Children’s Books Bundle
Bundle and save on all 4 of the Children’s Books!
These books have been helping children learn in a fun way for years!
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Simple Solutions for Lack of Motivation Problems
A mother recently asked me how to help her daughter feel motivated to do anything besides sit around the house. She isn’t alone. With the new quarantine lifestyle, many families are thriving with the increase of family time, personal time, and relationship-building. But, even the most involved parents can still find that their child might
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The Coronavirus Cure For Your Family
Could it be that Coronavirus could actually cure your family? Now families have to be together all the time. Some families think this sounds awful. If a family is thinking this, then they are in need of lots of family time, not the contrary. In an effort to turn this pandemic into a blessing for
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Choosing Calmness Amidst All the Stress
Why do we cater to our stresses and forget to choose calmness? After all, calmness is the only state where we truly feel safe and empowered. Stress, anger, and frustration never lead to true empowerment or peace, only emotional bondage. In 1998, when I was the young mother of a small baby and a toddler,and
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Support Call 2-26-20
This Call Covers:
Helping children learn to adapt
Disagreeing appropriately with a spouse
Helping perfectionist children accept teaching
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Carving Out More Family Quality Time in a Fast-Paced World
Creating quality, loving family relationships requires discerning between what actions are really quality and what actions are nothing more than conformity to social norms. Creating these quality relationships doesn’t require elaborate planning, just time. Strong family relationships are built upon many components, such as good communication, honesty, trust, love, forgiveness, bonding, listening, shared vision, and
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10 Lessons for Listening With Love
Much emotional agony is avoided and more relationship healing is possible when a person learns to listen with love. There were two similar conversations that had very different results. The first conversation was between a mother and her son. The son told his mother about a problem he was having with a friend, but she
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Making Any Holiday the Perfect Holiday
During this time of year when there are lists of things to do and places to go, don’t forget this one simple truth: people are more important than things. People are worth more of our focus than lists. We may think that the lists of things make the holiday perfect for the people, but that
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Support Call 12-18-19
This Call Covers:
How to tell if excuses are legitimate
Setting up appropriate routines and chores for young children
Helping children stay in instructional control pt. 2
Calming down very young children
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Support Call 12-11-19
This Call Covers:
Spouses who are onboard with TSG, but the Implementation Course is too long
Consistency struggles as a parent
Getting a family adjusted to a new TSG system
Helping an emotionally manipulative child
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Family Traditions that Bind or Break or Unity for Christmas
Family traditions instill personal and family identity and bind families together throughout their many phases of growth and change. After children and grandchildren are grown and gone off to live their adult lives, the traditions remain as reminders of the sweetness of home and family, what is most important in life, and who they really
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Support Call 11-20-19
This Call Covers:
Helping teens who complain a lot
Young children who are silly
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1 Easy Way to Wrap Your Holiday Gatherings In Love
“Do you see those sweet sisters over there? They inspire me. They couldn’t be more different, but they also couldn’t be more full of love toward each other than they are,” a friend of mine pointed out to me one day about two ladies who were her good friends. She went on to explain, “One
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Support Call 10-30-19
This Call Covers:
Discussing the seperation between emotion and logic in parenting
Parents disagreeing appropriately with each other
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Support Call 10-23-19
This Call Covers:
Helping small children deal with separation anxiety
Passive-Agressive out of control children
Learning to love children who won’t show love back
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Who Drives You Crazy?
“But what if they just keep talking back and are driving me crazy,” a mother asked me while I was instructing a group of parents on how to teach their children to accept “no” answers. The mother of three told the group she knew she needed help becausesometimes she feels so crazy, or out of
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Can I Use TSG with Someone Else’s Child? – Part 2
After responding to the woman who teaches Primary at church with my initial, general tips on how to use self-government principles in the classroom she wrote me back the following:
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Support Call 10-2-19
This Call Covers:
Correcting children who won’t claim responsibility
Helping a child who has been out of control for weeks
Children who complain a lot
When to pressure children
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Can I Use TSG with Someone Else’s Child? – Part 1
Back in 2008 I received a letter from a woman that teaches a class every Sunday at church. She was having difficulty managing the behavior of the children in her class (or rather, the children were having difficulty managing their own behavior!). She wrote…
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Support Call 9-18-19
This Call Covers:
In detail explanation of he rule of three
Children who say really alarming things
Helping children to adjust to a divorce
Young children and stress
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