Summer Sanity: 6 Ways to Build Your Child's Confidence #493

Calm Parenting Podcast

Kirk Martin

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes the stress of the school year can strip your kids of their confidence and create conflict even with siblings. Kirk gives you 6 new, creative, and powerful strategies to rebuild your child's confidence, reconnect as a family, and help with screen dependence.

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0:00.0	So I bet I have a way for even reluctant teens and tweens to spend time with you.
0:05.4	Sit and better on the sofa, wrapped in the heavenly softness of the new cozy earth bubble cuddle
0:10.8	blanket. It is so ridiculously soft. Your toddlers, your teens, pets, even your spouse is going to
0:16.8	want to cuddle with you. And you will have the best talks all wrapped up together. We absolutely
0:23.7	love our bubble cuddle blanket because it's the perfect combination of style and comfort. Oh,
0:29.5	and your sensory kids, forget about it. They're going to try to steal the cozy earth bubble
0:33.7	cuddle blanket from your room. I'd have them do extra chores to buy their own, but then you
0:38.6	might not be able to get them out of bed. Look, your bed shouldn't just be a place to sleep. It should be
0:43.4	your happy place. Use the cozy earth bamboo sheets. We'd love those. And this new blanket,
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1:03.9	on instagram help us survive the summer what would you focus on over the summer and my answer
1:10.3	would come down to two things one i want to rebuild your family life and reconnect with your kids after a stressful school year. And I also want to build your child's confidence. Most of you with strong-willed, neurodivergent kids are in school for nine months out of the year and many of your kids they just aren't great
1:28.6	at doing school and the school system tends to expose all of your kids weaknesses all the stuff
1:34.2	they're not good at and they don't reward the things that your kids are good at well how do you
1:39.0	build confidence in life confidence comes from competence being good at. So I want to share six ideas with you.
1:48.0	I know you're not going to like probably three of them and those are the ones I want you to focus on more.
1:54.0	So number one, oh by the way, this is Kirk Martin Fowler Celebrate Calm. I didn't do my regular
1:59.7	thing and I'm not re-recording
2:01.1	this because I've struggled with this one and I'm practicing imperfection. So that is what we're
2:06.4	going to discuss on today's episode of the Calm Parenting podcast. So welcome. This is Kirk Martin
2:09.8	founder, Celebrate Calm. You can find us in the big summer sale at celebratecalm.com. So
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