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Calm Parenting Podcast

Stop Power Struggles Without Breaking Your Child’s Spirit

Calm Parenting Podcast

Kirk Martin

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

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Stop Power Struggles Without Breaking Your Child’s Spirit 

When you try to change another person’s behavior, you become frustrated because they don’t change quickly enough or the right way; they become frustrated because they can never change enough to satisfy you; and it never works! So how can you stop the power struggles without changing your child’s very nature or breaking his spirit?


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1:04.3

Almost all of us as parents make the same critical mistake. We get hyper-focused on changing our kids' outward behavior.

1:13.5

And when you try to change another person's behavior, look, and this could be your spouse,

1:18.4

could be your kid, it could be even societally through laws. Three things usually happen.

1:23.6

One, you become very frustrated when that other person doesn't change number two

1:29.9

they become frustrated because they can never change enough to satisfy you and

1:35.0

thirdly it never works so everyone ends up more frustrated and it still

1:42.4

doesn't change behavior because you haven't gotten to the root

1:46.5

of it.

1:47.5

And I want to show you how to go beyond just trying to change outward behavior to actually

1:53.5

giving kids tools to coming alongside and actually working with your child's nature instead

2:00.0

of fighting it all the time because that's when

2:03.3

we stop all these power struggles so that's what we're going to talk about on today's episode of the

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