Stop Lying & Stealing. Help for Adopted Kids. Alternatives to Spanking? #465
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 23 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).
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| 1:03.9 | So a couple approached me after one of our live events and asked me this. |
| 1:07.9 | Dad said, hey, we had four $100 bills in a cupboard after selling |
| 1:12.3 | something and then noticed that three of the bills were missing. Our daughter informed us that |
| 1:18.2 | she had seen the missing money in our son's room. Now, I played like I didn't know. I got down |
| 1:24.1 | at my son's eye level and I asked him if he had taken the money and he denied it. |
| 1:29.3 | So I then placed him over by me to give him a spanking and he confessed. |
| 1:34.0 | And I admit that I was kind of irritated that he lied to my face and then that kind of breaks our trust. |
| 1:39.8 | So I gave him an extra spanking. |
| 1:42.1 | What would you have done differently in this situation? |
| 1:45.9 | That is what we're going to discuss on today's episode of the Calm Parenting Podcast. |
| 1:49.8 | So welcome. This is Kirk Martin founder of Celebrate Calm. You can find us and our big spring |
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