Support Call 9-4-19
This Call Covers:
Keeping the family motivated and productive throughout the school year
Developmental changes in teenagers and how to prevent selfishness
Potty training multiple children at once
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Four Basic Skills
Support Call 7-31-19
This Call Covers:
Manipulation from younger children and how to stop it
Controlling a completely out of control child
Helping a child who is constantly going through the Rule of 3
Parenting a compulsively defiant child
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Support Call 7-3-19
This Call Covers:
Helping a child plan for the future when they don’t seem to care
Self-government and young children
Lack of self-government in teens
How to become a TSG mentor
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Support Call 5-31-19
This Call Covers:
Helping children with confidence when their father isnt on board
Helping children to not go out of control
Keeping yourself calm
Too many extra chores?
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Support Call 5-24-19
This Call Covers:
Teaching proper emotional expression to children
Four basic skills instruction
Rule of three for strong willed children
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Support Call 5-3-19
This Call Covers:
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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Support Call 4-25-19
This Call Covers:
Dealing with dogs
Hyperactive children
Teenagers growing up
Doing the four basic skills
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Support Call 4-19-19
This Call Covers:
Helping children who are indecicive
Making traditions about holidays
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Support Call 4-5-19
This Call Covers:
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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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 3-1-19
This Call Covers:
Helping teenagers buy into TSG
Preventing runaways
Correcting destructive behaviors
The real point of correcting children
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4 Rules to Remember for When They Try to Correct You
“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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Stitching That Holds the Family Together
“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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Charitable Parenting
Even though the mistakes our children make are glaring us in the face, we also know that each of our children has certain attributes that make them wonderful, individual, and precious to us. Charitable parents focus more on those good, productive attributes than on the negative mistakes their children make daily. Each week I answer
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Support Call 12-14-18
This Call Covers:
Helping a spouse get motivated to do TSG
Getting children to focus with the family
Teaching children to disagree appropriately about what they want
Finding good gifts for children
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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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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 10-12-18
This Call Covers:
- Figuring out correction differences between spouses
- Proper tolerances for bad behavior
- Teaching Self-government to toddlers
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