Calm Parenting Podcast XX
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[22] So you have kids who are going to do things in odd or different ways.
[23] Ways you don't agree with.
[24] They're not going to do it your way.
[25] and it's going to frustrate you and you're going to want to get on them and lecture them and show them and tell them and convince them.
[26] And I don't want you to do any of those things.
[27] One, it doesn't work.
[28] Two, it frustrates you and your child.
[29] And three, it will destroy your relationship with a strong -willed child.
[30] So I want to show you on today's episode of the Calm Parenting Podcast, how to do this differently.
[31] So welcome.
[32] This is Kirk Martin.
[33] I'm founder to Celebrate Calm.
[34] If you need help, reach out to Casey, that's our son, C -A -S -E -Y at Celebrate Calm .com.
[35] Tell us about your family.
[36] Tell us what you're struggling with.
[37] We will get back to you personally because this is a family mission.
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[41] You can get either the Calm Parenting package, which is the main package, and it'll really help you.
[42] or if you've got a slightly older child, look up the no BS program, or just get everything, because then you have everything and you're equipped for the school gear.
[43] And so here's what I want to talk about.
[44] It's doing a phone consultation, a very nice couple, and they have a teenage girl.
[45] And so there are three things that were going on as school begins that they were worried about.
[46] One is that all year, all summer long, their kids, pretty much like many of yours, just slept in really late all morning long so now it's like oh oh school time they're going to have to get up and go to school well mom who i'm working with we're kind of working on she called like all parents she's like well i need to talk about my kids i want to tell you about my kids and what ends up happening is we're really working with mom and dad on some things of controlling their own anxiety controlling their own perfectionism their own control issues your um your feeling of being embarrassed by these kids because look all of those feelings cause you to jump in and try to change your child to try to force things to lecture to convince to always try to get them to do things your way and what happens they always not half the time not even three -quarters of the time literally every time they resist so we're working on stepping back and I wanted to compliment this mom's doing a really awesome job because, look, many of you have things from your childhood where you had to be ultra -responsible because maybe you had some different family situations, and when you were ultra -responsible, it got you a lot of attention and affirmation from a parent who maybe wouldn't have given it to you otherwise.
[47] Or maybe you lived in a chaotic home and being very, very conscientious and focusing on certain things and doing really well in school, well, that provided a sense of order and stability for you.
[48] But now that you're an adult, right, now that you're an adult, you have to release yourself from that.
[49] See, here's a great kind of little therapy thing of that served you well when you were a little girl or a little boy.
[50] See, doing that served you well then because it provided a sense of order within all the chaos.
[51] It provided you with the affirmation and attention from your parent that you needed when you were a little kid.
[52] But now that very same quality is sabotaging your relationships and so it's time to break those patterns and that's a large part of what we do at Celebrate Calm is not just changing your child's behavior.
[53] It's breaking generational patterns.
[54] Things that have tripped you up that go back generations in your family and you have the power to do that, which is really, really cool.
[55] So here are the three things that that happened.
[56] The mom was concerned about getting their child up for school, clothes.
[57] We'll get into that in a second, and hygiene and brushing hair and stuff like that.
[58] So the first thing that happened was mom stepped back because one of our core principles is when you step back as a parent, it gives your child an opportunity, it gives them space because space is really important.
[59] You can't stand over these kids.
[60] If you're going to stand over them and micromanage them, they will resist you and they will shut down and they will hate you for it.
[61] And so I want you to give them some space.
[62] So mom stepped back, and guess what her daughter did?
[63] Her daughter ends up getting up early, earlier than expected, and ends up walking the dog every morning this week before school.
[64] I don't know if the daughter knows this, but she's figuring it out on our own that getting up early so she doesn't have to rush, getting outside and fresh air, and walking with her dog, who is probably her best friend, because dogs are awesome like that, settles her and helps her deal with her own anxiety.
[65] So she made it to school every day this week, this past week, because she chose to get up early, she chose to get some exercise, she chose to walk the dog early in the morning.
[66] I can guarantee you, if mom and dad had spent all this time lecturing and talk about how important it is to get up early in the morning, and I've been getting up for years, and I get exercise, and it's good for your brain, that she wouldn't have done it, right?
[67] She'd give her some space, clothes.
[68] Mom said I probably spent $1 ,500, trying to find something, anything appropriate that my daughter would wear.
[69] And I said, well, you're probably, she's probably only going to wear like $100 worth of what you spent.
[70] And the mom's like, yeah, she's worn the same clothes to school every day this week.
[71] Now, that taxes mom's emotions.
[72] It makes mom feel a little bit embarrassed.
[73] And she's wondering, is she going to smell?
[74] What should I do?
[75] And I was like, no, that's what these kids do.
[76] They don't care.
[77] Let them be who they are.
[78] Daughter doesn't care.
[79] Don't make a big deal of it.
[80] Don't walk around saying, well, I spent all this money.
[81] No, just take everything back.
[82] you kept the receipt, just take it back, and now you just found you're probably going to have like 1 ,300 extra dollars on you, right?
[83] Or you can say to your daughter halfway through the week, hey, if you want, I can throw those pants and shirt in the wash tonight if you want so they're ready in the morning.
[84] And then walk away.
[85] Don't make a big deal of it, right?
[86] Because here's what we do, snotty stuff.
[87] You know, you have some other clothes that you haven't worn, and I think you look really pretty in them, which guarantees they're not going to do it.
[88] Or you just let her be, like, she is, or you can say, hey, I've noticed that you really seem to like those particular pants or that shirt if you want.
[89] I can take all the other stuff back and I can just get two more of the ones that you like.
[90] I can even get in the same color, or if you want to branch out and get a different color, just let me know.
[91] See, there's no pressure there.
[92] You're offering, but you just honor your daughter's wishes, your son's wishes with that.
[93] I don't care what clothes they wear as long it's appropriate within your boundaries.
[94] So what?
[95] That's your issue.
[96] So deal with it.
[97] Here's why I told them, I was like, you need to grow up and deal with it, right?
[98] You're being a freak.
[99] So she wants to wear the same thing every day.
[100] Who cares?
[101] That's your own embarrassment and that's your issue.
[102] So stop trying to, you're creating power struggles that don't need to be done.
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[110] She didn't, which is awesome.
[111] The grandmother is actually a hairdresser and the mom was like, well, I was going to offer and I was like, no, your daughter's completely comfortable with it, right?
[112] So don't take that photo.
[113] Don't push grandma.
[114] Don't make a big deal of it.
[115] When your daughter's ready for someone to help her fix the back of her hair to even it out, she'll say something.
[116] She'll initiate it.
[117] Now, I know that's hard for you as parents.
[118] Because she's like, I know, but she goes to school every day in the same clothes and her hair is a little bit uneven.
[119] Maybe someone will say something to her at school, and maybe she'll care and come home and do it herself or have a friend do it or ask her help or make an appointment and go get it done.
[120] Maybe, or she may just not care or it may be a couple months from now.
[121] But when she owns it, she will own it.
[122] In her time, she will take care of it or she won't.
[123] And if she doesn't, it's for a simple reason.
[124] She doesn't care.
[125] It's not important to her.
[126] And watch what usually happens to us.
[127] We start to list all these things of like, well, you should wear some different clothes of school, honey, and I really think we should fix the back of your hair.
[128] And you know what we miss doing?
[129] We miss affirming this girl, because this is a girl like many of your kids who has felt different her entire life.
[130] She came out of the womb, just feeling different.
[131] She's always done everything in a different way.
[132] And probably people have said to her, Why do you make everything so difficult?
[133] Why can't you just do things like your brother does?
[134] Why can't you do?
[135] And she goes to school every day, and she knows that she's different.
[136] It's pretty obvious that she's not like in that certain in crowd or whatever group there is.
[137] She knows that.
[138] She's internalized that.
[139] And do you know how much courage it has taken for this particular girl to get out of bed in the morning, to fight through that anxiety, to know when I walk through those doors of that school, the work's going to be a little bit extra hard for me because I do struggle.
[140] And socially, it might be a little bit awkward for me. It's not my favorite place to go.
[141] And yet every single day, she gets up out of bed and she gets out, she walks with her dog, and she handles her anxiety.
[142] And when we're so busy trying to fix what we think is wrong, we misaffirming her and saying, honey, it was awesome.
[143] Every day this week you got up.
[144] No one knows how much courage that takes.
[145] Really proud of you.
[146] Or writing it as a note because sometimes writing a note makes it less awkward and they don't push back on our praise.
[147] So when you affirm your kids, even matter of fact, very low -key, just simple statements, right?
[148] Don't make a big deal because mom tried to make a big deal out of her hair.
[149] Oh, honey, I noticed that you cut your hair.
[150] And the daughter said, no, I didn't.
[151] because she doesn't want to draw attention to it.
[152] Honor that, right?
[153] And so I want you to affirm, and in this case, we've got a girl who has fought through many, many things, and she did a great job.
[154] She doesn't have clumps in her hair now because she cut her own hair.
[155] Did she do it the way you wanted to do it?
[156] Absolutely not.
[157] Will she ever?
[158] Maybe not.
[159] She'll only do it, though, when she determines that she really wants it and she's ready.
[160] you can spend your time working on yourself and accepting her as she is and throwing yourself into one of your passions instead of your only passion life being fixing and controlling my children and making sure that they're perfect so I feel good as a parent so I don't have any anxiety and so I'm not embarrassed by them stop putting all of your energy into that throw your energy into something your passion about something you haven't been able to do since you've had kids and your kids are going to be much happier.
[161] You will be much happier.
[162] Go through the 30 Days to Calm program because that will teach you.
[163] We go through and identify all your triggers and we show you a different way to handle it.
[164] And that's in the Calm Parenting Package or the Get Everything package.
[165] But that's what I just felt like highlighting today and learning about your strong -willed child because there's a whole program for that.
[166] Enjoy your strong -willed child because I want you enjoying the strong -willed child instead of always thinking there's something wrong with them and you have to fix them.
[167] this mom is doing something very courageous and I wanted to affirm her on the call and say I'm not only proud of your daughter for handling this herself something very difficult I'm proud of you mom because you are facing down patterns in your life fears anxiety embarrassment emotions that you have had for 40 plus years and yet you're doing it and you're handling it and you're stepping back and you're zipping your mouth sometimes and you're gritting your teeth and bearing it but you're controlling yourself and you're affirming your daughter and she notices and she's trusting you more that is hard to do at times and yet this mom is doing it and many of you are doing it and i'm proud of you too so that's what i'm calling you to for two reasons one it works better and two, you will build trust with your child, which is what you wanted anyway, right?
[168] So let's work on that this week and enjoy the strong will child.
[169] Okay, if you need help with it, reach out to us.
[170] We will be thrilled to help you.
[171] You email Casey at Celebratecolum .com.
[172] Hopefully, we'll see some of you at live events.
[173] We're starting to travel again, which is awesome.
[174] And hopefully we get to see in person.
[175] If you want to send your community, reach out to Casey and invite us.
[176] We'll come.
[177] We want to travel.
[178] and we want to meet people in person.
[179] Hey, thank you for listening and we'll talk to you soon.
[180] Bye -bye.