How to De-Escalate A Nuclear Meltdown & Stop The Shame Cycle

Calm Parenting Podcast

Kirk Martin

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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How to De-Escalate A Nuclear Meltdown & Stop The Shame Cycle Plans go awry, your child gets disappointed or doesn’t get his way. He begins getting upset. Rational talk doesn’t work. Nothing does. Now he’s in full meltdown mode and doesn’t hold back. How do you stop this cycle of shame and escalation? Kirk gives a very practical and creative strategy to use. This is incredibly important. Our Mother's Day Sale Begins NOW! Visit https://celebratecalm.com/mothers-day/ to purchase the Get Everything Package at the lowest prices of the year. Questions? Need help? Email [email protected] and Casey will help you personally. Visit https://www.oneskin.co and use code KIRK to get 15% off. 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So something goes awry and your child who can't handle disappointment well doesn't like changes and plans begins to melt down.
0:09.0	He's angry, frustrated, disappointment, disappointed, and nothing's working. You try rational talk. He gets more
0:15.8	upset and says really disrespectful things or lashes out or throw something and
0:21.3	breaks it and that's over the line.
0:23.4	So naturally you say, well, because you just lashed out
0:26.6	or threw that and broke that,
0:28.0	you're going to lose your sleep over
0:30.5	with your best friend or you lose car privileges for the next three days and then
0:36.1	your child really loses it. So how do you prevent this? How can we handle this
0:41.8	situation differently? I want to give you a really cool strategy to use
0:45.0	and that's what we're going to discuss on this special
0:48.0	Mother's Day edition of the Calm Parenting Podcast.
0:51.0	So welcome, this is Kirk Martin,
0:52.0	I'm founder of Celebrate Combe. You can find us at calm C-A-S-E-Y at Celebrate Calm. Tell us about your family, your kids, age of the kids, what are they struggling with?
1:06.2	We get together as a family, we discuss it, we reply back to you personally, usually very quickly,
1:11.3	and with some practical tips, and that's what we do and if you talk
1:14.6	to Casey here's what you're gonna find he was this kid right this is where we
1:18.8	learned a lot of this and we invited 1500 kids into our home over the course of a decade, all emotionally responsive,
1:26.1	reactive, sometimes violent kids, kids with attachment issues, adopted kids, foster kids, all kinds of different kids on the spectrum.
1:34.5	So if you reach out to us, you're talking to people who have been through this, and if you're
1:39.9	dealing with Casey, he was the one who was really, really would get upset and frustrated like this.
1:46.0	So, by the way, I mentioned his Mother's Day.
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