Self-Centered Child? Unfair With Siblings, Does Minimal Work & No Chores?
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Self-Centered Child? Unfair With Siblings, Does Minimal Work & No Chores
Your strong-willed kids are NOT going to do things your way. You are NOT going to change their nature. They will choose the harder path and touch the hot stove. It will make you uncomfortable and siblings will say it’s unfair. Kirk gives you scripts and actions steps to stop the battles and motivate your kids.
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| 1:04.1 | Your strong will child is not going to do things your way, and you are not going to change your child's nature your child is going to |
| 1:14.6 | choose the harder path and touch the hot stove it's just the way they're made and either you can |
| 1:21.2 | either keep fighting your child or accept this is the child you've been given and you can try a different way. Now many of you come from |
| 1:30.7 | one of two places. Perhaps you're the naturally compliant person who grew up following rules. |
| 1:37.1 | This is tough for you because when someone asks you to do something, your natural instinct is, |
| 1:43.1 | well, you just do it. Why is that so hard? But our strong |
| 1:47.2 | well child's first instinct is to ask why and choose a harder path. And you've noticed this. |
| 1:54.3 | They'll even make it harder on themselves, right? They'll choose this and be like, it would |
| 1:58.0 | be so much easier if you would just do what I asked you to do |
| 2:02.7 | and you will likely interpret much of what your child does as being defiant or rebellious or difficult |
| 2:10.2 | or maybe you were the strong will child yourself so you and your child are a lot alike and you can push each other's |
| 2:19.9 | buttons without even trying. And now you don't want your strong will child making the same mistakes |
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