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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Behaviors
Support Call 5-17-19
This Call Covers:
Single parents rasing children
Making a mission statement with a spouse who doesn’t agree
Giving chores to a child who is emotionally volitile
TSG with independent children
Summer activities in hot climates
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The Potential Nutrition Cure for “Difficult Children”
When I started learning self-government principles years ago, I was foster parenting some difficult children, most of whom were on medication and had severe anger issues and terrible eating habits.As I started teaching them self-government skills, many of the children no longer needed their medication. Sometimes the anger issues stopped immediately, but in other children the issues re-surfaced later. With these youth I looked at another aspect of self-government: their diet.
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Support Call 5-10-19
This Call Covers:
TSG and Depression
ADHD and following instructions
Helping children who refuse to get calm
Strong willed children
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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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Support Call 4-19-19
This Call Covers:
Helping children who are indecicive
Making traditions about holidays
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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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Shepherding the Children
Parents are meant to shepherd their children toward truth and safety, as well as in learning skills, in order to prepare them for the purposes of their lives. But not all shepherds are the same. Two sisters were given some sheep to care for, and a promise that the sheep would be of great value
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Support Call 4-5-19
This Call Covers:
Using stories to teach the four basic skills
Teaching boundaries
Navigating difficult social circles
Helping a child with Reactve Attachment Disorder
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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 3-21-19
This Call Covers:
Leaving children on their own
Talking about sex with children
Helping children with their chores.
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Support Call 3-15-19
This Call Covers:
Correcting “Calm Defiance”
Having meaningful conversations with teenagers
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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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Communication: More Than Talking
When my son was 12, he sang barbershop with his dad and grandpa.A few nights a week they had long rehearsals.One night, my son didn’t get to bed until midnight after a rehearsal.He slept in the next morning and realized he missed helping the Boy Scouts deliver flags for Pioneer Day.He said, “I guess I was just too tired to get up.”
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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 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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