Calm Parenting Podcast

By Kirk Martin

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What's Calm Parenting Podcast about?

Have a strong-willed child who doesn't respond to consequences, argues like an attorney, and refuses to do things your way? Good! You're in the right place. Celebrate Calm Founder Kirk Martin has given over 600,000 parents and teachers around the world practice, life-changing strategies to stop power struggles, yelling, and defiance NOW.

Based on work with 1,500 challenging kids (many with AD/HD, OCD, ODD, Aspergers, etc.) in his home, and years spent in classrooms, Kirk's approach is refreshingly practical, honest, and laugh-out-loud funny! Questions? Visit us at www.CelebrateCalm.com or email us directly at [email protected]

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Disappoint Your Kids on Pur...

11.29.2021

Disappoint Your Kids on Purpose One of the most loving discipline tools is saying no (not all the time!) so your kids learn that they have the internal resources necessary to handle disappointment in life. Kirk shows you how to ...

Calm Parenting Podcast episodes:

11.29.2021 Disappoint Your Kids on Purpose Disappoint Your Kids on Purpose One of the most loving discipline tools is saying no (not all the time!) so your kids learn that they have the internal resources necessary to handle disappointment in life. Kirk shows you how to ...
11.24.2021 5 Ways To Survive Thanksgiving with Family You have kids with lots of energy, whose routine is thrown off, who may not want to interact with relatives or eat what everyone else does. Your family doesn't understand your kids and judges you. Your spouse is a perfectionist ...
11.21.2021 Do What Works, Even If It’s Weird We had 1,500 kids in our home (camps). They did odd things, but we learned how to use that to help them calm down, do homework, sleep better, get ready for school more quickly, and just be happier. This is ...
11.18.2021 Old School Parenting Outdated? Not In These 2 Ways. Old School Parenting Outdated? Not In These 2 Ways. Old school parenting was about respect—but ultimately how our parents respected us enough to give us space to learn from mistakes. Kirk shows you how to apply the best of the ...
11.15.2021 Why Your Kids Aren’t Listening or Progressing Why Your Kids Aren’t Listening or Progressing Frustrated that your kids aren't progressing or listening to you? Of course you are. Have you noticed the more you push your strong-willed kids, the more they resist? The more you lecture, the ...
11.08.2021 Child Hits, Screams, Defiant? What’s the Root? Child Hits, Screams, Defiant? What’s the Root? Your child may hit, bite, scream, yell at you, shut down, resist, or meltdown. Your first thought should NOT be, “How do I stop this?” Begin to ask, “What is the root of ...
11.01.2021 Child Procrastinate? How to Help Kids Focus. So you have a child who dawdles, procrastinates, waits until late at night, puts off the hard things. You or a teacher take away recess or screens. It doesn’t work. Kirk shows you how to use time compression to help ...
10.25.2021 Get Kids to Love & Respect Siblings? Why do siblings fight and annoy each other? Is the goal to get kids to stop fighting? Or is there a larger opportunity to teach kids even more important skills?
10.22.2021 Dads Only: How To Really Get Respect I was raised by a career military father who used the fear and intimidation approach to relationships. The discipline I learned from my Dad helped me build my career, but I never learned how to build relationships. You're a good ...
10.17.2021 Should You Ask Less of A Strong-Willed Child? Should You Ask Less of A Strong-Willed Child? What do you do when your strong-willed child doesn’t do chores or homework the way he should? What about the child who melts down and is defiant and disrespectful? Should you ask ...
10.11.2021 Moms Do Too Much. Here’s How to Stop That. Moms Do Too Much. Here’s How to Stop That. You do way too much, Moms. It makes you frustrated when your kids won’t even do simple things or help out. The “After all I do for you…” resentment doesn’t feel ...
10.04.2021 How Involved Should You Be in Homework? How Involved Should You Be in Homework? This is the age-old question that will consume you from Kindergarten through high school. Should you let your kids own their choices and possibly fail or jump in? Kirk shares one way to ...
09.26.2021 Kids Not Living Up to Potential? Your child does the bare minimum to get by, resists you, or isn't living up to his potential. Your lectures and anxiety cause the exact opposite result you're looking for. So how can you motivate this child and build a ...
09.21.2021 Have An Unmotivated, Frustrated Child Who Feels Dumb? Have An Unmotivated, Frustrated Child Who Feels Dumb? Has your child ever said, “I’m dumb” or “You’re stupid!”? That often happens when kids get overwhelmed in school and don’t know what to do. Kirk shares a life-changing script and insight ...
09.13.2021 Do We Give In? Let Her Get Away With Things? Do We Give In? Let Her Get Away With Things? Your child isn’t listening to your directions. You want to impose a consequence, but then the child will spiral out of control. So do you stop asking your child to ...
09.07.2021 Child Anxious? Won’t Push Through Tough Assignments? Child Anxious? Won’t Push Through Tough Assignments? Do you have a child who is anxious, who doesn’t like new experiences? What about a child who does the minimal work necessary and won’t push through when school work is difficult? If ...
08.30.2021 Let Your Kids Be Odd & Responsible For Themselves You have a child who came out of the womb different—more strong-willed, sensitive, peculiar, needing things to be done their way, resisting the way you want it done. You don’t like the way they do things and you know better—but ...
08.23.2021 3 Quick Ways to Help Kids at Back-to-School Time 3 Quick Ways to Help Kids at Back-to-School Time As the new school year begins, you’re hoping the new teacher understands your child and can help him succeed, instead of relying on behavior charts that make things worse. So how ...
08.16.2021 A Great Phrase to De-Escalate Back-to-School Tension Everyone is on edge now with school returning. Your kids are going to pushback, become more mouthy and defiant, siblings are going to fight. In the moment, it’s so hard to remain in control, so use this easy phrase to ...
08.08.2021 10 Back-to-School Tips for Kids Ages 3-17 10 Back-to-School Tips for Kids Ages 3-17 Worried about anxiety, social skills, motivating teens, behavior issues, transitioning after online learning, homework battles, and proper expectations? Of course. Kirk covers each of these topics in rapid fire format for kids of ...
08.07.2021 Do Calm Strategies Apply to Kids/Parents of All Ages? When your child is having a meltdown or anxious, does it matter if they are 2, 5, 8, 11, 14 or 17? Not at all. In fact, the meltdowns can often look the same. Does it matter whether you are ...
08.01.2021 The Danger of Labels: Help, Don’t Fix, Your Child The Danger of Labels: Help, Don’t Fix, Your Child What if we labeled naturally compliant children with RFCD: Rule Following Compliance Disorder and asserted that their very nature is a disorder that needs to be fixed? Well, we’ve done that ...
07.25.2021 Stop Making Your Kids Eat Your Food…Or Ideas Do you have a child that reflexively says, “No!” or “Why?” and rejects even your best, most well-intentioned suggestions? Of course you do! It’s frustrating, but Kirk shares a killer idea for getting your child to actually do what you ...
07.18.2021 Straight Up Defiance: 7 Ways to Stop It. Do you have a child who is defiant, oppositional, backtalks, or rolls his eyes? Kirk shows you how to be tough, get respect, and get to the root of the issue to ultimately stop this in your home. Extremely helpful ...
07.12.2021 You’re Not Yelling…Yet. But Here’s What Ticks You Off. Wouldn’t it be awesome if your kids just did what you told them to do? Without whining, dawdling, complaining, or arguing? Yes! But that’s not your reality. So how can you turn what is frustrating and leads to meltdowns into ...
07.05.2021 One New Idea When a Child Lashes Out So your child is lashing out. You can’t distract, redirect, or reason with your child this time. Nothing is working. Kirk shares a new idea he used with hundreds of kids that can change the dynamic very quickly, so try ...
06.28.2021 When Kids Resist & Whine—Stop Trying to Make Everything Better When Kids Resist & Whine—Stop Trying to Make Everything Better Are you tired of feeling like you have to “make everything better” for your child or fix your child’s attitude? Are you tired of the complaining and whining and power ...
06.21.2021 When Kids Are Wrong & Do Irritating Things When Kids Are Wrong & Do Irritating Things: Your son tears his pancakes with his bare hands. Your daughter doesn’t clean her room or do schoolwork the way you want. Your child procrastinates. It’s irritating. How can you use these ...
06.20.2021 Special Podcast for Father's Day Special Podcast for Father's Day Your son is whining on the soccer field and refusing to be a good teammate. You're frustrated and embarrassed. Now you have a choice as the Dad. You can escalate this and destroy your child's ...
06.14.2021 How to Affirm a Child Who Rejects Praise How to Affirm a Child Who Rejects PraiseDo you have a child who rejects or resists your praise? Frustrating, isn't it? Our affirmation doesn't always resonate with how they feel inside or it feels disingenuous. Kirk gives you a script ...
06.08.2021 Your Child Flips You Off-Tough Discipline & De-Escalating Your Child Flips You Off-Tough Discipline & De-Escalating Kirk gives you three examples of tough, matter-of-fact discipline in the first three minutes. Then he shows you a different way to handle an overtly defiant child who says the inexcusable to ...
06.04.2021 How to Get Kids’ Heads Out of Screens This Summer How to Get Kids’ Heads Out of Screens This Summer Of course your kids became more reliant on screens during the pandemic. The question is how do we realistically begin to roll back screen use? Kirk gives you three practical ...
06.02.2021 For Friends in California and Arizona If you like the podcast, you will love our live events. We have a special opportunity to conduct live workshops in CA and AZ for about half the normal cost. Travel costs from the east coast are often prohibitive, BUT ...
06.01.2021 When Kids Refuse To Go, Lash Out & Don’t Like Your Rules Your teenage daughter is mad because you won’t let her text late at night or go to a party. Your anxious son is screaming at you and refuses to go to an extracurricular. The battle lines are drawn. Kirk gives ...
05.24.2021 How To Fix Your Relationship With Your Strong-Willed Child How To Fix Your Relationship With Your Strong-Willed Child So this podcast is a little raw with emotion and force. There is a lot of insight into your strong-willed child that is absolutely critical. I’ve never said this before, but ...
05.18.2021 How To Handle Chaos, Whining, Meltdowns & Sibling Fights All hell is breaking loose around you. Kids are whining, fighting, melting down. It’s so frustrating after all you’ve done to make your kids happy. Your first impulse is to fix it and stop all the chaos. But that often ...
05.15.2021 A Message For Kids: You Don't Need To Be Fixed A lot of young people feel misunderstood and judged. They go through life feeling like everyone is trying to fix them. So I recorded this short podcast to tell young people the truth: (1) You do not need to be ...
05.10.2021 When Your Child Thrashes About—Teach Them To Be Responsible Ever have a child lose it over little things? Want your child to learn how to be responsible for himself? Kirk shows you how to resist jumping in to fix situations so your kids can develop the confidence and resilience ...
05.09.2021 SPECIAL PODCAST: Mother's Day Message For My Mom SPECIAL PODCAST: Mother's Day Message For My Mom My Mom is 87 and has fought for decades through many battles. She is an amazing woman. The fight, though, appears to be fading in the twilight of her life. She can ...
05.06.2021 How A Dad Stopped a Power Struggle Over School How A Dad Stopped a Power Struggle Over SchoolSo I almost sobbed throughout this podcast. How do you turn a power struggle over school work into a bonding experience? How can Moms be free from the burden, guilt, and anxiety ...
05.03.2021 No, Your Kids DO NOT Want Your Attention—They Want This. No, Your Kids DO NOT Want Your Attention—They Want This. What if there was one tool you could use to calm an upset child, motivate your child to behave better, and stop arguments, defiance and hitting siblings? Kirk shows you ...
04.26.2021 Why Kids Resist Your Help Why Kids Resist Your Help You’re trying to help your kids with school, making something, cooking, sports, a chore. And they resist you. It’s frustrating! Your tone shifts and now it’s WWIII. Kirk shares how you can change this so ...
04.20.2021 Stop Meltdowns & Fights, Improve Focus & Sleep Stop Meltdowns & Fights, Improve Focus & Sleep Our kids can be so frustrating that we try to constantly change them. But what if the solution is right there in front of you? Kirk shows you how to help your ...
04.18.2021 10 Tips for Kids Ages 2-7 10 Tips for Kids Ages 2-7 Tired of repeating things, threatening time-outs, and saying, “No!” or “Stop!” 378 times per day? Kirk shows you very specific, concrete ways to get younger kids to listen, focus, calm down when upset, stop ...
04.13.2021 My Son Pushes My Buttons On Purpose. My Son Pushes My Buttons On Purpose.Your child actively seeks to annoy you or push your buttons. And you react. It’s a vicious cycle that you have the power to stop. Kirk shows you how.
04.05.2021 How to Set Limits & Use Tough Discipline How to Set Limits & Use Tough DisciplineBeing calm doesn't mean being soft or sweet--it means you stay in control of yourself while you discipline your kids. Kirk gives you scripts and principles to develop a game plan for discipline ...
04.01.2021 Dads: Want Kids to Listen? Here's A Game Plan It seems like your kids are constantly in trouble, misbehaving, and getting consequences that don't work. So how do you get your kids to actually listen to and respect you? Kirk gives you a specific game plan to implement this ...
03.29.2021 Get Rid of Your Child's Shame This Week Have a child who lies, won't look you in the eyes, makes up excuses, lashes out when in trouble, and/or gives up when things get tough? Kirk shows you how to change these behaviors in this powerful podcast. Please share ...
03.24.2021 Boy Can’t Lose Games, Girl Hanging Out with “Wrong” Friends Boy Can’t Lose Games, Girl Hanging Out with “Wrong” Friends You have a child who gets upset when he loses games, is hanging out with questionable friends, or is questioning her faith. How can you use this to your advantage? ...
03.22.2021 3 Ways to Get Calm, Compliance & Contrition 3 Ways to Get Calm, Compliance & Contrition Want your child to listen to you, calm down when upset, and show contrition? Consequences haven’t worked, so Kirk shows you three (actually six!) creative and effective ways to change your relationship. ...

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