Support Call 5-16-18
This Call Covers:
- creating a discussion-based home environment
- teaching gratitude
- correcting lying/negative attention seeking
- figuring out when to use the rule of three
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Support Call 5-4-18
This Call Covers:
- Helping children become less critical of others
- Stopping children from becoming voilent
- Keeping children on task who struggle with focusing
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Support Call 4-27-18
This Call Covers:
- Dealing with other adults who want to correct your children
- Helping children overcome perfectionism
- Stopping manipulation on time out
- Being assertive as parents
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Support Call 3-30-18
This Call Covers:
- Helping a young child with a computer addiciton
- Rebuilding a relationship with a rebellious teen
- How to truly master the TSG skills
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Support Call 3-13-18
This Call Covers:
- Helping younger children understand the TSG skills
- Dealing with children after daycare
- Helping a child to reconnect with the family
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Thanks to Pre-Teaching, Melanie Sees the Future
Years ago I was participating in a sewing activity at my church. Many women had gathered at the church with their sewing machines. At this activity, there was a four-year-old girl that kept touching the knobs on the sewing machines. Her mother tried to keep her in control and punished her by putting her into time-out when she touched the machines. She didn’t stop trying to touch the machines —even though this girl was punished each time .
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Always Stay Consistent with Consequences Earned
“Yesterday my 8 year old was grumpy when asked to do something, so he earned a negative consequence. I asked him to choose a job from the job jar.I explained that the job would help him change his heart.He then got very cheerful and said he was sorry for being grumpy… and wanted to be allowed to not do the job because he had changed (after all, he reasoned, the attitude was the reason for the extra job).
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Support Call 12-8-17
This Call Covers:
- Helping young children accept no answers
- How to help an extremely independent child stay in instructional control
- Dealing with very obstinate children
- Creating an inspring home atmosphere for your children
- What to do when one sibling acts in open contempt towards another
- Helping young children genuinely calm down
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“Every time you’re silly, somebody always gets hurt.”
I was standing at the kitchen sink washing dishes, when all of the sudden the happy children noises from the basement changed into cries and yells. I remember distinctly hearing a sad noise or yell from each of my four children. Now, doing the dishes seemed fun compared with sorting out what happened in the basement. I dried my hands and took a deep breath. I wanted to make sure I was calmso that the obviously stressful situation wouldn’t control my emotions. A clear head and calm soul can change hearts and teach minds.
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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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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 4-29-16
This call covers:
- Helping husband with his tone.
- Son is having trouble keeping his thoughts away from other men.
- Follow-up with age 5 son who hits, bites, and kicks.
- Husband not on board and son is addicted to electronics and is physical.
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Support Call 4-08-16
This call covers:
- The sweetness of a long marriage and my husband.
- 12-year-old son has been fantasizing about girls and kissing and more. He tells his parents, but they’re not sure what to do exactly.
- Age nine daughter has recently been homeschooled. She is defiant and manipulative. She causes lots of contention. What to do.
- Grandchildren are really picky eaters. How to help them broaden their horizon.
- Teenaged son is very proud and power struggles all the time. Will hit and bully. How to help him.
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Support Call 2-12-16
This call covers:
- How to correct someone else’s child when in a group.
- Comparing points of certain psychology to TSG: what’s right and what’s a little off.
- Helping my son become more attentive and less distracted.
- Catching my 15-year-old daughter with junk food in her room and stealing money to buy junk food. It’s all she’ll eat.
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Support Call 7-10-15
This call covers:
- How to use TSG with children with high-functioning Aspergers
- How to stay calm when your children don’t come when you call.
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Conference Call 4-8-11
After her brother’s wedding Nicholeen shares a nugget of wisdom“Receiving your Spouse”. She discusses the importance of receiving and improving your relationship with your spouse, gives an assessment, and discusses the3 Types of Communication.
Questions:
- My husband thinks I am too much of a softy and that kids need more aggressive measures than just talking about it. So do I go his way or make him come my way?
- My children are 10, 12, and14 year olds but they act like 3 year olds. The feeling in the house is total contention there’s been fighting, squabbling, teasing, sibling rivalry, they are being destructive.My goal to stay calm. What do I do?
- Talking helps me understand my thoughts.What do I do when there is something I need to talk concerning my spouse? I know you mentioned that we shouldn’t talk behind our spouses back?
- We are trying to implement things in your book. I have older kids who don’t care for the changes. My husband says we need to get back to core and back to the relationships with them. How do you suggest we start implementing Self-Government?
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Do You See What I See?
Over the last year, my niece has gone through a change. The once happy, helpful girl changed into a whiny, depressed, girl that didn’t look at life the same. One day I got left home with the all the children whilethe adultswent shopping. While I was home with the children I started giving instructions for everyone to clean things up around the house. My niece started arguing with me, then she started whining, then she started complaining about everything in her life and told me that I just didn’t understand her. This is how I handled it…
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Most Important For Church Classes
“For clarification, when I describe a child’s inappropriate behavior, do I stop there?
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Why Not?
I instructed my daughter to sweep the floor. She said, “OK Mom, but I don’t know how.”
This surprised me. She had seen me sweep the floor so many times, that I forgot she might not even know how to accomplish the task.So, I told her exactly how to do it. It’s needs to be the same when telling your child what to say.