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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Family Standard
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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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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Stepping Away From What They Believe
It’s hard to see a good family friend or loved one stray from the things you both know and believe. Things inevitably end up changing. The relationships become different and sometimes strained. However, you still want to stay close to them. How is that to be achieved? And, how do you break it to the children without them thinking these good people are not so good?
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A Heart-Melting Christmas
“Look what I got for Christmas,” said my friend Megan as she held up a single serving package of crackers with a small red stick for the spreadable cheese. At eight years old I was shocked. There I was holding my new doll and standing next to my doll’s stroller. Immediately I knew I needed
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Is Giving a Child a Smart Phone Smart? Facts to Consider
The first cellular phone became available to the public in 1984. By 2007 Apple had made the Apple iPhone, which has since taken the cellular phone world by storm. In 23 short years, society went from brick-sized phones to handheld computers. Today, smart phones are everywhere. Even many of the tribal people in Africa now
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How to Help Your Children Keep Your Standards When They’re Away From Home
Parents painstakingly teach morals, principles, values and good judgment to their growing children in hopes that their virtues will be protected and their standards upheld throughout their lives. Yet, day after day youth are tested in social situations. Sometimes they stumble as they compare their values and morals to the world’s ever-changing social standards and
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Support Call 7-29-16
This call covers:
- Having trouble teaching my children and doing SODAS
- My son hates anything to do with hygiene. Help!
- My daughter will follow an instruction, but pouts and whines while she does. What do I do there?
- We have an adult child in the home who is making decisions that aren’t within our family standard. What do we do there?
- New Sunday school teacher for age 7 and they haveenergy.How do I help them not be distracted by one person?
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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 3-4-16
This call covers:
- Schedule switch-up for March!
- How to access the BBC “The World’s Strictest Parents” video.
- 5-year-old is really big and it’s physically dangerous to hold him in the Calm Down Spot. Tried the Rule of Three and it’s worked mostly with him. Don’t like switching though. Thoughts?
- 20-month-old won’t stay in bed and hits his siblings.
- Engaging with child’s therapist and getting child to open up.
- Just starting homeschool and needing tips.
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Support Call 1-29-16
This call covers:
- Dad and children are constantly teasing each other and husband can’t take criticism. It’s creating lots of problems.
- Husband and 15-year-old son are addicted to media, mostly the son. Video games have made him a different child.
- When it’s okay and not okay to compare with your children.
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Support Call 5-22-15
This call covers:
- My age 17 daughter is having too much online social time and isn’t spending time with the family when she is home. How can I help her?
- When my son was younger, he threw something at me that required me to go to the hospital. Sometimes, when his siblings are mad at him, they’ll bring up the incident and tell him “what a bad person” he is. How do I help him through this?
- My age 14 son has struggled with an almost daily masturbation addiction. We’ve gone to the bishop and made goals, but he keeps falling back into old habits. What do we do to help him overcome this issue?
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Bodies For Sale! Teaching Modesty
“…Everyone is selling something,” I said as I talked to a young girl one evening.
Her mother had just made a comment about how the outfit the girl was wearing was “too revealing” and so she would need to go change it. The fifteen year old girltilted her hip and rolled her eyes as she smirked at her mom. This smile meant, “I don’t care what you say.
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Dealing with Friends part 4
How do you help your children stand up for what’s right without being “preachy” or “goody-goody”?
The most importantskill you can teach your child is how to determine what is right and what is wrong and how to choose right and stay away from wrong. This is the whole reason children need parents. If my child can’t match his outfits, doesn’t know how to do mathematics well, never changes his bed sheets, ortalks with his mouth full, it doesn’t really matter at all if he has mastered how to discern between what is right and what is wrong and chooses to follow right.
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Appropriate Touch
“You mentioned you have touching rules for friends, family, and neighbors–do you mind sharing them?”
There are rules and boundaries for touching for different groups of people. Know what they are and make sure your kids know what they are too.
The Times We Live In Part 2
“My husband works at a jail and just a few weeks ago a man we both know from school and church was brought in on sexual charges. His niece was supposedly the victim. Both of us were very surprised, as we wouldn’t have expected him of doing such a thing. Whether he is guilty or not, we will probably never know.However, after discussing it, we both thought that not only is it important to try to protect our children from this type of thing, we also need to take steps to protect OURSELVES and our own reputations.”
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The Times We Live In Part 1
A reader wrote to me telling me about a young neighborhood child that introduced things of a sexual nature to her daughter. This is not a fun subject. I have been avoiding putting it on the site, but the more I think about it, this topic is probably one of the biggest things parents face. How do we keep our children free from the disease of sexual impurity that seems to be taking over our world? How do we make them aware while not taking away their innocence?
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