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Have a strong-willed child who doesn't respond to consequences, argues like an attorney, and refuses to do things your way? Good! You're in the right place. Celebrate Calm Founder Kirk Martin has given over 1,000,000 parents and teachers around the world practical, life-changing strategies to stop power struggles, yelling, and defiance NOW. Based on work with 1,500 challenging kids (many with AD/HD, OCD, ODD, ASD, etc.) in his home, and years spent in classrooms, Kirk's approach is refreshin ...
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Every week, Anton Vialtsin (California attorney and YouTuber) discusses legal cases from the Supreme Court, 9th Circuit, and California State Courts. We focus on the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Eighth Amendments. We make predictions and scrutinize the law. Anton Vialtsin handled over a hundred federal criminal cases from initial client interviews through sentencing. He has an in-depth knowledge of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the Federal Criminal Codes and Rules, mandatory-minimu ...
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Complaining, Bored kids and Judgmental Relatives (Vacation Tips) You often get judged by relatives because your strong-willed child doesn’t behave the right way. How can you prepare your kids for the unknowns of family vacation? What do you say when kids are bored or complain the entire time? Kirk provides concrete strategies and scripts to use wit…
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Social Skills & Sibling Squabbles #2 Kirk shows you an alternative way to deal with sibling squabbles that builds confidence and gives practical tools to help with social skills and back-to-school anxiety. We are extending our Summer Sale for the month of July. Visit https://celebratecalm.com/products/ to purchase the Get Everything Package at the …
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Social Skills & Sibling Squabbles #1 Do you have kids who struggle to connect with peers, dominate conversations, get bossy with siblings or friends? Kids who are anxious about going to Camp or back to school? Kirk gives you a new way to look at these situations and practical tools to help your kids be confident. We are extending our Summer Sale fo…
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3 Ways to Help Frustrated Kids So They Don't Beat Themselves Up This podcast is jampacked with three big insights that WILL change your home and your child. How do you shift your focus when your child is frustrated, melting down, beating himself up? Kirk shows you three ways to change negative patterns and help your kids calm themselves down and fe…
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The knock-and-talk exception permits police “to encroach upon the curtilage of a home, for the purpose of asking questions of the occupants.” United States v. Lundin, 817 F.3d 1158,1158 (9th Cir. 2016) (cleaned up). The exception is based on the theory of implied consent: a resident's consent is implied from the custom of treating the “knocker on t…
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How to Stop Entitlement, Build Resilience & Stop Being Referee With Siblings? How can you help your kids be responsible for their own behavior, choices, failures, and sibling fights without being the fixer or referee? How can you stop feelings of entitlement and teach resilience in kids of all ages? Want to learn a great phrase to communicate that …
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Navigating Neurodiversity: 8 Tips for Parenting Your Unique Child with Holly Blanc Moses I absolutely loved this discussion with therapist Holly Moses, host of the Autism ADHD Podcast. We covered practical ways to foster emotional resilience and confidence, help kids with anxiety, challenge social stigmas, and help calm emotionally dysregulated kid…
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Around 4:00 a.m. on April 23, 2013, three northern California law enforcement officers approached Defendant Eric Lundin's home without either an arrest warrant or a search warrant. They came onto his front porch and knocked on his door *1155 with the intent of arresting him. From the front porch where they were standing, the officers heard crashing…
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Handling A Demanding Child Without Losing Your Mind (Give Their Brain A Win) Do you have a child who comes downstairs in the morning (afternoon and evening) DEMANDING things or with a single-minded focus on doing something? You rightfully and reasonably say no to their request and it sets off a huge power struggle, meltdowns, constant arguing, thro…
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7 Ways to Stop Emotional Fireworks & Meet Sensory Needs The meltdowns and angry responses ARE going to happen. Kirk shares 7 quick ways to stop the emotional fireworks, plan for these situations, and help kids who seek sensory pressure/stimulation. This is very practical and jam-packed with ideas. We are extending our Summer Sale for the month of J…
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On March 8, 2008, Fuentes reported a domestic disturbance at his residence. The officers searched the residence and found a Nagant bolt-action rifle, ammunition, methamphetamine, a glass pipe with methamphetamine residue, and a metal pipe with marijuana residue. The officers believed the Nagant rifle was the same one that a third party had previous…
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In New York, auditors discovered that the controversial gunshot-detection system ShotSpotter wasted officers’ time with false alerts, identifying gunshots correctly only 13% of the time. The city has spent more than $45 million on the technology, and must now decide whether to renew its contract. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/nyregion/nypd-sho…
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Fights Over Chores, Sibling Fairness, Tough Discipline Do you have kids who fight you over chores, have selective hearing (i.e. can't hear parents!), and don't listen well? Kirk uses chores to show you five different tools to use in different situations: tough discipline, collaboration, problem solving, and realistic approaches you will hate at fir…
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Adrick Ruckes ("Ruckes") was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm and possessing cocaine base with the intent to distribute following a search of his automobile. He moved to suppress the evidence discovered during that search: a 9mm handgun and over six grams of crack cocaine. After an evidentiary hearing, Judge Franklin D. Burgess…
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Relentless Arguer, Gets Last Word In, Demands Fairness? Do you have a child who is a relentless arguer, has to get the last word in, prove his or her point, and/or has a strong sense of justice and fairness? Do you have that infamous cop, judge and attorney all wrapped into one living under your roof? Kirk shows you how to use these traits to your …
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3 Shocking Thoughts Strong-Willed Kids Want to Share With You If your strong-willed child could verbalize what they are feeling, this is what they would tell you. I hope you find this insight helpful in understanding a child who often feels misunderstood—which leads to anger, defiance and power struggles. We can change this. Let your child listen--…
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The Fourth Amendment, of course, provides that “[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.” U.S. Const. amend. IV. The Supreme Court has recently emphasized that this text “establishes a simple baseline”—namely, “[w]hen the Government obtai…
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Discipline Without Being Angry or Permissive How can you discipline a strong-willed child without being angry and frustrated? How can you discipline without letting your child get away with things? In this Father's Day episode, Kirk gives Dads (and Moms) specific strategies to discipline AND build a closer relationship with your child. Our Summer S…
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Why You Want Your Kids to Say, “No.” A kid says, “No, I don’t want to hug grandma or say hi to my Mom’s friend or do this assignment.” The compliant child is labeled the “good” girl or boy. The child who is honest, speaks up, and has the courage to say no is often labeled as difficult and defiant. Kirk shows you why it’s critical that you teach you…
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After an anonymous caller reported to the Miami-Dade Police that a young black male standing at a particular bus stop and wearing a plaid shirt was carrying a gun, officers went to the bus stop and saw three black males, one of whom, respondent J. L., was wearing a plaid shirt. Apart from the tip, the officers had no reason to suspect any of the th…
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Outright Defiance/Refusal: My Best Podcast of 2024 Do you have a child who ever acts outright defiant or refuses to do what you ask? Who then has attitude? How do you handle this without being authoritarian (fear, escalating) or being too sweet (getting walked all over and creating an entitled child)? Kirk shows you how to teach your child while st…
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Feeling Powerless with Video Games? 2 Ways to Take Back Control You don’t have to give in or operate from fear. Kirk shares some fascinating insight into your kids’ brains (it will surprise you) that you must understand first. Then he shares very specific strategies to motivate your kids, build their confidence, and take back control of screens. Se…
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Justin Wells Grigg appeals the district court's denial of his motion to suppress an unregistered automatic firearm that police officers discovered while conducting an investigative stop of Grigg pursuant to a citizen's complaint that Grigg had been playing his car stereo at an excessive volume earlier in the day. Most of the constitutional principl…
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4 Ways to Stop Power Struggles & Control Yourself Everything you have tried with the strong-willed child has backfired. Want to finally stop the power struggles and get control of yourself? Let's spend this summer working on these four specific ways to change yourself and your family very quickly. Our Summer Sale Begins NOW. Visit https://celebrate…
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Tough Teens & Tweens 101: Motivation, Screens, School Refusal, Defiance and More Do you have an unmotivated teen or tween who battles you over homework and screens? Who refuses to go to school, struggles with confidence, has shut down or become defiant? In this hard-hitting episode, Kirk gives you strategies to rebuild your teen's confidence and re…
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After Corban Elmore’s teenage son suffered a drug overdose at Elmore’s home, law-enforcement officers secured the scene and prohibited anyone from entering the house. The officers then continued to investigate and allowed almost eight hours to elapse before applying for a search warrant. Once they had a warrant in hand, the officers searched Elmore…
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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…
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Justice Department Publishes Proposed Rule to Reclassify Cannabis, Begins Accepting Public Comments The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) proposes to transfer marijuana from schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) to schedule III of the CSA. If marijuana is transferred into schedule III, the manufacture, distribution, dispensing, and posses…
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During the evening hours of January 5, 2019, officers were dispatched to Dane Arredondo's ("Dane") house on a neighbor's report of a woman screaming and crying inside the residence. When the officers arrived, they entered the home without consent to check on the woman. They found her downstairs, extremely intoxicated but apparently unharmed. While …
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Are You Letting Kids “Get Away” With Things? You are going to get judged by other parents, family and friends who whisper that you are letting your SWC get away with things. You will second-guess yourself. People will say, “You just need to discipline that child more.” And you’ll think in your heart, “Hey, thanks, I never thought before to try bein…
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Ninth Circuit Holds Felon-in-Possession Unconstitutional as to Non-Violent Offenders After Bruen May 9th 2024, in United States v. Duarte, No. 22-50048 (9th Cir. May 9, 2024), a split panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that under New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), § 922(g)(1) violate…
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