Mommy Lectures Don't Work. This does.

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[24] Hey, everybody.

[25] This is Kirk Martin, founders Celebrate Calm.

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[28] Hey, we're coming up on Mother's Day here, and here's what I want for the moms out there.

[29] I want your kids to listen to you.

[30] I want them to respect you.

[31] I want to get you out of this mode of always having to plead and bribe and cajole and explain and try to convince them to do things so that you're not always at your wits end and frustrated and tired and exhausted.

[32] I want this to change, so let's do this, this Mother's Day.

[33] Because I don't want mothers today to just be one simple day where your husband and kids just get you a couple of little things.

[34] I want you to change this for all 365 days of the year, not just one day.

[35] So you want your kids to listen to you, and most of the time they don't, and they don't respect you.

[36] And part of the reason is that you talk in this sweet voice, use these sweet little mommy lectures, and listen, this is not meant to offend you.

[37] I want to help you.

[38] I want to change things.

[39] But we're going to have to tackle this.

[40] You talk in this sweet voice and you try to explain things and convince your kids to listen and to care about what you care about and they don't.

[41] And it sounds really sweet to you, but it sounds like weakness to your strong will child.

[42] It sounds condescending to them, right?

[43] And then when that sweet tone doesn't work, then you start to get personal.

[44] after all I do for you I am sick and tired of asking you over and over again you guys never listen to me and then you get upset and you sound needy and dependent and your kids know that you're exhausted and all they have to do is push your buttons a little bit and then you're just going to lose it and I want to stop the mommy lectures that simply don't work look I'm very serious about this I mean no people always hear it like yeah yeah I'll do that no it's not that.

[45] You want your kids to listen to respect you.

[46] You're going to have to change some things and do it differently.

[47] It's going to make you very uncomfortable.

[48] But you're going to have to talk to your strong will child.

[49] I don't care if they're four or 14 or 24.

[50] You're going to have to talk to them like an adult in an even matter -of -fact tone with no emotion in the voice.

[51] You're not going to plead.

[52] It's not getting exhausted.

[53] It's going to sound very cold to you.

[54] It's going to sound unemotional.

[55] But you know what else it sounds like to your kids?

[56] It sounds confident and authoritative to your child, right?

[57] Because when you talk to your child like an adult, because I expect you to act like a grown -up.

[58] Does that make sense?

[59] I'm going to talk to you like an adult because I don't care if you're 3 or 13, 23.

[60] I expect you to act like a grown -up.

[61] But here's what we do, right, when we're talking about food and nutrition.

[62] You know what, guys, I made you dinner, and I don't have time for you to be picky.

[63] and it's important for you to eat a healthy, right?

[64] And you go on and on and on and your kids just tune you out.

[65] And they literally don't care about all these reasons.

[66] I want you to learn how to be short and sweet and confident.

[67] And just let your kids know, this is my expectation.

[68] Here's what's happening.

[69] You don't have to explain things.

[70] And it's not their, look, it's not their fault that you don't have time and you're doing all these things for them.

[71] That's your issue of doing too much for them.

[72] them.

[73] But look, when you explain things, you invite pushback and arguments from your strong -willed child, and it's just wasted words.

[74] Right?

[75] It's when we fall into that thing of like, honey, mommy, mommy wants you to get your shoes on now, okay?

[76] And your child is like, uh, no, it's not okay.

[77] But you just asked for their permission to do it instead of leading them.

[78] Right?

[79] Here's another one.

[80] You know, honey, we don't use that kind of language in our home.

[81] Well, uh, apparently you do.

[82] But that sweet little mommy voice doesn't inspire them to lead you.

[83] It's not confident and authoritative.

[84] It's like those ones are like, honey, it's really important that you tell the truth because if you don't tell the truth and you continue to lie, then we're not going to be able to trust you.

[85] And if we can't, look, they already know all of that.

[86] And I'm going to handle this particular one with lying in a future podcast solely by itself.

[87] But they don't need to be convinced that lying is wrong.

[88] They already know that.

[89] What they need are some practical tools to stop the line.

[90] It's like that thing of when we say, honey, let's say child's really upset.

[91] Honey, let's talk about your feelings.

[92] No, they don't need to talk all the time about their feelings.

[93] Now, I'm great with drawing kids in and listening.

[94] I don't want to bury emotions.

[95] But when they're upset, they don't need someone to sit and talk to them about their feelings.

[96] It sounds really condescending like you're not taking it seriously.

[97] And what you're doing is you're actually frustrating your kids even more by talking too much.

[98] No, when they're upset, what they need is for a grown -up and a leader, a parent to show them what to do with their frustration, what to do with their disappointment, what to do with their anger.

[99] They need specific action steps, not just to talk about it.

[100] And so The idea is, I want you to go from being someone who lectures your kids or who tries to convince them to do the right thing to an authoritative leader who teaches your kids and shows them how to make better choices.

[101] Right?

[102] That's an entirely different.

[103] One is kind of pushing, right?

[104] Like, guys, I really need you to listen and I need you to do this because it's really important, right?

[105] If you would just, look, if you ever use the words, it's really important.

[106] You know, you're going, down the wrong path because now you're kind of pushing and you're needing them to say mom you're so filled with wisdom we can't believe that you they're never going to do that so you need to teach and show so let's do an example with siblings right because this is a hard one and look I want you to have confidence I want you to be confident in what you're doing and I think a large part of this in the parents that we work with and we've worked with about 750 ,000 parents all across the world.

[107] It's the same issue.

[108] You're not confident.

[109] And what you need, you need to know what to say in that moment, and you need to know how to say it.

[110] And I know I hammer on this, but the reason I do is because it's life -changing.

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[112] Listen to our audio CDs.

[113] You can get them as physical downloads or you can get physical CDs or audio downloads to multiple devices so your husband, your wife, your parents, your teachers, everybody can listen.

[114] But I want you to listen because we show you in literally dozens and dozens of examples exactly what to say and how to say it.

[115] So we model it.

[116] You actually have a script to use or look on our website.

[117] You get the no BS program.

[118] It's an instruction manual for raising a strong -willed child.

[119] By the way, you can go, I'll mention this now.

[120] Go to our website, celebrate calm .com, and you do forward slash either moms, M -O -M -M -S, and we've got a Mother's Day sale.

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[123] Look at that program.

[124] It's phenomenal.

[125] And I'm super excited about it because it's changing the dynamic between parents and strong will kids, right?

[126] So take advantage of that.

[127] If you need help with it, call or email my son.

[128] It's 888 -506, 1871, or Casey, C -A -S -E -Y at Celebrate Calm .com, and he'll help you out.

[129] but look here's what we do with um with siblings as we go and say you know what guys i buy you all these toys and all these video games you can't even play well together for 20 minutes it's really important that you two learn how to get along because one day you're going to be best friends blah blah blah and they don't listen but when you're authoritative leader and you know what's really going on and that's partly why i want you to listen to all of the materials and get the CDs is because we give you insight into what's really happening because then I can walk into that room completely in control of myself when those kids are squabbling with each other and sit on the floor, sit down, say, guys, look, I know what's about to happen here.

[130] I've seen this scene unfold in our home like 87 times this month.

[131] Child number one, you've got this great brain that's really, really busy.

[132] And you need your brain to be stimulated, right?

[133] That's why you're always tapping pencils and fidgeting, doodling.

[134] Right?

[135] It's why you get bored sometimes because you like a challenge, and I love that about you.

[136] So when you get bored, what you do is you end up picking on your sister.

[137] Because you know, every time you pick on her, just look at her or almost poke her without actually even touching her, it drives her crazy.

[138] And she starts complaining and whining.

[139] and as soon as she does that, I come in the room and I start yelling at you to leave your sister alone.

[140] And guess what happened?

[141] That just stimulated your brain.

[142] But it's entirely negative because you need your sister to respond because if she doesn't react to you, then you're going to have to amp it up and then you get in even more trouble.

[143] And that's part of the downside too is every time you pick on your sister, you just get in trouble.

[144] So I apologize to you for sending the message that the best way to get my attention and intensity is to do something wrong.

[145] Inadvertly, I've made your brain believe that the only way that you can meet that need is to do something negative in our home, and then you end up losing everything.

[146] So here's what I know about you.

[147] You love money.

[148] You really like money, and you're a born entrepreneur because you've got an initiative, right?

[149] And you're good at, look, you're good at understanding human nature.

[150] It's why you're so good at arguing and telling inappropriate jokes during the holidays about our relatives that are really inappropriate, but we can't stop laughing.

[151] Why?

[152] Because you're really good at understanding people.

[153] That's why you're so good at pushing people's buttons.

[154] And a good entrepreneur understands people and how to meet their needs.

[155] So what if we took all of this energy and started building a little side business for you right in our neighborhood?

[156] You could start earning some cash to pay for your own toys.

[157] You know what else you could do?

[158] I know that you have a really big heart.

[159] And I bet, with all that money that you make, you could give some money away to help homeless people, to help kids with cancer and make a difference in this world, instead of just picking on your sister and getting in trouble.

[160] So you let me know if you want, I'll brainstorm three different ways for you to earn some money.

[161] Because I can see you doing this.

[162] I think that would be really cool.

[163] Now, daughter, I know what just happened.

[164] Your brother just walked into the room.

[165] You find him irritating.

[166] Why?

[167] Because he's breathing.

[168] But listen, if all you're ever going to do is react to irritating people or situations in life, you're going to be miserable.

[169] And I can't help you out with that.

[170] And I'm not raising you just to react to other people because I don't want you to go through life, kind of being a little victim with this stuff.

[171] I want you to take charge of your own reactions because guess what?

[172] You get to choose how you respond to your brother.

[173] And if instead of just reacting to him, whining and complaining all the time, if you want to come and help me cook dinner or go for a walk, I'll show you three different ways to respond to your brother so that you learn how to have self -confidence, so you learn how to stick up for yourself, so that you learn how to be assertive about your needs and redirect your brother from poking you to doing something constructive.

[174] Or, look, you guys have this choice too.

[175] You guys just keep irritating each other for the rest of your childhood and be miserable.

[176] I'm okay either way, just let me know what you want.

[177] And I get up and walk out of that room and I start to lead them to a different place.

[178] but see, I'm not trying to be really sweet with them.

[179] I'm not trying to convince them that they need to like each other because I can't and you can't.

[180] So you have to start leading and using this even matter of fact tone and you have to start teaching your kids.

[181] And so I want you to, I want us to change this.

[182] I want you to be the confident teacher and leader that your kids respect and listen to.

[183] not the worn out exhausted at your wits end flailing and pleading to get kids to listen to mom so take action with this look for mother's day i want you to get what you really want right you want answers you want peace in your home you want to not have to walk on eggshells anymore around your husband when he comes home from work or around that volatile child you want confidence and you want respect so let's get it right right now.

[184] Let's go for it so that by this time next year for Mother's Day, your entire family life will be completely changed.

[185] You know what?

[186] It's not going to take a year.

[187] You start working at this.

[188] Look, here's the beautiful thing.

[189] You have so much more power over what your kids do, not by controlling them, because the only person in life that you can control is yourself.

[190] And when you learn how to control yourself and do this, your kid's response to you will change.

[191] it's very very very powerful and listen you're going to have to take action and it's just talking doesn't work we were to workshop the other night a mom came out and she said yeah i heard my daughter i overheard my daughter tell her friend don't worry my mom says lots of things but she won't ever really do anything so let's do something moms let's change this and i guarantee you within a month things will be different.

[192] Within a week, a lot of things will be different.

[193] I guarantee you start using this tone overnight you will see some things change.

[194] So go to the website, get what you want.

[195] Stop waiting for your kids and your husband to get you something that you don't even want for Mother's Day and speak up and be a servant say, this is what I want, a new family, I'm going to be a new person, this is what I want for Mother's Day.

[196] And you go to celebrate calm .com forward slash moms, M -O -M -O -M -S, and be confident and say, I want this.

[197] Or go to celebrate calm .com forward slash N -O -B -S.

[198] Get one of or both of those programs.

[199] And as you listen to it, you email me and you say, Kirk, I listen to this podcast.

[200] I got your stuff I'm listening.

[201] Here's what I'm struggling with.

[202] Will you help me?

[203] And I will always say, yes, I'm here to walk alongside you on this journey so that your family life can be different.

[204] and so that you can enjoy being a mom again.

[205] I want you to enjoy being a mom again, right?

[206] Instead of always being at your wits end, let's enjoy it and change it.

[207] So if we can help you in any way, reach out to us, email my son, Casey, C -A -S -E -Y at CelebrateCallum .com.

[208] He was just as difficult and strong -willed as your kids, and now you get to talk to him or email him and interact with him, and it will help you and give you hope to know that it can be different and it will be different.

[209] So thank you for being a mom.

[210] You're awesome.

[211] You're a good mom.

[212] Let's make changes today.

[213] Don't wait for it.

[214] Thank you so much for listening.

[215] Bye -bye.