Support Call 12-29-17
This Call Covers:
- How to create a solid and wholesome family culture
- Some questions about children’s behavior during extra chore time
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Family Culture
Who Are You This Christmas?!
Christmas is full of symbols and characters that inspire us and that we can relate to. We all want to be Santa for someone each year, so we look for needs that we can meet anonymously — just like he would. Some of us relate to Rudolph. We feel different, but know that our difference
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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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Support Call 12-1-17
This Call Covers:
- How to help high-energy children interact with each other and not get hurt
- How long/often you should hold your child in the calm down spot
- Giving very tired children consequences and corrections. How to deal with excuses.
- Helping children reach economic goals
- Stopping children from stealing food.
- How to balance homeschool and housework
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How to Reach the Heart of Your Child… and Yourself
Reaching a child’s heart is vital for awakening his conscience and morally training him to desire to make good choices, but structure also has a part to play in training the heart. This is a true story, and a new parenting lesson, of how to help a person understand the truths behind your teachings. Structure
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Support Call 11-22-17
This Call Covers:
- How to help a child overcome an eating disorder.
- Fun holiday ideas to do as a family.
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The Illusion of Innocence Facing Today’s Children
In a world full of sexual depravity, diverse addictions, familial dysfunction, lascivious social platforms, manipulative media, and irate people of all ages, is it possible to even hope for our children to have an innocent upbringing? A routine trip through a store like Walmart, for example, can start a child’s brain processing in sexual and
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There Are Other Ways
A few years ago, Paije, my daughter who was seven at the time, asked me, “Why do all the ants get flustered when the leaf drops in their path on the movie Bugs Life?” What a question. I had never really taken the time to analyze that part of the movie; probably because I never really liked that show.
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Christian Families in Pakistan Uniting to Learn Self-Government
Younas and Martha Martin are from a small Christian community in Lahore, Pakistan. While looking for a school to send their daughter to, they researched the top U.S. universities to see which ones had the strongest family values. They ultimately decided upon Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. After their daughter married and settled down
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Support Call 10-6-17
This Call Covers:
- Children still earning lots of extra chores
- Parental influence on child’s behaviors
- Teaching sensitive children
- Using exercise as a negative consequence
- Implementing TSG as a whole family
- Dealing with allergies AND picky eaters
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10 Ways to Create Stories That Unite Us
My son, Porter, loves to visit a restaurant near our home named “Porter’s Place”. Recently our family was eating there around a big round table and one of the children said, “Dad, tell us that story from your childhood about the fire you shouldn’t have started in the field near your home.” At this point
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A Letter of Hope From a Mother To Her Children
It might seem unusual to share this personal letter publicly, but I felt many mothers and fathers could relate. My two oldest children have recently left from home. The combination of those events, the ongoing negative messaging about motherhood and families, as well as a few positive events (like the upcoming Mom’s March), inspired me
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Support Call 9-22-17
This Call Covers:
- How to help children “bust” their boredom
- Dealing with perfectionism
- Making a mission Statement
- Helping children to stop fighting with each other
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Lest We Forget: The Vision of Educating Young People
This is the time of year the focus of the world is on education and preparing our children to learn and grow toward success. We enroll the children in classes, schools, programs and activities in hopes they will get an education to prepare them for the future. Is our current educational plan adequate for the
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Support Call 9-1-17
This Call Covers:
- How to deal with friends having different values at your home
- Children who scratch
- How to help children who are rude and disrespectful
- Correcting strong willed children
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Loosen Up! It Makes Life Fun!
This comment was made by a blogger. My comments arebelow.
“Our family has serious lack of enjoyment issues. I think we just don’t know how to have fun because we are afraid to spend any money on frivolousness when we have debts to pay, and we have not done anything for so long, we don’t know what to do to just get away and have fun together.”
Family Activities don’t have to cost.
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Is That Behavior a Phase or a Warning Sign?
“Mom, I think I’m in a phase where I just want to dress comfortable instead of cute. For the last couple of weeks, I don’t even think about dressing nice,” said Londyn, my 15-year-old daughter who has an eye for style, and who always looks good. “Do you think it’s really a phase?” I asked.
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Support Call 7-7-17
This Call Covers:
- Teaching children proper work ethic through extra chores
- Dealing with children who sneak out, are disconnected from the family, etc.
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Modern Times Call for Pioneering Parenting
Bethany, a troubled parent, recently shared a shocking story that all too often illustrates what parents nowadays are dealing with: “After we caught our 11-year-old son sending pornographic photos of himself to strangers on Snapchat, we took his phone away. We told him he could have it back in a couple of weeks, but that
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Freedom For Families: The Tree Bark Approach
“Give Me [Tree Bark], Or Give Me Death”: Liberty Yesterday And Today
No speech has ever stirred the American people so much as Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death” speech. No matter if I see a professional orator perform it with eloquence, or a young child reciting that speech, it touches my heart with goodness and purpose.
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