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Couple’s Meeting Journal

The Couples Meeting Journal is used with the Family Meeting Journal and Mentoring Journal as integrated parts of the Teaching Self-Government family system.

The marital relationship affects all of the family relationships. If the relationship between the parents isn’t healthy, then all of the family relationships become weak.

The couple’s meeting sets the stage for strong family relationships. Parents can discuss issues with the family before meeting with the children, and speak unitedly about topics. That unity helps love, unity and happiness in the home to grow.

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How to Thrive When You’re Trapped Inside

1 Comment / All, Home Culture, Relationships, School, TSG Principles, Using TSG Skills /

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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Choosing Calmness Amidst All the Stress

Leave a Comment / All, Children (4-10), Home Culture, Relationships, Toddlers (0-4), TSG Principles, Using TSG Skills, Youth (10-18) /

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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Support Call 2-19-20

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This Call Covers:

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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Carving Out More Family Quality Time in a Fast-Paced World

Leave a Comment / All, Children (4-10), Home Culture, Relationships, Toddlers (0-4), TSG Principles, Youth (10-18) /

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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10 Lessons for Listening With Love

Leave a Comment / All, Children (4-10), Home Culture, Relationships, Toddlers (0-4), Using TSG Skills, Youth (10-18) /

Much emotional agony is avoided and more relationship healing is possible when a person learns to listen with love. There were two similar conversations that had very different results. The first conversation was between a mother and her son. The son told his mother about a problem he was having with a friend, but she

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The Artificial Extension of Childhood

1 Comment / All, Children (4-10), Home Culture, School, TSG Principles, Using TSG Skills, Youth (10-18) /

Are we holding our children back?In the past 80-100 years, society has started holding children back with an artificial extension of childhood instead of empowering them forward toward purpose and adulthood. Thomas At age 12, Thomas Edison convinced his parents to allow him to leave home in order to sell newspapers to Grand Trunk Railroad

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