It's a given, moms and dads, your strong-willed children are going to push your buttons.

They're going to irritate you, and you're probably going to react and make things worse.

So how do you stop reacting when your kids talk back? They

dawdle, they roll their eyes, slouch, 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 Parenting Podcast.

So welcome, this is Kirk Martin, founder of Celebrate Calm.

You can find us at Celebrate Calm.

If you need help, reach out to our son who was amazing at pushing our buttons because we had so many to push, but he will notA-S-E-Y at Celebrate Calm.com. Tell us about your family,

ages of the kids, what do you struggle with? We talk about it as a family. We reply to

usually very quickly with very practical strategies because that's what we do.

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So we also have spring sale going on so get to everything package boom less than a trip to a therapist office and you learn exactly how to do this so why do strong will kids push your buttons and how do you stop that?

So I'm going to give you three reasons and three different strategies.

So number one, Strong Will Kids will push your buttons because we have so many buttons to push as parents.

Right? No blame, no guilt, just be honest. We are filled with buttons. If we didn't have all those buttons to push and all those triggers, your kids couldn't trigger you. So number one let's

always work on our stuff first work on our own triggers and look there's no

blame or no guilt we all have triggers probably from childhood, stuff you learned as a kid,

ways of coping with things. And some of us, we need a lot of order and structure, we're kind of control freaks,

and some of us have a lot of anxiety because worried about the future and so when our child

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