One more tip for making time-out effective.
If your son doesn’t say OK to anything, take him to time-out.  If you say NO, and he whines, he goes to time-out.  If you tell him to do something, and he doesn’t say, OK, he goes to time-out.  If he hurts another person, he goes to time-out.  He [...]

“My almost 3 yo fights and kicks and cries when I take him to time-out (I have to carry him there), and then cries very loudly and even will scream at me when I’m telling him that he needs to stay there until he can become happy.  My husband thinks all of this is very [...]

There will be a 7 hour Teaching Self Government Seminar on January 24, 2009
at Clearfield Community Church at 200 S. 500 E. in Clearfield, Utah  84015 from 9-5 pm with a one-hour, off-campus lunch.  All are invited to attend. 
Cost: $35/person and $40/couple
Contact person ~ Becky Goodrich  mktmajors@juno.com 

“I met you at your recent Stansbury Seminar.  It was so great!  I could have listened for days.  I can’t get my daughter to stop sleeping in my bed.  She is three years old, and I don’t think she should still be sleeping in my bed.  No matter what I do, she has a fit [...]

The very first time I was asked to speak to a group of people about Teaching Self Government, I was in such a rush.  I tried to tell the audience everything they would need to make all the changes necessary to become the parents they wanted to be, and to have the learning environment for [...]

My children love playing with the kids next door, but it seems that the neighbor kids do something rude/unkind every few weeks (or more often).  I’m not naive enough to believe that my kids are always totally without blame, but I am good friends with mother of these kids, and she has told me several [...]

How do you help your children stand up for what’s right without being “preachy” or “goody-goody”?
The most important skill you can teach your child is how to determine what is right and what is wrong and how to choose right and stay away from wrong.  This is the whole reason children need parents.  If my child [...]

How do you help your children respond appropriately to unkind behavior and deal with conflicts? 
I am assuming this question is referring to conflicts with friends and not siblings, although the conflicts aren’t too much different.  In fact, in most cases if we all treated each other like friends instead of siblings, we would all [...]

 ”How do these things change as your children get older?”
Too much friend time makes children selfish.  Children who are around peers too often start to think more about their peers than their family.  This focus on self encourages them to with draw from family. 
If children have limited contact with peers when they are young, they [...]

How often do your children play with friends, and under what conditions?  How do these things change as your children get older?  How do you help your children respond appropriately to unkind behavior and deal with conflicts?  How do you help your children stand up for what’s right without being “preachy” or “goody-goody”?
These great questions [...]