Today our family went to a family reunion.  It was a great day, but also a long one.  We got home late.  My four year old fell asleep on the way home. 
After waking up, he came in to go potty, get dressed and go to bed.  From the bathroom I heard crying.  He was in [...]

“In your post about 13 - and defiant, you mentioned that teens goes through a normal detachment. Can you tell what is normal and give me some resources that you recommend for learning about teen behaviors?”
In generations before ours, youth age 12-18 were beginning their adult lives.  They started apprenticing for real professions.  They began [...]

“For clarification, when I describe a child’s inappropriate behavior, do I stop there? Do I ever need to say or do more?”
When someone else’s child is misbehaving you can describe the bad behavior and/or tell them the appropriate behavior, you can tell them what they are communicating to you and others, and what the effects [...]

   Being over critical of things that don’t really matter, like table manners, personal grooming, age appropriate actions, and school grades tells the child that you don’t accept them for who they are or are trying to be.
  
   I have met many men and women who have struggled with this very sort of [...]

I was sitting on the couch today going over plans for our next trip when my six year old daughter, Londyn, sat down next to me and said, “We have to go to Virginia because you want to make the world better, don’t you?  Not just our family, but other families too.” 
 I said, “Yes” and [...]

In order to teach our children how to govern themsleves in a family setting, we have to give them a vision, or picture of what the family is working toward.  This vision, or goal, begins the family’s mission.   The vision, goal, or dream is the first thing the family starts with to acheive mission. 
The concept of [...]

     “Mommy, what makes the moon shine?”  Londyn, my six year old asked me tonight. 
     “The moon reflects the light of the sun.”  I told her.
     After a brief discussion about the moon and the sun, I realized that her question was really profound.  Innocence almost always finds truth.  I am grateful for that. 
     The [...]

“…cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things.” 
We can not change cause and effect no matter how we try.  Bad will always produce bad for someone and good will always produce good for someone.  The law of cause and effect [...]

          In my seminars I tell a story about when I did the swimming leg of a triathlon and the life lessons I learned from that experience.  I am not going to restate all the lessons we discuss in depth in the seminar today.  Instead, I want to bring up a few other lessons from [...]

I was talking with a dear friend tonight about parenting.  She told me that she was doing so good with the Teaching Self Government principles in her home for about a month.  She said she really saw results whenever she remembered the principles and used them.  Then she said that her family went on a [...]