This call covers: Dad and children are constantly teasing each other and husband can’t take criticism. It’s creating lots of problems. Husband and 15-year-old son are addicted to media, mostly the son. Video games have made him a different child. When it’s okay and not okay to compare with your children.

Posted by Nicholeen Peck on February 2, 2016

This Call Covers: What to do when a friend’s family completely disrespects you in your own home. Helping out a stubborn child Dealing with laundry problems A computer addiction in a child

Posted by Nicholeen Peck on January 28, 2018

Friday’s call was full of so many good questions! Here they are: If someone walks away during the Rule of Three, do they immediately earn a total loss of all priviledges? My son has ADHD and I have a light case of ADD. He doesn’t know he has it yet, but I’m hesitant to tell him. He gets angry easily and doesn’t like the Rule of Three. Is it okay to give him time to calm down before starting the Rule of Three? What is it with 11-year-olds? They seem to be the focus of a lot of the questions. I have an 11-year-old and I need to know what to do besides accept hard knocks. What would would you suggest? I want to have a Mentor Session with my ADHD son, but my husband thinks it wouldn’t go well. How would I run the Mentor Session and should I …

Posted by Nicholeen Peck on January 28, 2014

Whole call: CC Notes 1-19-2021 https://s3.amazonaws.com/1-SupportCalls/2021/01January/tsg-sc-1-20-21-wholeedited.mp3 Question: Homeschool question. Charlotte Mason Vs. TJEd. Answer: On Support Call 1-13-2020 Question: I took my daughter who is 15 now out of school last year. The end of her 9th grade year. 8th grade she appeared to be doing well getting all A’s and honors classes, honor role. She said inside she felt horrible and lonely. Social anxiety is debilitating for her. She felt like she didn’t know any of the answers when called on. Classes presentations cause too much stress. She was burnt out stressing about assignments being good enough or turned in on time. She passed out in the 7th grade from stress and has chronic stomach pain from anxiety. She says school got too hard in 9th grade. We tried online school and she had a hard time focusing and watching the online classes for long periods of time and …

Posted by Nicholeen Peck on January 22, 2021

This Call Covers:How to help my family understand my visionMicromanaging and touchy childrenMasturbation in teenagersHelping a spouse change their attitude

Posted by Nicholeen Peck on January 17, 2020

Whole call:   CC Notes 1-13-2021 https://s3.amazonaws.com/1-SupportCalls/2021/01January/tsg-sc-1-13-21WHOLE+EDITED.mp3 Question: We are working on being calm. Each of my kids has his/her own space where they created tools that can help them calm down. We made a plan for each of them to go there when he/she needs to calm down. Several of my kids are having a hard time disengaging when they are upset. They can’t accept that instruction to go to their calm spot while they are upset. So, I have started going to a quiet spot. This has really helped me to be proactive and not get upset or re-engage. But, when I did this, one time my daughter tried to restrain me from leaving (pulled at my arm, held my feet.) Several times my son has hit walls and doors and made messes throughout the house that take hours to clean up. (He is 12 years old and …

Posted by Nicholeen Peck on January 16, 2021

This call covers: Family history project planning Son has no privileges and we’re just starting the program. How does the rule of three work with that? Having physical limitations that have become a hinderance instead of being helpful Teaching children empathy Setting boundaries for learning responsibilities Talking about and setting boundaries for dating

Posted by Nicholeen Peck on January 20, 2017

Yesterday’s call was full of insight! I think the questions that were asked opened everyone’s understanding just a little bit more. These are the questions we had: I have a 11-year-old son who makes his sister the enemy. We have tried many things. What more can we do? My daughter is almost 16 and she is not obeying our family rules when it comes to electronics. She is sneaking them around, she is hiding them from me, and her friends are sending her devices. It feels like she is so desperate to reach out to her friends that she’s lying and sneaking, when all she needs to do is be honest and upfront. What would you recommend? We had an issue where Grandpa went against my wishes. He came to take my daughter to babysit her and I told him “No candy.” On the way back to his home, he …

Posted by Nicholeen Peck on January 11, 2014

This call covers: Struggling with depression and anxiety and how to overcome it. Dealing with a daughter that has frequent tantrums and is mentally, emotionally, and socially younger than she really is.

Posted by Nicholeen Peck on January 13, 2017

The other day I was attending a very heated legislative committee meeting in Utah where changes to the way state school teachers teach about sexual health were proposed. I recognized someof the legislators were not acknowledging the real solution to the problems facing teenagers. Debate and public comments on the proposed changes went on for hours. Lawmakers didn’t like the bill and ended up voting it down. However, right before the bill was officially refused some legislators expressed concern about some of the sexual problems they see pertaining to young people nowadays. Even though it wasn’t the solution, they understood why the bill was proposed. One legislator said that he didn’t know the solution to all the problems he was seeing in young people, but he would really like someone to figure it out. He also said that since times have changed, we need to make some changes, but he …

Posted by Monica Pond on February 10, 2017

Roles. They define our rights, obligations, responsibilities, beliefs, and even who we are. How well do we each understand our respective roles? How do we teach our children about proper roles? How would the problems children and parents face change if they better understood roles? Aren’t parents whether aggressive, passive or assertive always defining roles anyway? How do roles effect business relationships? Why do we see the roles in today’s world wrapped around so much confusion and debate when it’s impossible to escape roles? This book (published in 2016) makes roles easier to understand, and it shows how to strengthen roles and empower ourselves and those we live and work with to reach our full potentials.

Posted by Richard Genck on April 28, 2020

I’ve been writing about the best practices in raising children since 2006. During this time, I’ve covered a variety of subjects, but never did I think I would end up writing about a topic like this. No matter where you live or how you choose to educate your children, this database scandal could likely affect your family. Behind the safety net of yellow signs, for the past 35 years schools and libraries have been categorized by the United States as “safe places” for children. Sadly, the majority of these “safe places” are exploiting children by spoon feeding them pornographic images, videos, and illicit sexual articles through databases that have been marketed to schools and libraries as “safe and secure.” This seedy material is promoting risky sexual behaviors — including prostitution recruitment services. However, we can’t fully fault the “safe places.” None of the school or library administrators I’ve spoken to …

Posted by Monica Pond on October 5, 2018