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Calm Parenting Podcast

You're Not Doing Anything Wrong! Why Isn't It Working? #471

Calm Parenting Podcast

Kirk Martin

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

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The normal parenting strategies don't work with strong-willed kids! You are doing all the things you are supposed to do. The time-outs, behavior charts, and taking away phones are not changing your kids' behavior--whether they are toddlers or teens or adopted. Kirk gives you specific action steps that DO work with kids of all ages. 


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off. If you have a strong will child, you will likely struggle with the following thoughts.

1:09.3

You're not doing anything wrong as a parent,

1:12.5

and yet it's just not working with the strong-willed child.

1:16.5

All the things that you're supposed to do, right,

1:19.7

like timeouts for toddlers, behavior charts for little kids,

1:25.8

taking away screens or driver's license or a phone with your

1:30.7

teenager. None of the traditional approaches will work with a strong world child. You're going to be

1:36.4

frustrated by that and feel guilty and you're going to be judged by other people. And that's why I

1:41.1

always encourage you. If you have a strong world child, do what works for

1:45.2

your family. And don't worry about what everybody else does because your family life is going to

1:50.4

look very, very different than other people. So I want to give you some tools to do it differently,

1:56.5

to do things that actually work from toddlers all the way through the teen years.

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