Calm Parenting Podcast

By Kirk Martin

Education Social Sciences Kids & Family

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 1,000,000 parents and teachers around the world practical, 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, ASD, 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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01.24.2023

Do you have a child or student who daydreams and doesn't pay attention? How about a student who reads during math class or who acts out in class to make others laugh? Kirk provides 5 practical, creative strategies in this ...

Calm Parenting Podcast episodes:

01.24.2023 Q&A For Teachers & Parents: Kids Daydreaming, Not Listening, Acting Silly in Class Do you have a child or student who daydreams and doesn't pay attention? How about a student who reads during math class or who acts out in class to make others laugh? Kirk provides 5 practical, creative strategies in this ...
01.22.2023 How to Reset/Recover After You React/Yell At/Lecture Your Child Want to talk with Kirk directly and come up with a game plan for your family? Kirk will work with you individually, or together with your spouse, to get you on the same page and help with the toughest parenting ...
01.15.2023 3 Ways to Keep From Destroying Your Child’s Confidence Our New Year's Sale Ends This Weekend: You get everything we have ever recorded delivered directly to an app on your iPhone, iPad, Android, or computer. Listen anywhere, anytime. You get 35 hours of practical strategies and concrete examples, along ...
01.10.2023 Teachers: 5 Ways to Help Students with Anxiety, Focus, Social Skills, & Transitions Teachers: 5 Ways to Help Students with Anxiety, Focus, Social Skills, & Transitions Most of us have one or two children who may not listen. Imagine having 20 in your classroom! Kirk gives teachers very practical action steps and scripts ...
01.08.2023 One Way to Change Your Child's Response Overnight Our New Year's Sale Begins NOW: You get everything we have ever recorded delivered directly to an app on your iPhone, iPad, Android, or computer. Listen anywhere, anytime. You get 35 hours of practical strategies and concrete examples, along with ...
01.01.2023 The Truth About Lying & How To Stop It Our New Year's Sale Begins NOW: You get everything we have ever recorded delivered directly to an app on your iPhone, iPad, Android, or computer. Listen anywhere, anytime. You get 35 hours of practical strategies and concrete examples, along with ...
12.26.2022 When To Be Tough Or Soft? Specific Examples. We are extending our Christmas Clearance Sale through January 1st: You get everything we have ever recorded delivered directly to an app on your iPhone, iPad, Android, or computer. Listen anywhere, anytime. You get 35 hours of practical strategies and ...
12.19.2022 5 Quick Holiday/Family Survival Strategies Our Christmas Clearance Sale Ends This Weekend: You get everything we have ever recorded delivered directly to an app on your iPhone, iPad, Android, or computer. Listen anywhere, anytime. You get 35 hours of practical strategies and concrete examples, along ...
12.12.2022 What Should Worry You About Your Strong-Willed Child Take advantage of our Christmas Clearance Sale: You get everything we have ever recorded delivered directly to an app on your iPhone, iPad, Android, or computer. Listen anywhere, anytime. You get 35 hours of practical strategies and concrete examples, along ...
12.04.2022 A Grumbling, Growling Child: 3 Ideas For Defiance & Complaining Early Access To Our Christmas Clearance Sale Begins NOW: You get everything we have ever recorded delivered directly to an app on your iPhone, iPad, Android, or computer. Listen anywhere, anytime. You get 35 hours of practical strategies and concrete ...
11.28.2022 Tired of Being Judged As A Parent During the Holidays? Tired of Being Judged As A Parent During the Holidays? Are you tired of having to explain why your child acts the way he does or defend how you parent to your parents, in-laws or family members? Disagreements over how ...
11.20.2022 The Real Reason Kids Misbehave & Fight This may be one of the most important podcasts I have ever recorded. We cover sibling issues, tension between parent and child, building confidence, and answers this question: "How can we REALLY change our home life?" We are extending our ...
11.16.2022 3 (Actually 5!) Quick Ideas For Dads & Moms 3 (Actually 5!) Quick Ideas For Dads & Moms When you thought about having kids or adopting, you didn’t say, “I bet we are going to have a really strong-willed child who fights us over everything, and that will cause ...
11.13.2022 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 ...
11.06.2022 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 ...
10.30.2022 One Secret to Change Misbehavior & Build Confidence One Secret to Change Misbehavior & Build Confidence So what DO you do when consequences don’t work, your child continues to beat himself up, and everyone is frustrated? Kirk gives you a very specific game plan to use the next ...
10.23.2022 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 ...
10.16.2022 Dishonesty or Distrust? When Kids Lie or Won’t Talk to You. Dishonesty or Distrust? When Kids Lie or Won’t Talk to You. Your child lies, withholds information, is like a chameleon blending in. You can’t fully trust him and think there’s a dishonesty issue. But what if it’s something else? Kirk ...
10.09.2022 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 ...
10.02.2022 How to “Yell” Appropriately At Toddlers, Teens & In Between How to “Yell” Appropriately At Toddlers, Teens & In Between “I yell because that’s the only way I can get my kids to listen!” Okay, I get that. But what if there are other ways to “yell” that don’t result ...
09.25.2022 3 Ways A Dad Prevented Volcanic Reactions 3 Ways A Dad Prevented Volcanic Reactions Your child goes from 0-100 with volcanic eruptions and screams, yells, hits, swears. It provokes a firestorm of reactions that don’t just last 30 minutes—it ruins the entire night. In this podcast, Kirk ...
09.18.2022 How to "Win" The Power Struggle Without Struggling How to "Win" The Power Struggle Without Struggling You ARE going to have power struggles with your strong-willed child, no matter the age. So often, we inadvertently make them worse by fighting them, trying to “win” as if it’s a ...
09.11.2022 Fighting Over Doritos: Handling Tantrums & Sibling Fights Fighting Over Doritos: Handling Tantrums & Sibling Fights Two kids bring home bags of Doritos. The brother eats them, sister complains, Mom intervenes and takes away snacks, son cries and has a tantrum. A teenager demands the car keys, doesn't ...
09.05.2022 5 Simple Tips to Calm Down & De-Escalate Situations Yeah, yeah, yeah, we hear your annoying voice reminding us to control ourselves. But HOW? In this short podcast, I share five simple tips to calm yourself and de-escalate situations. You can do this. If you want more tools, take ...
08.28.2022 A Great Phrase to De-Escalate Back-to-School Tension This is the final week of our Back-To-School Sale. Set your kids up for success this year: https://celebratecalm.com/products/ Want personal mentoring with Kirk via Phone? Click here to learn about mentoring packages. Want to book a LIVE EVENT in 2022/2023?! ...
08.24.2022 Let Your Kids Be Odd & Responsible For Themselves 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 ...
08.21.2022 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 can you prepare new teachers to help your child? ...
08.15.2022 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 ...
08.10.2022 Proper Expectations of Toddlers, Teens & In-Between Society and social media puts too much pressure on families (okay, Moms!) to have perfect families. If you have a strong-willed child, it’s going to be ugly at times. So what are proper expectations for kids of all ages? I ...
08.07.2022 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 ...
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07.31.2022 Getting Your Child to Be Part of Family Life & Motivated In School? You have a child who procrastinates, isn’t motivated, doesn’t follow directions, or has shut down or won’t talk to you. How can we get this child to do school work, listen, and be a pleasant part of family life? Want ...
07.24.2022 You’re Not Yelling…Yet. But Here’s What Ticks You Off. We have extended our Christmas in July Sale for ONE more week! Final Sale Ends 8/1/22. Get our lowest prices on the Get Everything Package and the Calm Parenting Package. New! 3 Parent BootCamps With Kirk. Want to avoid another ...
07.17.2022 One New Idea When a Child Lashes Out This is the FINAL week of our Christmas in July Sale! Get our lowest prices on the Get Everything Package and the Calm Parenting Package. New! 3 Parent BootCamps With Kirk. Want to avoid another school year filled with stress? ...
07.10.2022 Straight Up Defiance: 7 Ways to Stop It. Our Christmas in July Sale Continues This Week! Get our lowest prices on the Get Everything Package and the Calm Parenting Package. New! 3 Parent BootCamps With Kirk. Want to avoid another school year filled with stress? BootCamp gives me ...
07.03.2022 When Kids Resist & Whine—Stop Trying to Make Everything Better Our Christmas in July Sale Begins NOW! Lowest Prices Ever on the Get Everything Package and the Calm Parenting Package. Want to talk with Kirk directly and come up with a game plan for your family? Kirk will work with ...
06.26.2022 Kids Who Complain: 2 Big Insights Want to talk with Kirk directly and come up with a game plan for your family? Kirk will work with you individually, or together with your spouse, to get you on the same page and help with the toughest parenting ...
06.19.2022 Every Mom's Dilemma: Navigating Meltdowns (From Child & Spouse) Our Summer Sale Begins Today! You get everything we have ever recorded delivered directly to an app on your iPhone, iPad, Android, or computer. Listen anywhere, anytime. You receive 35 hours of practical strategies and concrete examples, along with multiple ...
06.12.2022 DADS: 2 Noble Goals, 2 Big Challenges Our Father's Day / Summer Sale Ends This Weekend You get everything we have ever recorded delivered directly to an app on your iPhone, iPad, Android, or computer. Listen anywhere, anytime. You receive 35 hours of practical strategies and concrete ...
06.05.2022 4 Things We Misunderstand About Strong-Willed Children Our Summer Sale Begins Today! You get everything we have ever recorded delivered directly to an app on your iPhone, iPad, Android, or computer. Listen anywhere, anytime. You receive 35 hours of practical strategies and concrete examples, along with multiple ...
06.01.2022 Frazzled Child In A Bad Mood? How to Help. Our Summer Sale Begins Today! You get everything we have ever recorded delivered directly to an app on your iPhone, iPad, Android, or computer. Listen anywhere, anytime. You receive 35 hours of practical strategies and concrete examples, along with multiple ...
05.23.2022 You Don’t Have To Take It (Disrespect)! A Tough Approach Want to talk with Kirk directly and come up with a game plan for your family? Kirk will work with you individually, or together with your spouse, to get you on the same page and help with the toughest parenting ...
05.21.2022 Widows and Single Parents: Dealing With Guilt & Anger/Defiance SPECIAL PODCAST: Widows and Single Parents: Dealing With Guilt & Anger/Defiance The challenges you face through this trauma are unimaginable. So Kirk gives you some encouraging and practical ways to deal with the guilt (and temptation to buy your kids ...
05.16.2022 Child Who Corrects You, Proves Their Point Want to talk with Kirk directly and come up with a game plan for your family? Kirk will work with you individually, or together with your spouse, to get you on the same page and help with the toughest parenting ...
05.09.2022 3 Behaviors We Misinterpret As Defiance or Selfishness We Are Extending Our Mother's Day Sale ONE More Week! You get everything we have ever recorded delivered directly to an app on your iPhone, iPad, Android, or computer. Listen anywhere, anytime. You receive 35 hours of practical strategies and ...
05.01.2022 Stop Judging Moms: No One Has Any Idea How Hard This Is Our Mother's Day Sale Ends This Weekend! Admit it, Moms. Even your Birthday is more about your kids having a good time! But Mother's Day should be one of 365 days you feel respected and helped. So we created a ...
04.24.2022 Are You Coddling Your Child? A Surprising Answer Our Mother's Day Sale Begins TODAY! Admit it, Moms. Even your Birthday is more about your kids having a good time! But Mother's Day should be one of 365 days you feel respected and helped. So we created a special ...
04.21.2022 How to Get Your Kids to Control Themselves Get Everything Spring Sale: You get everything we have ever recorded delivered directly to an app on your iPhone, iPad, Android, or computer. Listen anywhere, anytime. You receive 35 hours of practical strategies and concrete examples, along with multiple PDF ...
04.17.2022 Have A Relentless Arguer? Use This Script. Get Everything Spring Sale: You get everything we have ever recorded delivered directly to an app on your iPhone, iPad, Android, or computer. Listen anywhere, anytime. You receive 35 hours of practical strategies and concrete examples, along with multiple PDF ...
04.16.2022 When Kids Don’t Respect A Step-Parent Want to talk with Kirk directly and come up with a game plan for your family? Kirk will work with you individually, or together with your spouse, to get you on the same page and help with the toughest parenting ...

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