Stop Lying & Stealing. Help for Adopted Kids. Alternatives to Spanking? #465

Calm Parenting Podcast

Kirk Martin

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

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Stop Lying & Stealing. Help for Adopted Kids. Alternatives to Spanking? #465 Most of our kids lie and you may be surprised why. Many of our kids—especially our adopted kids—steal. Kirk gives you creative strategies and scripts to stop the lying and stealing while building trust (without spanking or yelling). Visit https://celebratecalm.com/products to take advantage of our Spring Sale on The Get Everything Package. Get hundreds of practical strategies that really work with your strong-willed kids at 50% OFF of the normal price. AG1 AG1 is offering new subscribers a FREE $76 gift when you sign up. You’ll get a Welcome Kit, a bottle of D3 & K2 AND 5 free travel packs in your first box. Go to https://drinkag1.com/calm HAPPY MAMMOTH Get 15% off on your entire first order at https://HappyMammoth.com with the code CALM at checkout. COZY EARTH Wrap yourself and your kids in Cozy Earth luxury…with 40% OFF! Visit https://cozyearth.com/ and use my exclusive 40% off code CALM. IXL LEARNING Get an exclusive 20% off an IXL membership when you sign up today at https://IXL.com/KIRK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.7	So a couple approached me after one of our live events and asked me this.
1:14.0	Dad said, hey, we had four $100 bills in a cupboard after selling something and then noticed
1:19.8	that three of the bills were missing. Our daughter informed us that she had seen the missing
1:25.2	money in our son's room. Now Now I played like I didn't know.
1:29.3	I got down at my son's eye level and I asked him if he had taken the money and he denied it.
1:35.3	So I then placed him over my need to give him a spanking and he confessed.
1:40.3	And I admit that I was kind of irritated that he lied to my face and then that kind of breaks
1:45.1	our trust so I gave him an extra spanking. What would you have done differently in this situation?
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