What It Feels Like to Be A Sensitive, Strong-Willed Child #486

Calm Parenting Podcast

Kirk Martin

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

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Your strong-willed kids experience childhood differently than other kids. Sometimes it’s hard to really understand. There’s no instruction manual for these kids. This episode will give you much-needed, rare insight into how to help your kids feel confident and good about themselves. We encourage you to let your kids listen to parts of this episode to prompt helpful conversations.

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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
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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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0:56.0	that's cozy earth.com code calm for 40% off i wonder if you can hear your strong will child saying
1:04.6	something like this i'm so confused sometimes when i was a little kid i would hear you telling
1:10.7	your friends how you loved my curiosity that I loved to explore and never stopped talking and asking questions.
1:17.2	Dad said that with all that energy, I would move mountains and he was constantly building things with me so I could use my hands and put things together and take things apart.
1:26.7	But now I'm in school and I get in trouble
1:29.3	for all of these same traits. I'm still the same kid doing the same things you loved when I was
1:36.4	little. But now I'm the bad kid and it feels like everyone is trying to change who I am and I don't
1:43.5	understand. This is how I was born. It's how I've
1:48.0	always been. I thought it was good, that I was good. And now I discover that people aren't happy with my
1:55.8	energy and curiosity and fidgeting asking questions. What happened? What did I do wrong? I want you to let that
2:04.7	sink in. And I know the counter arguments, you can't always do certain things in different settings
2:09.2	and you have to adapt. But really think about this from a kid's point of view because their
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