Defiant, Disrespectful Child: A Script to Repair Your Relationship #464

Calm Parenting Podcast

Kirk Martin

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Defiant, Disrespectful Child: A Script to Repair Your Relationship #464 You have a challenging child who says disrespectful things to you. You would be justified in punishing this child, but that won’t fix the underlying relationship that’s strained or broken. This is a powerful real life story with a script and action steps to repair this relationship with a strong-willed child. Share with Dads. These ideas are from the No B.S. Program, part of the Get Everything Package now 50% OFF with our Spring Sale at https://celebratecalm.com/products AG1 AG1 is offering new subscribers a FREE $76 gift when you sign up. You’ll get a Welcome Kit, a bottle of D3 & K2 AND 5 free travel packs in your first box. Go to https://drinkag1.com/calm HAPPY MAMMOTH Get 15% off on your entire first order at https://HappyMammoth.com with the code CALM at checkout. ONE SKIN Go to https://oneskin.co and use code KIRK at checkout for an exclusive 15% off your first purchase. COZY EARTH Wrap yourself and your kids in Cozy Earth luxury…with 40% OFF! Visit https://cozyearth.com/ and use my exclusive 40% off code CALM. HUNGRYROOT Get 40% off your first box PLUS get a free item in every box for life. Go to https://hungryroot.com/ and use code CALM. IXL LEARNING Get an exclusive 20% off an IXL membership when you sign up today at https://IXL.com/KIRK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I cannot imagine feeling irritable or tired all the time, not to mention not sleeping well because of night sweats and hormonal changes.
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1:03.7	with the code calm. So I'll start with a confession that many of you have heard me say before.
1:13.6	I did not like our son when he was young. He was so challenging.
1:15.6	Everything was hard, putting your shoes on, eating, going to bed, doing school work.
1:20.6	He was really emotional with these really intense meltdowns.
1:24.6	And all it did was provoke my own immaturity. It was not his issue. It was
1:29.7	my issue and it forced me to grow up. But I'd spent the first like seven years of his life just
1:37.1	trying to fix and change him until I finally discovered that I was the one that needed to change.
1:43.5	But in that process, I nearly destroyed our
1:45.9	relationship and I nearly destroyed our son. So how can you recover from this when you and your
1:53.7	strong will child are opposites? Or worse yet, you're just alike. Or maybe you have a spouse who just is not connecting with your
2:03.4	strong-willed child and you can see this divide starting to happen or it's well along its way.
2:10.2	How do you repair that? That is what we're going to discuss on this episode of the Calm Parenting
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