Support Call 3-18-20
This Call Covers:
Self government in a time of crisis
Siblings being silly
Calm down spot advice
Helping parents learn about your self government journey
Autism and being corrected by others
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How to Thrive When You’re Trapped Inside
Trapped! That’s what many people feel like they are right now. Many children are complaining of being bored, or worse, having way too much screen time. Stress is infiltrating more homes globally by the day because businesses are closing their doors, people are losing their jobs, bills are still coming due, social distancing is making
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Support Call 3-4-20
This Call Covers:
Helping young children who are afraid at night
Children who call people names
Helping children when they are being watched by someone else pt. 2
Small children who habitually power struggle
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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 2-12-2020
This Call Covers:
Bedtime extra chores
Cell phones and young children
Loving correction of spouses
Hard behaviors and children running from home
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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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Support Call 1-22-20
This Call Covers:
Preventing yourself from micromanaging
Helping your introvert children “fit in”
Children going out of control
Using the 4 basic skills with other adults
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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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How To Create Magical Family Memories
As I held my 15-year-old son’s hand and watched the magic of Christmas unfold around me with lights and nativity displays at the city center, I felt that date with my son was a parent’s dream come true. Who doesn’t dream of the perfect parent/child memory? We all want them, but could our desire for
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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 12-4-19
This Call Covers:
Helping young children learn language boundaries
Impulse control and consequences
Children and families with strong emotions
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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 11-5-19
This Call Covers:
TSG during the holidays and family functions
Eye contact durring corrections
Improving connections and tone with children
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“Choose Not to Be Harmed”
One day my father told me something so profound that it literally changed my social life and my personal empowerment forever. After I finished telling him about how another child at school had been mean to me, he said, “Nicholeen, sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.” I’m guessing
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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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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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