This Call Covers:
Single parents rasing children
Making a mission statement with a spouse who doesn’t agree
Giving chores to a child who is emotionally volitile
TSG with independent children
Summer activities in hot climates
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TSG and Depression
ADHD and following instructions
Helping children who refuse to get calm
Strong willed children
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Recently, while texting with my oldest son, he asked, “Hey, what do you want for Mother’s Day?” I shouldn’t really admit that I don’t like those kinds of questions, but the truth is I don’t. Maybe it’s because my love language isn’t gifts, or maybe it’s because I never know what to say. The most
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Preventing excessive consequences
Going out of instructional control during the 24 hour loss of privliges
Teaching children to play independently
Children who don’t like praise
Bedtime restlessness
Helping children who are hoarders
Teaching positivity to younger children
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Helping children who are indecicive
Making traditions about holidays
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Parents are meant to shepherd their children toward truth and safety, as well as in learning skills, in order to prepare them for the purposes of their lives. But not all shepherds are the same. Two sisters were given some sheep to care for, and a promise that the sheep would be of great value
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Using stories to teach the four basic skills
Teaching boundaries
Navigating difficult social circles
Helping a child with Reactve Attachment Disorder
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The multiculturalism of modern society, or desire to promote all ideas or ways of living as good, no matter their opposition to moral, religious, social, and familial cultural norms, is creating negativity and confusion when it comes to attitudes about marriage and family. People have spent their young years reading books and watching movies that
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This Call Covers:
Helping spouses with follow through on consequences
Correcting children who are naturally drawn to immodesty
Stopping lying
Correcting other’s children when they are caught stealing
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This Call Covers:
Leaving children on their own
Talking about sex with children
Helping children with their chores.
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This Call Covers:
Helping children overcome video game addiction
Stopping negativity in children
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A week ago, I was standing in the kitchen canning peaches, and my whole family atmosphere fell apart all around me in a matter of five minutes.
My son was asked by his father to help with something in the back yard. My son didn’t want to do it, so he decided to have an attitude problem about it. My husband was stressed, and chose to get upset, instead of teach to the situation correctly. (We all have our moments of weakness from time to time.)
My daughter was supposed to be cleaning her room, and was playing her piano instead. She had lost focus. (She is ten, this happens sometime
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This Call Covers:
Helping teenagers buy into TSG
Preventing runaways
Correcting destructive behaviors
The real point of correcting children
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In his book, “The Power of Positive Thinking,” Norman Vincent Peale shares a story of a pastor talking to a painter about worrying. “Howard, don’t you ever worry?” the pastor asked the painter. The painter laughed and said, “No, not on your life. I don’t believe in it.” The painter goes on to tell how
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Helping silly children who “take it too far”
Creating a Family Vision in hard times
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Fun is so important for good personal and family health.Every Sunday we choose a family activity to do together sometime thatweek.My children also set a fun goal for the week with their father.He asks about their goal and makes sure they accomplish it. It’s great relationship-building time with their dad.
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This Call Covers:
Finding the right homeschool curriculum
Helping children not to fight during family meeting
Fun activities with kids
Young Child craft ideas
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“Is it okay for children to correct their parents?” I often get asked by parents who are hoping to be just in their parenting. My answer to them is, “Well, that all depends how and when it’s done. There is a right way and a wrong way to correct children, and for children to correct
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I frequently get asked if Teaching Self-Government principles still work while you’re on a family vacation. The answer is a wholehearted yes! I’ve used the principles on many trips over the years, once for three weeks straight during two different vacations.
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“If our society is coming apart at the seams, it is because the tailor and the seamstress in the home are not producing the kind of stitching that will hold under stress. In the name of giving advantages, we have too often bartered away the real opportunities of our children.” (1981, Be Thou an Example,
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