Support Call 8-10-18
This Call Covers:
- Children peeing on their floor
- Having love for your children while correcting them.
- fixing irritable behavior
- Helping adult children accept role
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Adult Children
Support Call 8-3-18
This Call Covers:
- Attention Seeking in adult children
- Helping ADHD kids be calm
- Correcting children who make rude comments
- TSG and multiple mental disorders in children
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Support Call 6-15-18
This Call Covers:
- Helping children be gentle with other children
- TSG for adult children
- Proper application of the rule of three
- Helping children accept their own no answers
- Helping children with a sugar addiction
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Support Call 10-27-17
This Call Covers:
- Staying calm when the children are fighting.
- Dealing with teenager attitude problems
- Bedtime with children sharing a room
- Disabilities and bad behavior.
- Having a personal calm down plan
- Helping children with laundry
- Overcoming shyness
- Children who are violent
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Support Call 5-05-17
This call covers:
- 3-year-old will not do any chores, even after earning them and calming down.
- Getting teens on board with the new TSG skills when they don’t want to.
- Feeling like a robot when doing the rule of three and how to make it not as mechanic.
- Helping children become “humble enough” to listen to parents during the rule of three.
- Inspiring change in adult children to help them stop power struggling.
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Support Call 3-03-17
This call covers:
- Answers to questions and announcements.
- Specifics on doing corrections in the car.
- Staying calm and facing power struggles from your children.
- The difference between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation.
- Feeling more understood when you disagree appropriately.
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Support Call 12-9-16
This call covers:
- What we’ve done this Christmas Season and some good Christmas stories and videos to read and watch
- How to correct a child that overreacts
- Small son won’t stay in the calm down spot. What’s the process for keeping him there?
- Noticing bad habits in the children that can be fixed
- Oldest child turning 18 and difficulties that come with that
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Support Call 8-18-16
This call covers:
- Thoughts on entitlement
- Son only starts to obey when he is taken to the calm down spot.
- How to implement TSG with multiple adult children living at home.
- Getting younger children to do their chores when they don’t want to.
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Support Call 7-29-16
This call covers:
- Having trouble teaching my children and doing SODAS
- My son hates anything to do with hygiene. Help!
- My daughter will follow an instruction, but pouts and whines while she does. What do I do there?
- We have an adult child in the home who is making decisions that aren’t within our family standard. What do we do there?
- New Sunday school teacher for age 7 and they haveenergy.How do I help them not be distracted by one person?
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Support Call 5-13-16
This call covers:
- Paije’s 18th birthday! Children are growing up!
- World Congress of Families in Republic of Georgia
- Trusting children to be good
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Support Call 3-9-16
This call covers:
- Priorities in group problem solving
- Saving our daughter’s identities
- Mother interfereing with adult sister’s life. Should I correct her?
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Becoming A Joyful Adult Part 5
So far, we have learned four of the five characteristics of “Becoming A Joyful Adult.” Now we get to learn about the fifth, being: Character. It is who we are. Character is one of my favorite words described in Webster’s 1828 Dictionary. It says character is: “…the peculiar qualities, impressed by nature or habit on
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Becoming A Joyful Adult Part 4
This is the fourth part of the “Becoming Joyful Adults” series. The topic of this part is: Relationships. There are many reasons why relationships are so important to be joyful. Also, in this clip, we learn of three things that will better your relationships. Relationships are what keep the family together and staying strong. They
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Becoming A Joyful Adult Part 3
This week’s Gem is the continuation of the “Becoming A Joyful Adult” series. Part three is about another amazing charactaristic: Purpose. We have to have purpose in order to have any amount of happiness. Have you ever found yourself at home with nothing to do? You start to feel grumpy. Purpose gives us something to
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Becoming A Joyful Adult Part 2
In this second part of Becoming Joyful Adults, we learn about the second characteristic that we need to be, indeed, a joyful adult and how to help our children be joyful as well.
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Becoming A Joyful Adult
Learn about the first of 5 characteristics you need to raise and become joyful adults!
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Conference Call 4-15-11
Nicholeen shares some stories about the importance of having a vision for you and your children. She is often contacted by individuals who have see in the BBC show. She tells about a girl who is lost and not sure what to do with her life and is considering apprenticing as a piercing person.
- What if your child (or teenager) doesn’t care about the family vision or says it is stupid? That’s what seems to be happening with one of our kids.Nicholeen shares 5 ideas about vision.
- I have a question about the content of vision. Would it be bad to make our family being in the rodeo as part of our vision?Or do I just change the vision if my children’s interests change.
- 7 year old not calm after rule of 3 and needs to be taken out of the room. I can’t take him due to back it sends me into panic mode. He doesn’t like to be taken there. But he is attention seeking with the tantrum. 5 second rule. Power struggle mode. Soft hold. Exception to rule. Be intuitive. Special moment, counseling session. I noticed good. I noticed every so often you arent happy. I decided in order to help you be happy to do a soft hold. You are in bondage to your emotions and I am going to free you.
- Help! I need advice as soon as possible. We just found out that our 17 year old has been drinking he was twice the legal limit and has been smoking 4 cigerettes per day. He needs to go to detox and a smoking cessation program. What do we do?
- My 17 year old daughter makes mountains out of mole holes in regards to computer time and her social life. She will get really upset. She’s is a really good girl and the extreme is that she recently started cutting herself. Part of it is my fault since we really don’t have a structure in place for.
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Conference Call 4-8-11
After her brother’s wedding Nicholeen shares a nugget of wisdom“Receiving your Spouse”. She discusses the importance of receiving and improving your relationship with your spouse, gives an assessment, and discusses the3 Types of Communication.
Questions:
- My husband thinks I am too much of a softy and that kids need more aggressive measures than just talking about it. So do I go his way or make him come my way?
- My children are 10, 12, and14 year olds but they act like 3 year olds. The feeling in the house is total contention there’s been fighting, squabbling, teasing, sibling rivalry, they are being destructive.My goal to stay calm. What do I do?
- Talking helps me understand my thoughts.What do I do when there is something I need to talk concerning my spouse? I know you mentioned that we shouldn’t talk behind our spouses back?
- We are trying to implement things in your book. I have older kids who don’t care for the changes. My husband says we need to get back to core and back to the relationships with them. How do you suggest we start implementing Self-Government?
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Parenting Adult Children ~Narcissism Personality Disorder
Nicholeen,
Do you have any hope (techniques we can use) forNarcissistto change? I am dealing with a 50 year old son who we have diagnosed (finally) and he is wearing us out emotionally and financially.
Thank you so much,
When I think about this situation I can’t help but ponder on the word “control.”He wants control of his life and is going about it all wrong…………you want to have more control, or influence, over him and he is not a child anymore, despite how he is acting, so you can’t have it by taking it. There is a principle I believe in…………..No one is able to really control anyone but herself.
However, this doesn’t mean that you can’t still have influence on your son. It just means that it is much more
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