If you have a strong will child, you will likely struggle with the following thoughts. You're not

doing anything wrong as a parent, and yet it's just not working with the strong will child.

All the things that you're supposed to do, right, like timeouts for toddlers, behavior charts,

for little kids, taking away screens or driver's license

or a phone with your teenager.

None of the traditional approaches will work with a strong world child.

You're going to be frustrated by that and feel guilty and you're going to be judged by other

people.

And that's why I always encourage

you. If you have a strong will child, do what works for your family. And don't worry about what

everybody else does because your family life is going to look very, very different than other

people. So I want to give you some tools to do it differently, to do things that actually work from toddlers all the

way through the teen years. So that is what we're going to discuss 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.com. So I want to give a shout out to a couple that kind of inspired this podcast.

It's Ben and Elizabeth, and they've got two

strong will kids. And between the kids, there are all kinds of diagnoses from ADHD,

sensory processing disorder, ASD, PDA, not to mention many others like our son had. And so what they

wrote was, like, we have always felt like failures. And we're judged

by our family because we've been trying all the things we're supposed to. And yet none of it

works. And we've sent thousands of dollars on therapy. And Elizabeth said, I finally convinced

Ben to take advantage of your winter sale because it's like, we already spend thousands.

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