When Your Child Provokes You: 3 Ways to Stop Reacting
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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When Your Child Provokes You: 3 Ways to Stop Reacting
Your child is an expert at pushing your buttons. And it’s even worse when you are tired, irritated and anxious. THAT creates even more power struggles. So how can you stop these power struggles with your kids AND not feel so stressed and irritated? Kirk gives you three strategies from our flagship 30 Days to Calm Program to begin implementing today.
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| 0:00.0 | Moms and dad, you're also busy running your kids everywhere, working, completing a thousand to one tasks, that you don't always have the energy for extra self-care activities. |
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| 1:02.5 | off. Have you ever noticed that when you're in a rush or you're on edge or a little bit irritable, |
| 1:09.5 | your tone changes and your child picks up on that |
| 1:12.7 | and then you have more power struggles. That's why it's so critical to learn how to control yourself, |
| 1:17.4 | control your own anxiety. Otherwise, it creates like this powder keg of constant explosions. |
| 1:23.4 | So that's what we're going to discuss on today's episode of the Calm Parenting podcast. |
| 1:27.9 | So welcome. |
| 1:28.3 | This is Kirk Martin, founder of Celebrate Calm. You can find us at Celebrate Calm.com. If you need to help, reach out to Casey, our son. C-A-S-C-E-Y, celebrate-Calm.com. Tell us about your family, ages, the kids. What are you struggling with? Look, tell me what your triggers are. because that's part of what we go through a lot in this is |
| 1:26.4 | trying to figure out what your triggers are |
| 1:28.4 | and then developing a different risk me what your triggers are because that's part of what we go through a lot in this is, is trying |
| 1:45.0 | to figure out what your triggers are and then developing a different response to those instead |
| 1:49.5 | of always reacting to them. |
| 1:51.8 | And I promise we'll get back to you usually pretty quickly. |
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