Support Call 5-24-19
This Call Covers:
Teaching proper emotional expression to children
Four basic skills instruction
Rule of three for strong willed children
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Accepting No Answers and Criticism
Support Call 5-3-19
This Call Covers:
Preventing excessive consequences
Going out of instructional control during the 24 hour loss of privliges
Teaching children to play independently
Children who don’t like praise
Bedtime restlessness
Helping children who are hoarders
Teaching positivity to younger children
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Support Call 4-25-19
This Call Covers:
Dealing with dogs
Hyperactive children
Teenagers growing up
Doing the four basic skills
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Lazy Chore Cure
In an ideal world, children would dutifully do their chores not only as effectively as Mom or Dad would do them, but also without delay. Unfortunately, we don’t live in an ideal world. Human brains, especially child brains, are wired to find more efficient ways to do tasks in order to save time or effort.
Sibling Squabbles
Two sisters, Becky and Sara, didn’t always get along.On the day Sara got baptized, Becky approached her older sister and said, “I think it’s stupid you got baptized.”
Support Call 4-11-19
This Call Covers:
Some thoughts on marraige
Children and therapy animals
Helping small children with homeschooling
Betime intructions
ADHD and diets
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Support Call 3-28-19
This Call Covers:
Helping spouses with follow through on consequences
Correcting children who are naturally drawn to immodesty
Stopping lying
Correcting other’s children when they are caught stealing
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Support Call 3-7-19
This Call Covers:
Helping children overcome video game addiction
Stopping negativity in children
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A Whole Selfish Family
A week ago, I was standing in the kitchen canning peaches, and my whole family atmosphere fell apart all around me in a matter of five minutes.
My son was asked by his father to help with something in the back yard. My son didn’t want to do it, so he decided to have an attitude problem about it. My husband was stressed, and chose to get upset, instead of teach to the situation correctly. (We all have our moments of weakness from time to time.)
My daughter was supposed to be cleaning her room, and was playing her piano instead. She had lost focus. (She is ten, this happens sometime
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Healthy Independence vs. Rebellion
Many parents of teen- or pre-teen-aged youth are confused about whether teenage rebellion is an attitude problem or whether the child is displaying healthy independence. When attitude problems seem like rebellion, parents wonder if rebellion is natural or simply a modern social construct that societies now think is developmentally normal. Rebellion is as old as
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Support Call 3-1-19
This Call Covers:
Helping teenagers buy into TSG
Preventing runaways
Correcting destructive behaviors
The real point of correcting children
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Support Call 2-22-19
This Call Covers:
Teaching children with developmental challenges
Raising children up to the Lord
Encouraging proper mental development during puberty
Helping husbands stay on board with TSG
Stopping negative attention seeking.
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Worry Not – Live Happy!
In his book, “The Power of Positive Thinking,” Norman Vincent Peale shares a story of a pastor talking to a painter about worrying. “Howard, don’t you ever worry?” the pastor asked the painter. The painter laughed and said, “No, not on your life. I don’t believe in it.” The painter goes on to tell how
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Support Call 2-15-19
This Call Covers:
Helping silly children who “take it too far”
Creating a Family Vision in hard times
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The Children Want to Know Why…
I once received a note from a reader about her 14-year-old son who was quite the thinker. He always wanted to know “Why?” about everything, which is wonderful, but it was leading to problems respecting authority.
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Support Call 2-1-19
This Call Covers:
Helping children calm down quickly
Correcting out of instructional control behavior
Stopping blaming
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Support Call 1-11-18
This Call Covers:
Teaching children to be self-governed while using technology.
Giving children the opportunity the opportunity to earn money and buy their own things.
Helping children resolve their own conflicts
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Support Call 1-4-19
This Call Covers:
helping children stay calm and avoid attention seeking behaviors
Helping your spouse be consistent with implementation to help the children progress
Teaching children to play.
The proper way to make decisions for your children.
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Ah, 3-Year-Olds!
I once heard from a mother who was struggling with her three-year-old. The girl didn’t take “No” answers well, even when they practiced. When she earned a consequence she either wouldn’tdothe chore or would holler if it was the removal of a privilege.If the mother gave her a “No” answer to anything, the girl would flop on the floor and scream. If she didn’t get what she wanted from her siblings, she would yell and hit them.She was a sweet girl, but she was also very strong-willed and determined to get her way.