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🗓️ 23 April 2025
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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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0:00.0 | If you have a strong will child, you will likely struggle with the following thoughts. You're not |
0:05.8 | doing anything wrong as a parent, and yet it's just not working with the strong will child. |
0:12.6 | All the things that you're supposed to do, right, like timeouts for toddlers, behavior charts, |
0:20.4 | for little kids, taking away screens or driver's license |
0:25.7 | or a phone with your teenager. |
0:27.8 | None of the traditional approaches will work with a strong world child. |
0:32.0 | You're going to be frustrated by that and feel guilty and you're going to be judged by other |
0:35.7 | people. |
0:36.7 | And that's why I always encourage |
0:37.8 | you. If you have a strong will child, do what works for your family. And don't worry about what |
0:43.3 | everybody else does because your family life is going to look very, very different than other |
0:48.7 | people. So I want to give you some tools to do it differently, to do things that actually work from toddlers all the |
0:55.9 | way through the teen years. So that is what we're going to discuss on today's episode of the Calm |
0:59.5 | Parenting podcast. So welcome. This is Kirk Martin founder of Celebrate Calm. You can find us at |
1:03.6 | celebrate calm.com. So I want to give a shout out to a couple that kind of inspired this podcast. |
1:10.3 | It's Ben and Elizabeth, and they've got two |
1:11.9 | strong will kids. And between the kids, there are all kinds of diagnoses from ADHD, |
1:17.6 | sensory processing disorder, ASD, PDA, not to mention many others like our son had. And so what they |
1:24.8 | wrote was, like, we have always felt like failures. And we're judged |
1:28.6 | by our family because we've been trying all the things we're supposed to. And yet none of it |
1:33.5 | works. And we've sent thousands of dollars on therapy. And Elizabeth said, I finally convinced |
1:39.1 | Ben to take advantage of your winter sale because it's like, we already spend thousands. |
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