Support Call 3-25-20
This Call Covers:
What is the proper balance of screen time during quarantine?
Helping calm pandemic concerns within the family
Children correcting each other
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Correcting
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 2-26-20
This Call Covers:
Helping children learn to adapt
Disagreeing appropriately with a spouse
Helping perfectionist children accept teaching
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Support Call 2-19-20
This Call Covers:
Leaving the children in the care of others
Toddlers and calmly following instructions
Family time at home when it’s not family night
Keeping the whole family involved in family meetings
Guidelines for calm down spots
Other mentoring for support members
TSG when sick
Mercy and the rule of three
Anxious children and freak outs
Helping teens who want to be immoral
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Support Call 1-29-20
This Call Covers:
Nicholeen talks about mental health
Helping you children get good friends
Setting boundaries with friends
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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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Support Call 1-15-20
This Call Covers:
How to help my family understand my vision
Micromanaging and touchy children
Masturbation in teenagers
Helping a spouse change their attitude
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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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A Vow to be Positive
Some might think that optimistic people are fake or somehow disconnected from reality, but I know for a fact that positivity is one of our choices no matter what circumstances are before us. Russell Nelsontaught that our “joy has little to do with the circumstances of our lives, but everything to do with the focus
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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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Support Call 11-20-19
This Call Covers:
Helping teens who complain a lot
Young children who are silly
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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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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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