Tough Discipline Your Kids Will Respect (Without Being Mean) #455
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Tough Discipline Your Kids Will Respect (Without Being Mean) #455
What can you do if your kids aren’t listening to you or taking you seriously? What if your kids are late, defy you, won’t do their chores, or get off screens? How can you be tough without being mean or making it personal? Kirk gives you actual scripts to use in the toughest situations. Get dozens of scripts and an action plan with our Black Friday Sale in March at https://celebratecalm.com/black-friday/
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| 1:01.0 | So what can you do if your kids simply are not listening to you or taking you seriously? |
| 1:06.6 | How can you be tough without being mean or making it personal? What if your kids are late, |
| 1:12.7 | defy you, won't do their chores or get off screens? That is what we're going to discuss on |
| 1:17.3 | today's episode of the Calm Parenting podcast. So welcome. This is Kirk Martin, founder, Celebrate |
| 1:21.2 | Calm. And you can find us and our Black Friday sale in March at Celebrate Calm.com. |
| 1:27.4 | So when I mentioned the word discipline, |
| 1:29.6 | what feeling does that word evoke in you? For many of us, it's a negative connotation with |
| 1:35.8 | thoughts of an upset or angry parent, yelling or spanking, sending kids to their room. Oftentimes, |
| 1:42.8 | it spouses struggling to be on the same page, and that causes |
| 1:46.3 | a lot of tension. A lot of us don't even want to discuss discipline because then it brings up reminders |
| 1:52.1 | of being judged by our parents or family members or church who insist discipline means one particular |
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