Support Call 3-13-18
This Call Covers:
- Helping younger children understand the TSG skills
- Dealing with children after daycare
- Helping a child to reconnect with the family
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Rewards
Support Call 2-23-18
This Call Covers:
- Giving children allowances
- Dealing with young children’s behavior in a growing family
- How to help a power-struggling child
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Support Call 1-19-18
This Call Covers:
- Helping out with parent calmness
- Does TSG promote abuse and vulnerability?
- Dealing with lying children who threaten to run away
- Helping a child who is prone to breaking things
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Support Call 12-15-17
This Call Covers:
- What a TSG bedtime looks like
- When is it ok to micromanage?
- Helping children with potty training
- Using the modified rule of three
- Disciplining yourself during pregnancy
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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 10-27-17
This Call Covers:
- Staying calm when the children are fighting.
- Dealing with teenager attitude problems
- Bedtime with children sharing a room
- Disabilities and bad behavior.
- Having a personal calm down plan
- Helping children with laundry
- Overcoming shyness
- Children who are violent
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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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Support Call 3-03-17
This call covers:
- Answers to questions and announcements.
- Specifics on doing corrections in the car.
- Staying calm and facing power struggles from your children.
- The difference between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation.
- Feeling more understood when you disagree appropriately.
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Even Adults Have To Use The Four Basics…
We might think that teaching the Four Basic skills is mainly for the children. They’re the ones who need them the most, right? Well, maybe adults need them just as much as the children do.
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Support Call 3-16-16
This call covers:
- St. Patrick’s Day and an experience to think about
- Angel baby to “terrible 2’s’
- Picky eating toddlers
- Problems with a 3-year-old
- Trouble with older children negative attention seeking and getting up earlier with them to study
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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 12-11-15
This call covers:
- My 2-year-old son is very stubborn and strong-willed and he “pushes back” at me, but not at Dad. What do I do about this?
- All of my children are dawdling through their chores and their school. How do I help them overcome that?
- How does “say okay and be okay” work with no answers? Mychildren cry, whine, and get attitude problems when they don’t get their way.
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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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Support Call 7-3-15
This call covers:
- Accepting a consequence and having “calm down time” before going through the Rule of Three.
- Siblings ages 2 and 3 having a hard time playing nicely. What do I do?
- Age 3 daughter has started sticking out her tongue when she gets an instruction. How do I correct this young version of an attitude problem?
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Support Call 2-15-13
- Using TSG while babysiting other people’s children
- Having respect for parent authority.
- How to handle several different scenarios, such as threatening, whining, controlling others, micromanagement, etc.
- What todo when your babysitters don’t know the TSG language.
- Using treats for rewards
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Conference Call 11-16-12
This call covers:
- Correcting behavior while traveling and what to do when you have different standards from the people you are visiting.Falling off the TSG wagon and getting back up.What to do when you spouse isn’t on board.
- 14 year old manipulative son and Disagreeing Appropriately
- Loss of privileges on a Sunday. Daughter plans her loss of privileges to happen when she can’t lose them.
- Discouragement
- When and how to teach the family the TSG program
- Children’s friends who keep bringing electronic devices to the house. What to do about it.
- Role Play Ideas for making it more fun, staying away from bribing and the upcoming video
- Pulling yourself out of a slump
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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