Support Call 11-11-16
This call covers:
- Becoming a better parent by not checking out and staying away from electronics more
- Using the Rule of Three with a raging 7-year-old
- Confusion on the calm down spot
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Consequences
Support Call 11-4-16
This call covers:
- Staying calm when your toddler is harmful to your newborn.
- Managing outbursts at the dinner table from your teenager.
- Helping your child stop correcting their siblings.
- Maintaining the Rule of Three without punishing the rest of the family.
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Support Call 10-28-16
This call covers:
- Daughter thinks her parents have favorite children and shows it
- Argumentative and “know-it-all” child
- How to REALLY pray
- Confusion on an answer in a SODAS
- Starting homeschool
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Support Call 9-02-16
This call covers:
- Twin 6-year-old boys who struggle with lying, cheating, and stealing.
- New to the program and has a 10-year-old son who rages and gets angry.
- Aged 2 son slaps, pinches, and rips. He’s a little bully.
- Adopted daughter won’t open up about anything and phone is a constanct companion.
- Entitlement confusion.
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Recipe for How to Raise an Unspoiled Child
“Porter, you’re being whiny and you need to stop it,” said Spencer, my husband, in exasperation one evening. He had just treated the children to a day of fun times and snacks, and even purchased souvenir T-shirts for them. Spencer had had enough. The funny thing was that Porter’s whiny moment was the first occurrence
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Goals And Commitments: Consequences For Both
Goals and commitments: what is the difference between these two? And shouldn’t there be synthetic consequences for goals as well as commitments? Listen to this audio to learn more!
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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 7-08-16
This call covers:
- Religious liberties
- Thumb sucking, biting nails, and wetting pants
- If it’s okay for a child to lie in certain circumstances
- Distraction with chores
- Rivalry between brothers
- Spitting when getting a no answer
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Support Call 7-01-16
This call covers:
- My husband is okay with me introducing the TSG skills into the family, but he’s not so keen on actually changing the tone and environment of our home. How can I help him get on board?
- Our four-year-old is bright and enthusiastic, but has a hitting problem with the family and sometimes even with guests. What do I do?
- I divorced and remarried into a family that now totals almost 17 children. They’re great for the most part, but some of the teens have terrible attitude problems. How do I teach one of them humility?
- Our aged 11 daughter becomes extremely rebellious whenever we try to enforce rules. How do we fix that?
- I get scared of correcting some behaviors. How do I help myself not be afraid?
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Support Call 6-17-16
This call covers:
- Summer tip! Helping family relationships stay strong with friends in the picture more.
- My 8-year-old daughter has a friend who will invite her to play, then leave her and go play with other people without warning. Ideas?
- 13-year-old son will NOT talk about the topic of changing schools. He immediately gets angry and refuses to discuss it. What do I do?
- (This call had some technical difficulties on the second question. We apologize. Please read the notes for more on it.)
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4 Ways to Help Children Enjoy Chores and Become Good Workers
“There is no substitute for hard work.” (Thomas Edison) Years ago, when I was planning a Teaching Self-Government trip to China, a good friend of mine said, “Nicholeen, what are you going to tell parents in China who don’t understand why their child should earn an extra chore? Most parents don’t have their children do
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Helping Children With Asperger’s To Stay Focused
High-functioning Autism/Asperger’s can cause children to have a hard time focusing on the task at hand. Simple tasks often becomehour-long undertakings,ending up with parent andchild frustrated and angry.
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Humanity And Changing Hearts
Humanity is such an interestingthing. Do we really understand it? Do we really know what it is? How do we define “being human?” In order to be human, we must understand nature; what God created. Once we understand that, we can begin to understandhuman nature.
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Support Call 5-20-16
This call covers:
- Recap of the World Congress of Families
- Age 5 son taks and asks questions constantly. How do I help him rein it in?
- Getting age 2 to respond to TSG better
- How to handle out of control behavior at church
- Definition of “principled”
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Support Call 5-06-16
This call covers:
- How to help15-year-old daughter care about being with her younger siblings and not care so much about friends and electronics.
- How family work relates to chores and should children have chores?
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Even Adults Have To Use The Four Basics…
We might think that teaching the Four Basic skills is mainly for the children. They’re the ones who need them the most, right? Well, maybe adults need them just as much as the children do.
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Support Call 4-15-16
This call covers:
- Camping fun!
- Bringing about an attitude adjustment about “no” answers with age 9 (almost 10)
- Struggles with getting son 6th grader to do homework. Possible anxiety or ADD issues.
- Energetic 10-month-old that deliberately does things he knows he shouldn’t and has started biting and hitting.
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Support Call 4-01-16
This call covers:
- Happy April Fool’s Day!
- Balancing time between two young children and a fussy new baby.
- Inspiring 15-year-old son to want to self-govern. Very strong-willed.
- Age 4 daughter likes to change her clothes multiple times a day. It’s getting out of hand.
- Connecting with older children through TSG.
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The Fast Track to Parenting Success!
Faster isn’t always better. In a world of convenience and lack of time, great efforts have been made to save time and increase efficiency for us all. Innovators have created devices and processes that increase our quality of life and give us more time for the important things. But, faster isn’t better when people are
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