This call covers:
* Initial Response To Negative Behavior
* ODD & Therapy
* Audiobook Recommendations
* Jealousy
* Dealing With Negative Emotions In A Healthy Way
* Teens Bossing Parents
* Feeling Hopeless
* Kids Annoying Each Other On Purpose
* ODD in Adults
There are times when I do things I wouldn’t normally do just because I wouldn’t normally do it. It’s a kind of self-check to make sure that I’m still open-minded and hopeful, instead of resting in a bias. Allow me to give you some context into my life so that you can understand why it …
This call covers:
Electronics Addiction
Solo Mum – And 15 Wants To Give Commands To Siblings
Practicing Calm Down
24 Hour Loss of Privilege and Major Maintenance
Does Co-Sleeping With Children Discourage Self-Government
2 And a Half Year Old Boy Does Not Accept a “No” Answer
Job/Phone/and Out of Control
Speaking Over Me During Pre-Teaching
Bedtime Battle
Implementing TSG with older children
Emotional Bondage Habit After Loss of Privileges
Dinner Time With Seven Year Old Son
“I Want Things To Be Fun and Funny!”
Navigating Values With a “Culture War” between parents
Young son is physically abusive and won’t take responsibility
Anger during role playing session
Navigating work time with young children
by Nicholeen Peck “It’s harder for children nowadays with all of the technology and temptations and bad examples”, a mother said to me at a recent conference where I was speaking. We talked for a moment about the differences between her childhood and the childhood of her children. She was concerned. She felt lost and …
Nearly every day parents ask me how to help their “wayward young adult” or how to heal the heart of their “disconnected teen.” Children displaying unnatural affection by disconnecting from loving parents is an epidemic in our modern society. Normal human development involves increasingly seeking for autonomy as a person launches into adulthood. However, turning …
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Some people seem to be naturally patient, while others seem to struggle with increasing patience because of their strong/hard natures or how they were nurtured. However, when patience is more understood, we all might find that we’re taking more steps toward patience than we think we are. And, if we keep taking those steps, then …
As part of learning cause and effect and growing into healthy adulthood, most children occasionally test boundaries by willfully choosing disobedience or even rebelling against parents. While taking risks and being a little bit rebellious here and there are usually healthy signs of normal development toward adulthood, obedience is required for wisdom and learning, too. …
Our youth are stuck in a social vortex that’s forever spinning ideas past them but never leading them to truth. Every person has an inborn desire to know why they are here, where they are going, and what life’s all about. Scientists and socialists, as well as academics and activists, all attempt to promote purpose …
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Sadly, teaching strategies for proper social and emotional health are often unorganized and conflicting. Parents are left feeling like they need to choose between teaching children to have self-control and teaching children to be emotionally heard. These choices seem like opposites to most people. But, to a person who has true emotional intelligence, both of …
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Authentic grandparents who actively engage with their children and grandchildren establish a foundation of security and hope for the younger generations that can’t be found elsewhere. Grandpa had a boat and regularly took me and the rest of his large family out for rides and on water-skiing trips. These were fun memories, but one boating …
An exasperated woman, whose marriage was falling apart, said to me, “Nicholeen, my husband is obsessed by principles. He keeps telling me that I don’t understand principles and that I’m not living by principles. How do you define principles?” This woman’s husband lived according to his own made-up rules, such as hiding things from …
What a difference our agency makes in who we choose to follow! When my daughter, Paije, was in a homeschool co-op class at age 14, after a discussion about what makes a good leader, the class was asked how they would know who to vote for when they were adults. My daughter shot up …
This Call Covers:
Help for parents who are feeling overwhelmed
Starting TSG with “hard” teenagers
Punishment vs. Correction for children with disabilities
Following the TSG scripts
Extra chores for children who won’t do them
Helping older children with friend problems and proper boundaries
This Call Covers:
Teenagers and the rule of three
Homeschooling and schedules
Correcting other people’s children when in authority
Bringing teens to TSG conferences
This Call Covers:
Losing Privileges during quarantine
Computer privileges and teenagers
Whining
Children Stealing
Bonding with adult children
This call covers:
Appropriate dinner conversation
Boundaries and discussing roles with neighbors
Older teens who don’t want to follow family rules
Bossy children
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Sick, horrified, disgusted, and worried are just some of the words that describe how I felt when an innocent search through the student portal of the Utah Online Library database pulled up graphic porn in a resource that was supposed to be for children about daddies. The resource said that daddies were adult men who …
This Call Covers:
Extra chore variety at home
Doing extra chores during the summer
Corrections while someone is on 24hr loss of privileges
Staying calm while working with foster children/social workers
Controlling personal trigger points
This Call Covers:
Calm down time manipulation
Out of control teenagers
Four basic skills refresher
How to stop getting overwhelmed with TSG
Calm down time manipulation
Out of control teenagers
Four basic skills refresher
How to not get overwhelmed with TSG
Avoiding lecturing