Support Call 3-21-18
This Call Covers:
- dealing with cousins with different values
- helping a child who is prone to lots of touching
- giving reasons for corrections
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Problem Solving
Support Call 3-2-18
This Call Covers:
- Helping husbands develop more self government skills
- How to help children not power struggle while disagreeing appropriately
- Dealing with bullies
- Stoping children who struggle with being violent
- Restitution and correction of stealing
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Trade Time for Anger: Find Calmness and Patience
“You never can tell with bees,” said A.A. Milne’s cherished character Winne-the-Pooh. This was Pooh Bear’s naive way of saying he didn’t understand why bees did the things they did. He made his best guesses, but he always seemed to guess wrong and find himself in a prickled gorse bush — instead of feasting on
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Support Call 2-9-18
This Call Covers:
- Helping a child who chooses violence instead of accepting a consequence/no answer
- Promoting focus in young children, especially those with mental impairments
- Recommended books for familes
- TSG with really young children
- Teaching young boys about the proper use of violence and force.
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Stopping Conflicts Before They Start
A friend of mine asked me what she could do for her teenage exchange student. This student was in the middle of a multiple, day-long teenage tantrum. The mother had told her exchange student that she couldn’t attend a sleepover because the family doesn’t do sleepovers. The teenage exchange student, in turn, became very emotional
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Support Call 1-12-18
This Call Covers:
- Teaching children not to be judgemental
- Dealing with anger management issues
- Helping you maintain your patience when you’re running thin
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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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Lest We Forget: The Vision of Educating Young People
This is the time of year the focus of the world is on education and preparing our children to learn and grow toward success. We enroll the children in classes, schools, programs and activities in hopes they will get an education to prepare them for the future. Is our current educational plan adequate for the
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To Find Personal Success, Give Yourself a “No” Answer
Self-government is being able to determine the cause and effect of any given situation and possessing a knowledge of your own behaviors so that you can control them. This means that each person decides what type of person they ought to be and plans for how to become this person. When, as it always does,
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Freedom Without Consequences
Is your teenaged child not getting everything done that they need to in the day? Are they slacking off on their duties and assignments? I had a mother present me with a similar situation, concerned about her 16-year-old son and his lack of productivity. She couldn’t quite determine whatwas going on and wanted some advice.
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Support Call 4-14-17
This call covers:
- How to help aged 5 child get ready in the morning.
- Controlling unwanted, inappropriate thoughts (teenage son).
- Becoming more focused on self-government and stressing less about homeschool.
- Dealing with disobedience in the early stages of TSG.
- Helping younger children want to get out the door on time.
- Resolving expectations and entitlement.
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6 Steps for Making Siblings Friends, Not Foes
One night, after my parents left to go on a date, my brother and I started fighting. I vividly remember the fight getting to the point where both of us were standing on a couch threatening each other with broomsticks. This sad memory changed me. Many times over the years I’ve had that memory return,
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Solutions for Today’s Teenage Sexual Problems
The other day I was attending a very heated legislative committee meeting in Utah where changes to the way state school teachers teach about sexual health were proposed. I recognized someof the legislators were not acknowledging the real solution to the problems facing teenagers. Debate and public comments on the proposed changes went on for
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Have Millennials Been “Dealt a Bad Hand?”
Those born approximately 1982-2004 are often referred to as Millennials. They’ve been teased in countless online videos, articles and casual conversations. They’re often mocked for the way they see themselves, view the world, believe where happiness comes from, and for their position on the purpose of life. The characteristic of their generation that is most
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Support Call 12-16-16
This call covers:
- Thoughts on being an older mother
- Shame VS. Guilt (“mini class”)
- Coming up with better consequences
- Letting go of negativity
- Is it a need for attention or just being overwhelmed?
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Support Call 6-17-16
This call covers:
- Summer tip! Helping family relationships stay strong with friends in the picture more.
- My 8-year-old daughter has a friend who will invite her to play, then leave her and go play with other people without warning. Ideas?
- 13-year-old son will NOT talk about the topic of changing schools. He immediately gets angry and refuses to discuss it. What do I do?
- (This call had some technical difficulties on the second question. We apologize. Please read the notes for more on it.)
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Support Call 5-20-16
This call covers:
- Recap of the World Congress of Families
- Age 5 son taks and asks questions constantly. How do I help him rein it in?
- Getting age 2 to respond to TSG better
- How to handle out of control behavior at church
- Definition of “principled”
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What If Your Child Is A Bully?
Let’s be careful not to bully our children into not being bullies. In a recent Huffington Post article a mother talked about how she taught her daughter”to damn well treat people right.” (Sorry for the language. That washer exact quote.) In the article the motherthreatened her daughter with no ride to school if the daughter
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Support Call 3-9-16
This call covers:
- Priorities in group problem solving
- Saving our daughter’s identities
- Mother interfereing with adult sister’s life. Should I correct her?
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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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