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Discipline Without Yelling or Giving In? 3 Questions You Must Ask #494
Why don’t consequences work? What are appropriate expectations of your child and yourself? How can we discipline without being authoritarian or permi…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Summer Sanity: 6 Ways to Build Your Child's Confidence #493
Sometimes the stress of the school year can strip your kids of their confidence and create conflict even with siblings. Kirk gives you 6 new, creativ…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
The Battle That Changed Me: How To De-Escalate & Discipline #492
I don’t know how to describe this episode other than to say it is filled with several profound and practical insights and scripts that will change yo…
11 months ago
More Scripts to Explain Your Child’s Diagnosis or Struggles (Part 2) #491
In Part 2 of this series, Kirk addresses how to get your kids to understand how their brains work best. As one child mentioned after listening to Par…
11 months ago
A Script to Explain Your Child’s Diagnosis or Struggles (Part 1) #490
How should you talk to your kids about their diagnosis or struggles? How can we do this in a positive, constructive way without shame, negativity, or…
11 months ago
10 Ways to Stop Irritating Power Struggles Without Reacting #489
Before I was the Calm Guy, I was the Triggered Guy! My default mode was, “My strong-willed son is doing things on purpose to irritate me and I need t…
11 months, 1 week ago
11 Ways to “Correct” A Strong-Willed Child Without Provoking A Battle #488
Do you have a child who HATES being corrected? Even if you do it in a very sweet way, your child gets furious, lashes out, screams or covers his or h…
11 months, 1 week ago
A Different Way to Discipline Pure Defiance (Best Podcast of 2025) #487
I have told this story before, but today a new flood of emotions came out as I realized this story with my own son…mirrored my experience with my own…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
What It Feels Like to Be A Sensitive, Strong-Willed Child #486
Your strong-willed kids experience childhood differently than other kids. Sometimes it’s hard to really understand. There’s no instruction manual for…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Anxiety Over New Activities, Summer Camp, Moving, School & More? #485
Do you have a child who fights you over going to new places or hemming and hawing about not going to that expensive camp you paid for? Do you have a …
11 months, 3 weeks ago