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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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 2 months 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…
1 year, 2 months 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…
1 year, 2 months 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 …
1 year, 2 months ago
How To Be A Dad Your Kids Listen To #484
Episode 70
How To Be A Dad Your Kids Listen To
It’s really hard for some Dads to connect with their strong-willed child. So they end up sabotaging the relationsh…
1 year, 2 months ago