Tough Teens & Tweens 101: Motivation, Screens, School Refusal, Defiance and More
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Tough Teens & Tweens 101: Motivation, Screens, School Refusal, Defiance and More
Do you have an unmotivated teen or tween who battles you over homework and screens? Who refuses to go to school, struggles with confidence, has shut down or become defiant? In this hard-hitting episode, Kirk gives you strategies to rebuild your teen's confidence and relationship; spark internal motivation and get off screens; overcome anxiety, homework struggles, ADHD, and apathy.
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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. |
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| 1:01.2 | So do you have a teen or tween who is kind of shut down? Maybe very unmotivated, apathetic. |
| 1:08.5 | Maybe you have a teen or tween who's refusing to go to school. Maybe it's a really |
| 1:12.9 | defiant teen who's lashing out. And of course, we've got a lot of teens and tweens who are really |
| 1:18.7 | just absorbed into their screens. So on this special episode of the Calm Parenting Podcast, |
| 1:25.5 | I want to give you some tools to help with these teens and tweens because it's a tough |
| 1:29.6 | age and it's a really important time and you still have an opportunity to rebuild a relationship, |
| 1:35.9 | to rebuild this child from the inside out, to find out what they care about so that you can |
| 1:40.8 | motivate them from the inside out. |
| 1:43.8 | So that's what we're going to discuss on this |
| 1:46.1 | episode of the Calm Parenting podcast. Welcome. This is Kirk Martin. Founder Celebrate Calm. You can find |
| 1:51.3 | us, celebrate Calm.com. If you need help with anything, reach out to our formerly unmotivated, |
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