So you give a strong will child a simple instruction. You just ask them to complete a simple task and if they would simply do what you ask them to do, they'd be done in seven minutes.

But the strong will child would rather argue with you for seven hours or days or weeks or months and years and lose everything they own.

Why do your kids do this and how can you change this dynamic?

That is what we're going to discuss on today's episode of the Calm Parenting

Podcast.

Welcome, this is Kirk Martin.

You can find us at celebrate Calm.com.

If you need help, reach out to our strong-willed son who is

great at goading us with a twinkle in his eyes. It's Casey, C-A-S-E-Y, celebrate-C-C-A-C-C-A-S-E-Y at Celebrate Calm. Calm. Tell us about your family, ages of the kids,

what are you struggling with?

We get together as a family, discuss it,

we will apply back to you personally,

usually very quickly with specific strategies you can use. That's our mission. So you've

got a child who will purposefully goad you and sometimes makes things harder on

themselves rather than simply doing what you ask.

And it can be infuriating.

It can be puzzling to many of you.

But it actually makes perfect sense

if you understand what motivates and drives

strong-willed kids.

Now I'm going to go through a specific example,

but let's begin with a quick overview of what is

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