Support Call 5-4-18
This Call Covers:
- Helping children become less critical of others
- Stopping children from becoming voilent
- Keeping children on task who struggle with focusing
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Support Call 12-22-17
This Call Covers:
- How to help children who are compulsive liars
- Ways to show compassion without coddling your children
- Dealing with anxiety in small children
- Helping a child overcome swearing and backtalk
- Fun Games for the whole family!
- Dealing with calm down spot infractions/staying calm yourself
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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 4-01-16
This call covers:
- Happy April Fool’s Day!
- Balancing time between two young children and a fussy new baby.
- Inspiring 15-year-old son to want to self-govern. Very strong-willed.
- Age 4 daughter likes to change her clothes multiple times a day. It’s getting out of hand.
- Connecting with older children through TSG.
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Support Call 2-26-16
This call covers:
- Helping youth ages 12-16 keep their boundaries when in a group together and being kind to one another.
- Dealing with young daughters that go from best friends to worst enemies.
- Both parents work full time and cherish every moment with their children. Wonderingif homeschooling would be a good choice.
- Getting age 18 daughter to stop procrastinating and being late to and with things.
- Started a Commonwealth school, but has allowed it to take over the rest of life and looking for a way to fulfill responsibilities at the Commonwealth and at home.
- Just attended Parenting Mastery Retreat and realising that our tolerances are too high. Also, having a hard time keeping track of every consequence earned. Thoughts?
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Support Call 9-18-15
This call covers:
- My child, age 6, can’t even look at me when I’m giving him an instruction. How can he follow an instruction if he can’t even look at me?
- My 5-year-old son is great at telling me what to do when he earns an extra chore, but when he actually earns one, he goes completely out of control. What do I do?
- My husband doesn’t like to participate in family meetings. Is it possible to have meetings without Dad? Can we still have family unity?
- My children don’t like to redo things when they do something wrong. How do I help them participate in redoing a situation?
- How many times can you go into the Rule of Three? My son keeps getting distracted and I’ll start it, then he’ll calm down. But three minutes later, we’ll be back in the same place all over again. How does this work exactly?
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Consequences
My kids are really hard workers (At least I’ve taught them one thing right!) so they are not bothered at all by doing an extra job or even doing jobs for one hour or all day. It’s not their favorite thing to do but they will do it without complaining and then go right back to the same behavior that we were trying to fix. I know it sounds crazy but these are unusual kids I’m raising!
Mom’s hang-up
“Thanks so much for all the wisdom and inspiration you share. I have a son (age 11) who zapps so much emotional energy from me. Over the last several months, I’ve really been trying to see things as they are and trying to determine how to handle things. He is a great kid. He’s the first one to help a younger sibling who is hurt or to give up his ice cream cone is one of his younger siblings dropped theirs. He is also the one who complains the most, rolls his eyes back into his head and gets “that look” when things do not go his way. I know that he is often “out of instructi