This call covers:
Clarification between not engaging until calm and doing the rule of three.
Son fearing a lot of things.
Wanting to avoid a child.
Dropping the subject after the rule of three.
7 year old not following rules and slamming doors.
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Sadly, teaching strategies for proper social and emotional health are often unorganized and conflicting. Parents are left feeling like they need to choose between teaching children to have self-control and teaching children to be emotionally heard. These choices seem like opposites to most people. But, to a person who has true emotional intelligence, both of
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An online school teacher was recently giving me the highlights of his career. He proudly told me that his favorite part of his job was that he gets to teach children discernment. I could see how this would be exciting for him but was also instantly concerned. A series of “what if” questions came to
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Parents and school administrators have requested that I make a short, free curriculum that parents can use to help their children navigate some of the social issues children are often forced to encounter at young ages. This curriculum is basic but deep, and it’s a principle-based lesson plan to help parents prepare their children to
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An exasperated woman, whose marriage was falling apart, said to me, “Nicholeen, my husband is obsessed by principles. He keeps telling me that I don’t understand principles and that I’m not living by principles. How do you define principles?” This woman’s husband lived according to his own made-up rules, such as hiding things from
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Think of the voices that surround our children. Voices leading children to love money, God, family, power, popularity, prestige, entitlement, activism, intellectual achievement, personal worth, truth, pleasure-seeking, time wasting, productivity, industry, judgment, despair, and more. It’s easy to see how some of these voices mislead and hurt a child’s potential. Yet, these voices oftentimes
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A teenage girl talking back to her mother in an airport about her emotions said, “We have to let our emotions out. I’m being true to myself. I won’t stuff my emotions just because you don’t want to hear them!” The mother, who had told her daughter that she couldn’t use her phone anymore, was
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This call covers:
Helping children get calm.
Creating set no answers.
Helping children remembering to check back.
Homeschooling methods and fears.
Explaining set no answers (making messes and cleaning them up) to children.
setting boundaries with teens who have boyfriends, and older siblings roles.
husband having anger problems.
Family meeting troubles.
Teaching toddlers TSG.
Building trust with technology.
Helping children recognize emotions V.S feelings.
constantly nagging children.
feeling hopeless about your family.
Support call 1-13-21 Read More »
Relationships require selfless service to survive. Although there are multiple reasons people site for their relationship dysfunctions, from infidelity to arguments, relationship problems usually all have two things in common: dishonesty and selfishness. According to The Institute For Family Studies, the leading causes of divorce are: infidelity, incompatibility, drinking or drug use, growing apart, a
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This Call Covers:
Finding good books for children to read
Creating a culture where consequences count
Helping children who identify as gay
Dealing with children who rebel
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This Call Covers:
Helping children who want to do things “their own way”
Curbing lying with teenage children
Bible verses for TSG families
Teaching children hygine
TSG in the car/on the road
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This Call Covers:
Dealing with though teenagers
Children who struggle in school
Helping children understand masks in a pandemic
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This Call Covers:
Developing a family economy
Learning to become a strict parent
Teaching children about money management
Stoping bitting
Changing to TSG later in life
Youth groups and bullying
Success Stories!
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Sick, horrified, disgusted, and worried are just some of the words that describe how I felt when an innocent search through the student portal of the Utah Online Library database pulled up graphic porn in a resource that was supposed to be for children about daddies. The resource said that daddies were adult men who
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This Call Covers:
Extra chore variety at home
Doing extra chores during the summer
Corrections while someone is on 24hr loss of privileges
Staying calm while working with foster children/social workers
Controlling personal trigger points
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This Call Covers:
Calm down time manipulation
Out of control teenagers
Four basic skills refresher
How to stop getting overwhelmed with TSG
Calm down time manipulation
Out of control teenagers
Four basic skills refresher
How to not get overwhelmed with TSG
Avoiding lecturing
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This Call Covers:
Doing the rule of three with teenagers
What to do when a child tries to order the parents around
Helping inspire a teen to launch into adulthood when they don’t want to
What to do first in the TSG University
How to help children overcome anxiety with difficult assignments
Changes in the new editions of Parenting a House United
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This Call Covers:
Implementing TSG in hard times
How much time should TSG take?
Social distancing fears
Transitioning to homeschooling
Helping children who get distracted during SODAS
Bringing TSG to life
Tips on implementing TSG for new members
Support Call 5-13-20 Read More »
No one likes errors, but we don’t need to handle them in ways that set everyone up for failure. We’ve all been there. We finally have time to go online to buy that perfect gift or to look up that news story we want to know about, and instead of successfully purchasing or reading the
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In a new class given to a live audience, Nicholeen Peck discusses how to get your children ready for life by teaching obedience as part of Homeschool. Being able to be obedient is the first and fundamental building block of Self-government, especially in an education setting. If you long to have your children live up to their potential, or to just get their math done, this class is a must for the homeschooling parent, whether new or veteran.
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