5 Ways to Stop Anxiety-Driven Battles & Meltdowns

Calm Parenting Podcast

Kirk Martin

Education, Social Sciences, Science, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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5 Ways to Stop Anxiety-Driven Battles & Meltdowns Your child refuses to go to a new place or school. Threats and bribes don't work. A meltdown and harsh words ensue. Do you have a child who resists new experiences? A toddler or teen who doesn't want to go to school? Kirk shows you how to de-escalate anxiety-driven meltdowns and give your kids tools to overcome it. Very practical for kids of all ages. The Calm Parenting Podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Take a moment. Visit https://BetterHelp.comcom/CALM today to get 10% off your first month. Visit https://drinkAG1.com/calm for a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3K2 AND 5 free AG1 Travel Packs with your first purchase. Head to https://acorns.com/calm or download the Acorns app to start saving and investing for your future today! AirDoctor comes with a 30-day money back guarantee so if you don’t love it, just send it back for a refund, minus shipping! Head to https://airdoctorpro.com/ and use promo code CALM and you’ll receive UP TO $300 off air purifiers! Today my listeners receive 20% OFF any AquaTru purifier! Just go to https://AquaTru.com and enter code “CALM “ at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.3	Do you have a child who struggles with new experiences who sometimes want doesn't want to go to some new activity you signed him or her up for?
0:40.0	A lot of these kids will resist going to school in the morning and you'll threaten consequences and you'll try to bribe them and give them things everything.
0:50.0	And nothing rational works because it's not rational. It's anxiety.
0:56.4	Anxiety is a very common thing for our kids to struggle with.
1:01.5	Remember we've talked about these kids they have very busy brains
1:03.8	there's a lot going on in there and so it feels like they're like it's kind of out of
1:07.9	control for them and that's why they try to control other people in situations.
1:12.9	It's why with board games, they're going to change the rules of the game,
1:15.5	cheat or quit, because that's a way to control or guarantee
1:19.3	the outcome of the game.
1:21.4	It's why all those things that wear the same clothes,
1:24.0	eat the same food all the time.
1:25.8	But this is where anxiety comes from.
1:28.2	It comes from unknowns.
1:30.3	So the antidote to that, and I going to give you some very specific examples today are
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