Calm Parenting Podcast

By Kirk Martin

Education 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 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 Emily@CelebrateCalm.com.

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Bedtime, Dinnertime & Morning Routine: 5 Ways to Stop the Stress You have power struggles from the time your kids wake up until they (finally) go to bed. Kirk provides very practical, but unique, ways to eliminate the stress so ...

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12.10.2019 Bedtime, Dinnertime & Morning Routine: 5 Ways to Stop the Stress Bedtime, Dinnertime & Morning Routine: 5 Ways to Stop the Stress You have power struggles from the time your kids wake up until they (finally) go to bed. Kirk provides very practical, but unique, ways to eliminate the stress so ...
12.02.2019 Stop Sibling Fights & Lying, and Build A Confident Kid Stop Sibling Fights & Lying, and Build A Confident Kid Learn how to get your kids to control themselves so you don’t have to be the referee. Building confidence will eliminate more behavior issues than consequences will. There are some ...
11.25.2019 How to Enjoy Your Challenging Child How to Enjoy Your Challenging Child Kirk shares an emotional story about the exact moment he began to accept his strong-willed, difficult son. Learn three very powerful ways to rebuild your relationship, motivate your child, and enjoy him again. A ...
11.18.2019 Defiance: 3 Scripts with Your Kids Defiance: 3 Scripts with Your Kids How do you respond when your kids use that tone with you? How about when they talk back, mouth off, or roll their eyes at you? Kirk gives you actual scripts to use plus ...
11.12.2019 Strong-Willed Child Pushing Your Buttons? Strong-Willed Child Pushing Your Buttons? When your child pushes your buttons, you have an amazing opportunity to stop the power struggles. Forever. Learn how to identify and overcome your triggers. This will change you and your kids for generations.
11.01.2019 Do This to Get Your Kids to Change Do THIS to Get Your Kid to Change Have you stopped enjoying your child because you are too busy trying to get him to change his behavior, study habits, and attitude? Kirk shows you how to get your kids to ...
10.21.2019 No More Behavior Charts! Turning Negative Behavior Positive. No More Behavior Charts! Turning Negative Behavior Positive. How do you address real behavior issues without resorting to negative methods that don’t work and make things worse? Aren’t you letting kids “get away with” misbehavior? No! Why is it damaging ...
10.07.2019 Motivating A Kid Who Gives Up or Has Shut Down Motivating A Kid Who Gives Up or Has Shut Down You have a child who gives up when things get hard or who has already shut down. He just won’t push through in school, sports, or music. So how do ...
10.01.2019 The Key to Compliance: Being Tough While Building Trust The Key to Compliance: Being Tough While Building Trust You want your child to listen to you and do what you say. But how do you change behavior when a teen won't listen, a child calls you a b****, and ...
09.23.2019 Motivating Kids with Bad Attitudes Motivating Kids with Bad Attitudes You have a child with a bad attitude toward homework, chores or anything you want him to do. So how do you motivate this child, change the attitude, and connect? Kirk shares some unorthodox, but ...
09.17.2019 Child Forget to Turn in Homework? Help with Focus. Child Forget to Turn in Homework? Help with Focus. In this surprisingly emotional and hard-hitting podcast, Kirk shows you clearly how to turn a negative that usually brings conflict and frustration into a positive that builds your child’s confidence
09.16.2019 Child Forget to Turn in Homework? Help with Focus. Child Forget to Turn in Homework? Help with Focus. In this surprisingly emotional and hard-hitting podcast, Kirk shows you clearly how to turn a negative that usually brings conflict and frustration into a positive that builds your child’s confidence
09.09.2019 “I’m Not Going!” Child Challenging Your Authority? “I’m Not Going!” Child Challenging Your Authority? Your child is refusing to go. You threaten, demand, and plead. Your child digs in and calls you names. So how do you handle a child challenging your authority? How can you instantly ...
09.04.2019 Confrontation with Long Island Mom--Can You Change My Child Quickly? Confrontation with Long Island Mom--Can You Change My Child Quickly? So this Long Island Mom approaches me after a live event and says, "We don't have time for all this stuff. How can you change my kids more quickly?" We ...
08.20.2019 How To Be Tough & Stop Escalating How To Be Tough & Stop Escalating Tension is rising as the new school year begins. So how can you be tough with your kids so they listen, without escalating situations? What is one secret to making this coming school ...
08.16.2019 5 Tips in 5 Minutes for Men You're a busy guy with lots of pressure at work and the last thing you want to come home to is a challenging child. But that's your life. You are indescribably important and irreplaceable at home. Your wife has been ...
08.06.2019 This Makes Anxiety Worse: A New Script for Anxiety This Makes Anxiety Worse: A New Script for Anxiety How do you help your kids with anxiety, get kids to listen after they have misbehaved, and get hubby on board? I give you an actual script to use when kids ...
07.16.2019 “5 More Minutes, Mom!” Getting Resistant Kids to Move This is a killer podcast, so don’t miss it! Your child dawdles, ignores you, or simply refuses to do what you say. Kirk shows you a tough way to handle this, and an even better way that will change your ...
07.09.2019 Appropriate Consequences? Stealing, Lying & More What are appropriate consequences for your child? How can you teach your child to change himself instead of shaming him? How can we get kids to stop lying and stealing? THIS approach with actually change your child's behavior. A top ...
06.01.2019 Dads: 3 Ways to Get Kids to Respect & Listen to You Dads-3 Ways to Get Kids to Respect & Listen to You We want our kids to respect us so we can pass our wisdom down to them, so they don’t make the same mistakes, so they will be successful. But ...
05.14.2019 Finish School Strong: 5 Tips Finish School Strong: 5 Tips It’s been a long year and everyone is frustrated. Instead of spending all our energy trying to fix a child’s weaknesses, take these 5 simple steps to end the year building your child’s confidence. I ...
05.07.2019 Mommy Lectures Don't Work. This does. Mommy Lectures Don't Work. This does. You want your kids to listen to you. They don’t. You want your kids to respect you. They don’t. That sweet voice that turns into yelling never works. Instead of trying to convince and ...
05.01.2019 Why I Don't Like Mother's Day Moms deserve much more than this. So how can you get your kids (and spouse) to respect you and your time 365 days of the year? Listen as Kirk gives you a specific script and practical action steps. No more ...
04.18.2019 Change Your Child by Changing Yourself First Really want to stop the power struggles with your kids? Kirk has a challenge: for the next 3 days, control your own anxiety over your child’s behavior and watch what happens. Lecturing kids tells them, “You aren’t capable of being ...
04.08.2019 Chores, Fortnite, Authority, Respect. Kids Who Give Up When It’s Difficult Do you agree or disagree with Kirk’s shocking advice for handling a child who yells at his Mom and defies her authority? Learn why some kids shut down and aren’t motivated. What do you do when one child takes all ...
04.01.2019 Child Pushing Your Buttons? Good! Here's How to Stop It. Child Pushing Your Buttons? Good! Here’s How to Stop It. Ever wonder why your child gets so much satisfaction from pushing your buttons and arguing with you? You thought he was just being difficult. But when you realize WHY and ...
03.19.2019 2 Key Phrases When Kids Shut Down (For Teachers & Parents) Frustrated because consequences don’t motivate your students or kids? Then listen to this podcast and learn two killer phrases that WILL reach deep down into a kid’s heart and change his attitude. Build your child’s confidence instead of crushing his ...
03.04.2019 Struggling, Unmotivated Kids: 2 Ways to Help Struggling, Unmotivated Kids: 2 Ways to Help Okay, so this podcast is only for the courageous parent who wants to completely transform their relationship with a strong-willed child. Kirk gives you two scripts to use that he normally only reveals ...
02.25.2019 Stop Crushing Spirits: 5 Ways Teachers Can Help Our Kids Can you imagine internalizing that you're a bad kid or stupid kid? Behavior charts crush our kids. But you can't just let kids get away with misbehavior when they struggle with following directions, focus and attention, blurting out, writing, social ...
02.18.2019 Kids Not Listening? Don't Mess With Me. Your child whines, negotiates, argues, says, "One more minute" or just refuses to do what you ask, then calls you mean. In this podcast, Kirk demonstrates the tone and attitude you need in order to get your kids to listen ...
01.26.2019 No More Excuses, Kids! You Have Unique Advantages (For Parents & Teachers) It’s heartbreaking to hear kids say, “I’m stupid” and shut down. Your kids have struggles, but I don’t want to coddle them or make excuses. In fact, I want you to turn their negatives into positives. Listen until the end ...
01.21.2019 Want Responsible, Respectful Kids? Do The Step Back. Yeah, I know we all want the same thing: kids who are responsible, respectful and become good citizens. I’m going to share a very powerful secret that will get your kids to actually step up and be responsible for themselves. ...
01.08.2019 Get Your Strong-Willed Kids to Do Stuff Without The Fight Get Your Strong-Willed Kids to Do Stuff Without The Fight You have a strong-willed child who automatically resists you at every turn, chooses the harder path, and won’t do things the way you want them to be done. Kirk gives ...
01.01.2019 Parenting is Hard. 2 Ways to Keep Your Sanity in 2019. You had children. Why? What were your expectations? I bet life has turned out very different than you have envisioned it. That can either cause you to resent your strong-willed child or break generational patterns so your kids don’t struggle ...
12.17.2018 Stop Power Struggles With Strong-Willed Kids Stop Power Struggles With Strong-Willed Kids Do you need your children to behave, precisely because you cannot control yourself if they don’t? If your child is in a bad mood, does this change your mood? In this short podcast, Kirk ...
12.11.2018 Q:A: Hubby On Board? Rude or Anxious Kids. “My son has had an attitude lately. How can we change that?” Kirk gives you an entirely different way to frame this. “How can I get my hubby on board?” Kirk gives you four different scripts and one blunt approach. ...
12.01.2018 Concerned About Social Skills? Kirk explains why your kids get along better with adults, younger kids, and/or animals…but struggle with peers. Should you be concerned? Should your child see a counselor for this? His answer may surprise you. Not for the faint of heart ...
11.27.2018 Stop Trying to Fix Your Kids—Train Their Brains Stop Trying to Fix Your Kids—Train Their Brains Have kids who forget to turn in homework, feel "dumb," get overwhelmed, blurt out, or struggle in school? Society will crush your child’s spirit and destroy their confidence. So you must teach ...
11.13.2018 De-Escalate & Discipline A Defiant Child: My Best Podcast Ever De-Escalate & Discipline A Defiant Child: My Best Podcast Ever This 30-minute podcast will change how you handle meltdowns, yelling, and discipline in your home. Ever feel helpless when your kids are out of control or defiant? So do your ...
10.23.2018 Q&A Lightning Round: Fairness, Getting Kids to Be Responsible & Calming Upset Students Q&A: Fairness, Getting Kids to Be Responsible & Calming Upset Students Kirk answers 6 tough questions from parents and teachers in this lightning round format. As always, his strategies are practical, creative, and they work! · How do we get ...
10.02.2018 Watch Your Tone! Calming Intense Kids. Watch Your Tone! Calming Intense Kids. Your child gets upset, lashes out, picks on her brother, and the family walks on eggshells around her. Then she beats herself up. Yelling won't work. But talking to her with a sweet, affirming ...
09.18.2018 When Kids Push Buttons & Yell at Mom Your kids are expert button-pushers. So how do you respond instead of react? A child yells at his mom, dad yells at the child, and then mom has to clean up the mess. Hubby feels criticized and checks out. Resentments ...
09.11.2018 Consequences for Lying & Bad Behavior: A Radically Different Approach Consequences for Lying & Bad Behavior: A Radically Different Approach Your child lies, misbehaves, and does things that erode trust. Consequences won’t work. But THIS radically different approach will actually change your child’s behavior faster than anything else you’ve tried. ...
09.04.2018 Stop Endless Arguments Over Sleep, Homework, Phones & More Stop Endless Arguments Over Sleep, Homework, Phones & More September 4, 2018 How do you get your relentless child to stop arguing and take ownership of his choices? How do you de-escalate in the moment AND get your child to ...
08.21.2018 THE SMART* KID WHO CHANGED THE WORLD THE SMART* KID WHO CHANGED THE WORLD Kirk's never told this story before, partly because it's so personal and emotional, but it's what prompted him to create the ADHD University program a few years ago. I bet you'll see your ...
08.14.2018 Massive Meltdown & Destructive Defiance Massive Meltdown & Destructive Defiance Do your kids ever meltdown, shut down, or throw down when you ask them to do things or go new places? It usually creates an ugly scene with everyone in tears. But Kirk will show ...
08.07.2018 Disciplining Calculating, Willful Children Disciplining Calculating, Willful Children I don't know why I cried throughout this podcast—I’m getting all soft and it’s uncomfortable! But it usually means that it’s really good insight you need into these challenging kids. Listen to this tale of two ...
07.29.2018 Consequences Don't Work! Why Good Behavior Doesn't Matter Consequences Don't Work! Why Good Behavior Doesn't Matter Tired of the endless loop of consequences that don't ever work anyway? Want to know why your kids shut down and don't feel good about themselves? This is a very emotional podcast ...
07.18.2018 Casey: 5 Ways to Disagree Without Losing Everything 5 Ways to Disagree Without Losing Everything So many situations escalate that simply don't have to. How do you disagree without ruining your relationship? How can you actually build trust while disagreeing? How can you rebuild the connection with your ...
07.02.2018 Bob The Nuclear Reactor—5 Keys to Stop Reacting Bob The Nuclear Reactor—5 Keys to Stop Reacting For some reason, I got really emotional during this podcast. Be warned: this is not for the faint of the heart. My five points are brutal, but they will free you from ...

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