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Calm Parenting Podcast

Stop Anxiety, Perfectionism & Controlling People’s Emotions

Calm Parenting Podcast

Kirk Martin

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Social Sciences, Science, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Stop Anxiety, Perfectionism & Controlling People’s Emotions Have you noticed that your anxiety as a parent actually backfires and causes the exact opposite response you want from your kids? When you try to rush them, they move more slowly! When you push, they resist even more. When you lecture to motivate them, they shut down. So how can you break this cycle of frustration, stop trying to make everyone happy, and let go of perfectionism? Kirk shows you how. Our New Year's Sale Begins NOW: You get everything we have ever recorded delivered directly to an app on your iPhone, iPad, Android, or computer. Listen anywhere, anytime. You get 35 hours of practical strategies and concrete examples, along with multiple PDF workbooks. Make 2024 different. Click here to learn more and take advantage of our New Year's Sale: https://celebratecalm.com/calm-2024 Go to https://www.HelloFresh.com/calmfree and use code calmfree for FREE breakfast for life! One breakfast item per box while subscription is active. Get your kids something they will actually LOVE, use, and look forward to getting all throughout the coming year. Build your child’s confidence NOW! Visit https://crunchlabs.com/CALM and get your kids CrunchLabs today! A Revolutionary Baby Monitor is Born. Visit https://www.masimostork.com/ to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.6

Moms and dads being a parent is stressful. This modern day life we live causes a lot of anxiety right and it starts first thing in the morning when your son doesn't want to get out of bed you get anxious that he's going to ask you to stay home yet again and miss another day of school and your daughter won't eat. Is she going to be unhealthy? What if she gets sick?

0:19.6

Your son's worn the same hoodie sweatshirt for 13 days in a row.

0:23.6

What are the other parents and teachers going to think about you as a mother?

0:27.0

And your daughter won't brush her teeth or her hair.

0:29.9

And as you're rushing out the door, she remembers, one final thing she just has to do before she leaves,

0:35.2

and you're sitting out the driveway honking the horn, right, waking the neighbors up.

0:39.5

Great, now there's a traffic jam. You're going to be late. So you grip the wheel a little tighter, you ride the guy's bumper ahead of you,

0:46.1

your tents. And your kids are trying to talk to you.

0:48.8

But you snap back because you're still upset about their dodling, right? We'll talk about this tonight.

0:55.2

You snap as you drop your kids off to school. Now you feel guilty, right? Because now you got to rush to work.

1:00.8

You're afraid your boss is going to be mad at you again. Your mother's

1:03.7

pressuring you to visit for the holidays but you don't really want to go. You're

1:07.4

getting the usual guilt trips and you'll probably give in, right? And then the

1:11.2

PTA and Church Committee keep asking you to volunteer they need to help after all and you're the responsible one and what about the Johnson's kids they're taking piano and extra language after school if they can do, why can't your kids sit on screens all

1:26.1

the time? You vowed that you guys wouldn't do that and now your whole family is just

1:30.8

kind of addicted to screens all the time. What if you're not

1:33.4

doing enough for them? What if they can't get into the right prep school? Will you be

1:37.2

a failure as a parent? Heck you're not sure whether you're going to need that

1:40.1

money for college or bail, giving your son's behavior? Oh that's right, you don't have that. that money

1:45.0

set aside for college anyway.

1:47.0

The braces, the new roof, summer camp therapy, and car repairs have eaten away at that.

1:52.0

Right in your house never seems clean enough. Why can't your kids

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