Support Call 4-11-19
This Call Covers:
Some thoughts on marraige
Children and therapy animals
Helping small children with homeschooling
Betime intructions
ADHD and diets
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Dropping the subject
Support Call 3-7-19
This Call Covers:
Helping children overcome video game addiction
Stopping negativity in children
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Healthy Independence vs. Rebellion
Many parents of teen- or pre-teen-aged youth are confused about whether teenage rebellion is an attitude problem or whether the child is displaying healthy independence. When attitude problems seem like rebellion, parents wonder if rebellion is natural or simply a modern social construct that societies now think is developmentally normal. Rebellion is as old as
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Support Call 2-22-19
This Call Covers:
Teaching children with developmental challenges
Raising children up to the Lord
Encouraging proper mental development during puberty
Helping husbands stay on board with TSG
Stopping negative attention seeking.
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Support Call 2-1-19
This Call Covers:
Helping children calm down quickly
Correcting out of instructional control behavior
Stopping blaming
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How to Help Kids Enjoy Doing Work!
It’s all too common in many modern households to hear sighs, grumbling, complaining and whining from children when parents give reminders of daily work responsibilities, or when additional work assignments are given to children. But, before we think this is the way children have always felt about doing work or that everyone should feel work
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Grace is Behind the Thanks: Just Ask Mom
This Thanksgiving Day is dedicated to feeling and expressing gratitude for our blessings. Are you grateful for who you are and the roles you have? Two Mothers Two mothers, Tina and Katy, are watching the ball game of their oldest sons. Their boys play for the same team. Each mother has other children busily running
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Support Call 11-9-18
This Call Covers:
- Helping someone stop lying compulsively
- Out of control behaviorwith a toddler
- Children refusing to eat
- Does the rule of three become ineffective?
- Dealing with peers at school
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2/3 of the Power Behind a Change of Heart
“Calmness is the rarest quality in human life. It is the poise of a great nature, in harmony with itself and its ideals. It is the moral atmosphere of a life self-centred, self-reliant, and self- controlled. Calmness is singleness of purpose, absolute confidence, and conscious power — ready to be focused in an instant to
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Surviving Mom’s Worst Day Ever!
When the famed prime minister of England, William Pitt, was asked what made him a great prime minister, he didn’t say his hard work ethic, late night hours, or perseverance. He said, “Patience.” There are many attributes that are useful to parents as they’re raising their children during this often busy world full of attitude
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Support Call 8-31-18
This Call Covers:
- Kids Faking illnesses
- Correcting children on the Autism spectrum
- Helping children feel comfortable playing
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Support Call 8-10-18
This Call Covers:
- Children peeing on their floor
- Having love for your children while correcting them.
- fixing irritable behavior
- Helping adult children accept role
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Support Call 8-3-18
This Call Covers:
- Attention Seeking in adult children
- Helping ADHD kids be calm
- Correcting children who make rude comments
- TSG and multiple mental disorders in children
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What Children Think of Negative Consequences
I recently asked a group of 10-year-old children what kinds of negative consequences their families have. “At our house, we sweep the floor and clean,” said one boy. “Mom gets mad and goes into a bad mood,” said another boy. “Mom used to send us to time out, but we don’t do that anymore,” said
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Support Call 7-13-18
This Call Covers:
- Correcting not dropping the subject
- Bedtime emotional manipulation
- Calming down for the rule of three
- Disagreeing appropriately
- Staying calm during the rule of three
- Calming a child down during a correction
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Traveling Trends Meet Parenting Problems
Family travel looks different these days than it used to. Today’s parents were raised in a slower time. Most families planned one or two trips a year, which were usually taken during school holidays, and in our case, in the family travel trailer. While there are still families that really don’t like to leave home
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Stopping Conflicts Before They Start
A friend of mine asked me what she could do for her teenage exchange student. This student was in the middle of a multiple, day-long teenage tantrum. The mother had told her exchange student that she couldn’t attend a sleepover because the family doesn’t do sleepovers. The teenage exchange student, in turn, became very emotional
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Support Call 12-22-17
This Call Covers:
- How to help children who are compulsive liars
- Ways to show compassion without coddling your children
- Dealing with anxiety in small children
- Helping a child overcome swearing and backtalk
- Fun Games for the whole family!
- Dealing with calm down spot infractions/staying calm yourself
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To Find Personal Success, Give Yourself a “No” Answer
Self-government is being able to determine the cause and effect of any given situation and possessing a knowledge of your own behaviors so that you can control them. This means that each person decides what type of person they ought to be and plans for how to become this person. When, as it always does,
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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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