Support Call 8-4-17
This Call Covers:
- Helping older children get calm and in control
- What to do when your child ignores you and other adults
- Rule of three manipulation
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Support Call 7-28-17
This Call Covers:
- Bonding with children who aren’t interested in the same things as you
- Dealing with and correcting previously unknown issues
- A special class about expectations in a relationships: “The Expectation Trap”
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Support Call 7-21-17
This Call covers:
- Changing course mid-rule of three
- Rule of three with Aspergers/Autistic children
- Stoping kids from playing with matches
- Positive and negative attention seeking
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Support Call 7-14-17
This Call Covers:
- Getting your family on board with the TSG program
- What to do when your young children go out of control
- How to maintain a healthy family environment when no one is in school
- When should my children get a smart phone?
- Youth Jobs and rules
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Support Call 6-23-17
This call Covers:
- How to get your spouse on board with couples meetings
- Jealous older children. Also, teaching children to love each other
- Charlotte Mason homeschool philosophy and TSG
- Is my child really calm
- Children not coming home on time.
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Can Teenagers Conquer the Culture of Disrespect Alone?
For years I’ve heard adults complain about how disrespectful teenagers are with a tone that suggests the teenagers should fix their problem. I found myself wondering if it was really totally the teenagers’ problem, and if it was possible for teenagers to fix the culture of disrespect all alone. After many years of helping families
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Support Call 5-05-17
This call covers:
- 3-year-old will not do any chores, even after earning them and calming down.
- Getting teens on board with the new TSG skills when they don’t want to.
- Feeling like a robot when doing the rule of three and how to make it not as mechanic.
- Helping children become “humble enough” to listen to parents during the rule of three.
- Inspiring change in adult children to help them stop power struggling.
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Support Call 4-28-17
This call covers:
- Asking questions and some scheduling for May.
- Applying TSG to young children, son with a “loose mouth”, and bedtime in a shared bedroom.
- Discussing methods for correcting bad language.
- How to do the Rule of Three with children that need to “do it over.”
- Contemplating putting oldest son in school for multiple reasons. Is it the best option?
- Synthetic consequences foreveryone? Parents need Self-Government too…
- Fixing obnoxious behavior and helping change child’s heart during the Rule of three.
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Support Call 4-21-17
This call covers:
- Setting phone limits for children with smartphones.
- Young children who hit and bite.
- Affirmation during a correction.
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10 Thoughts Children Have That Might Surprise Parents
“He’s not breathing really well, and they tell us he’ll likely die in a day or two…” a mother was explaining to a group of adults about her father-in-law, and her young son’s grandpa. Her son was sitting in an adjacent room with his good friend, but he wasn’t playing as his mother likely thought
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Support Call 3-31-17
This call covers:
- The difference between correction and judgment
- Pointers on the rule of three
- Correcting tired children
- Keeping emotions in control when body chemicals are wacky
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Support Call 3-10-17
This call covers:
- How to know if you’re “doing it right” or if it’s good enough.
- Young children boundary issues and correcting.
- Helping teach young son how to communicate without manipulation and aggression.
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Support Call 2-24-17
This call covers:
- How much quiet time to have for age 5.
- Can you get rid of the asking part of disagreeing appropriately?
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Support Call 2-17-17
This call covers:
- Son is lazy and likes to take the “path of least resistance.”
- Child refuses to eat what Mom makes for dinner and is very picky.
- How to handle misbehavior during school hours and keeping younger children quiet during that time.
- Right triangle and keeping diapers on children.
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Support Call 2-3-17
This call covers:
- Support call difficulties explained and discussed
- How to teach TSG to a child with language and learning barriers
- Setting up gaming and texting time limits for teenage children
- How to remind your spouse to stay calm when correcting the children
- Helping resolve disdain for and unwillingness to do chores
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Solutions for Today’s Teenage Sexual Problems
The other day I was attending a very heated legislative committee meeting in Utah where changes to the way state school teachers teach about sexual health were proposed. I recognized someof the legislators were not acknowledging the real solution to the problems facing teenagers. Debate and public comments on the proposed changes went on for
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Support Call 1-25-17
This call covers:
- Daughter won’t say okay to insructions and starts saying it when the correction starts
- Son is struggling in homeschool lessons
- Being aware of corrections during personal projects
- Judging and handling attitude problems
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Teaching Your Child to Listen to You, Every Time
Recently a woman who was asking for my advice said, “My 10-year-old son, Benjamin, will not do what I say. I know he hears me but he just ignores me when I talk to him. How can I get him to listen to me? I know I shouldn’t feel this way, but it’s like his
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Support Call 1-20-17
This call covers:
- Daughter gets emotional during her mentor meetings. Do we, as the parents, validate or correct those emotions?
- How to handle crying, whining, talking back, and separated parents.
- Son has rage episodes and will only calm down for mother. Is that making him dependant?
- How to use TSG with children that have ODD and anxiety
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Support Call 12-9-16
This call covers:
- What we’ve done this Christmas Season and some good Christmas stories and videos to read and watch
- How to correct a child that overreacts
- Small son won’t stay in the calm down spot. What’s the process for keeping him there?
- Noticing bad habits in the children that can be fixed
- Oldest child turning 18 and difficulties that come with that
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