When Kids Resist & Whine—Stop Trying to Make Everything Better
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
When Kids Resist & Whine—Stop Trying to Make Everything Better
Are you tired of feeling like you have to “make everything better” for your child or fix your child’s attitude? Are you tired of the complaining and whining and power struggles over simple requests? Kirk gives you two action steps to stop the negativity.
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| 1:58.0 | Isn't it irritating when you revolve your life around your kids and you try to do all |
| 2:03.0 | kinds of fun things with them and they resist you or you just ask them to do simple things and they |
| 2:09.6 | don't want to do it or you need to take them someplace and they just won't go and it devolves into |
| 2:16.4 | this whole argument you lecturing and trying to convince them and pleading and they're whining and complaining, that's not what you signed up for as a parent, but it's part of your everyday life. And so it's frustrating. And I know back in the day when we had kids at our home, we'd have these camps where we'd have 8 10 15 strong |
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