A mother recently asked me how to help her daughter feel motivated to do anything besides sit around the house. She isn’t alone. With the new quarantine lifestyle, many families are thriving with the increase of family time, personal time, and relationship-building. But, even the most involved parents can still find that their child might […]
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Getting back on track with TSG
Feedback on SODAS
Combining TSG and Charlotte Mason
Doing chores and consequences
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One of the primary roles of parents is to be a leader of their children. Dedicated, motivated parents are usually one of two kinds of leaders; ambitious leaders or led leaders. While ambition seems like a powerful quality in a leader, it’s flawed because ambition is self-serving. On the other hand, a leader who is
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Helping children overcome being grumpy
Bedtime discipline questions
SODAS outside of the rule of three
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What is the proper balance of screen time during quarantine?
Helping calm pandemic concerns within the family
Children correcting each other
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Could it be that Coronavirus could actually cure your family? Now families have to be together all the time. Some families think this sounds awful. If a family is thinking this, then they are in need of lots of family time, not the contrary. In an effort to turn this pandemic into a blessing for
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Self government in a time of crisis
Siblings being silly
Calm down spot advice
Helping parents learn about your self government journey
Autism and being corrected by others
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Children who wet the bed
Helping younger children learn forgiveness
When your younger children want to earn money
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Trapped! That’s what many people feel like they are right now. Many children are complaining of being bored, or worse, having way too much screen time. Stress is infiltrating more homes globally by the day because businesses are closing their doors, people are losing their jobs, bills are still coming due, social distancing is making
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Helping young children who are afraid at night
Children who call people names
Helping children when they are being watched by someone else pt. 2
Small children who habitually power struggle
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Why do we cater to our stresses and forget to choose calmness? After all, calmness is the only state where we truly feel safe and empowered. Stress, anger, and frustration never lead to true empowerment or peace, only emotional bondage. In 1998, when I was the young mother of a small baby and a toddler,and
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Helping children learn to adapt
Disagreeing appropriately with a spouse
Helping perfectionist children accept teaching
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Leaving the children in the care of others
Toddlers and calmly following instructions
Family time at home when it’s not family night
Keeping the whole family involved in family meetings
Guidelines for calm down spots
Other mentoring for support members
TSG when sick
Mercy and the rule of three
Anxious children and freak outs
Helping teens who want to be immoral
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Bedtime extra chores
Cell phones and young children
Loving correction of spouses
Hard behaviors and children running from home
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Creating quality, loving family relationships requires discerning between what actions are really quality and what actions are nothing more than conformity to social norms. Creating these quality relationships doesn’t require elaborate planning, just time. Strong family relationships are built upon many components, such as good communication, honesty, trust, love, forgiveness, bonding, listening, shared vision, and
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Helping children develop productive hobbies
Legos and no answers
Young children and the calm down spot
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Nicholeen talks about mental health
Helping you children get good friends
Setting boundaries with friends
Support Call 1-29-20 Read More »
For years, sociologists, governments and parents have been trying to determine whether the amount of time a parent spends with their child actually matters for the child’s success in life. How are we to know what’s best for our children and our families? We don’t need charts or questionnaires; we just need to look around
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Preventing yourself from micromanaging
Helping your introvert children “fit in”
Children going out of control
Using the 4 basic skills with other adults
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How to help my family understand my vision
Micromanaging and touchy children
Masturbation in teenagers
Helping a spouse change their attitude
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