Why Do Strong-Willed Kids Push Your Buttons?
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Why Do Strong-Willed Kids Push Your Buttons?
It’s a given. Your kids are going to push your buttons. They are going to irritate you. And you are going to react. And make things worse. So how do you stop reacting when your kids talk back, dawdle, roll their eyes, slouch, refuse to do homework, do nothing but text or play video games?
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| 1:57.0 | summer. It's a given moms and dads, your strong-willed children are going to push your |
| 2:03.1 | buttons. They're going to irritate you. And you're probably going to react and make things worse. |
| 2:08.8 | So how do you stop reacting when your kids talk back? They dawdle. They roll their eyes, slouts, |
| 2:14.0 | refuse to do their homework, do nothing but text or play video games. That's what we're going to talk about on today's episode of the Calm Parenthooding podcast. So welcome. This is Kirk Martin, founder of Celebrate Calm. You can find us at CelebrateCalm.com. If you need to help, reach out to our son, who was amazing at pushing our buttons because we had so many to push. But he will not do that to you. |
| 2:34.4 | Why? |
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