this is what we do. It's our family mission. If you need help with anything, setting up a live workshop, getting any of our materials. If you need help financially, just reach out to Casey. So let's do a quick recap of why your kids are likely struggling. |
| 2:01.5 | Some of it is that their brains don't always... financially, just reach out to Casey. So let's do a quick recap of why your kids are likely |
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