Anxiety, School Refusal, & Defiance: 5 Strategies That Work

Calm Parenting Podcast

Kirk Martin

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Anxiety, School Refusal, & Defiance: 5 Strategies That Work What do you say and do when a child struggles with anxiety, refuses to go to school, has separation anxiety, or makes defiant comments? Kirk gives parents (and teachers) 5 concrete, specific strategies that work. We have extended our Summer Sale for one final week. Visit https://celebratecalm.com/products/ to purchase the Get Everything Package at the lowest prices of the year. BETTER HELP The Calm Parenting Podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Take a moment. Visit https://BetterHelp.com/CALMPOD today to get 10% off your first month. AG1 Visit https://drinkAG1.com/calm for a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3K2 AND 5 free AG1 Travel Packs with your first purchase. SIMPLISAFE Protect your home this summer with 20% off any new SimpliSafe system when you sign up for Fast Protect Monitoring. Just visit https://simplisafe.com/calm. AIR DOCTOR 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! AQUATRU Today my listeners receive 20% OFF any AquaTru purifier! Just go to https://AquaTru.com and enter code “CALM “ at checkout. PHYLA Tackle acne’s root causes for clearer, healthier skin for your child. Get 25% off your first order of Phyla with the code CALM. Go to https://phyla.com and type in the code CALM. K12 Join the more than 2 million families who have been served by K12, and empower your student to reach their full potential now. Go to https://www.k12.com/CALM today to learn more and find a tuition-free K12-powered school near you. HAPPY MAMMOTH For a limited time, you can get 15% off on your entire first order at https://store.happymammoth.com/ with the code CALM at checkout. That’s happymammoth.com with the code CALM. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So there are a lot of families who get excited about the first day of school and the kids are excited.
0:05.0	They've got their new clothes on a new backpack and they're going to have that first day of school picture where they're all happy and smiling. But if you're listening to
0:14.3	this podcast it may look a lot differently than that because you have a
0:18.4	strong-willed child, a neurodivergent child, and your child is going to have a lot of anxiety over school. Some of your kids
0:25.6	will just have outright refusal. They just won't go to school. So how do you
0:30.8	handle that? I want to give you five very practical strategies
0:34.9	you can use for school, and you'll be able to apply these
0:38.3	in all the different situations
0:40.1	where your kids struggle with anxiety.
0:42.8	So that is what we're going to discuss on today's episode of the Calm Parenting
0:46.3	Podcast.
0:47.3	This is Kirk Martin, founder of Celebrate Calm.
0:49.3	You can find us at Celebrate Calm.com.
0:51.5	Let's dive right into this. Look this is very personal to me. When I was a
0:55.2	little kid in kindergarten I sat outside on the front steps for the first three days of school and
1:00.9	just cried. When I was in middle school I missed
1:03.8	34 days of school and a lot of partial days always at the nurses office
1:08.8	with a stomach ache and my mom had to come pick me up from school.
1:12.8	I didn't know it then because nobody knew anything back then,
1:16.2	but looking back, it was pure anxiety.
1:19.0	And anxiety is caused by unknowns.
1:21.6	See, you have kids who tend to have very, very busy brains and
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