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Calm Parenting Podcast

Why Won’t My Kids Just Do What I Ask?! #438

Calm Parenting Podcast

Kirk Martin

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

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Why Won’t My Kids Just Do What I Ask?!

It's not like you are asking your kids to do anything unreasonable or hard! And yet they resist you. How can we get our kids to actually be responsible for themselves without the power struggles? Kirk shows you exactly how with some powerful scripts that may change your relationship with your strong-willed child…and their behavior.


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off. So do you ever get frustrated and just think like, why won't my kids just do what I ask

1:10.2

them to do? It's not like I'm asking them

1:13.0

anything unreasonable or to do anything that is that hard. It's like I do half the stuff for

1:18.6

them anyway. It's not like we fought our parents like this when we were kids. And why do they

1:24.5

have to fight me all the time? Why can't you just do what I ask them to do?

1:29.2

Well, of course you have those feelings because you have a strong-willed child, and that's very

1:34.8

normal. So on today's episode of the Calm Parenting Podcast, I want to give you some tools

1:39.9

so you can actually release your kids to do what they need to do, but without you badgering them

1:47.0

and micromanaging them and ruining your relationship with them. So, this is Kirk Martin,

1:51.6

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