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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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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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Spouses who are onboard with TSG, but the Implementation Course is too long
Consistency struggles as a parent
Getting a family adjusted to a new TSG system
Helping an emotionally manipulative child
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“Do you see those sweet sisters over there? They inspire me. They couldn’t be more different, but they also couldn’t be more full of love toward each other than they are,” a friend of mine pointed out to me one day about two ladies who were her good friends. She went on to explain, “One
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This Call Covers:
Discussing the seperation between emotion and logic in parenting
Parents disagreeing appropriately with each other
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This Call Covers:
Helping small children deal with separation anxiety
Passive-Agressive out of control children
Learning to love children who won’t show love back
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“But what if they just keep talking back and are driving me crazy,” a mother asked me while I was instructing a group of parents on how to teach their children to accept “no” answers. The mother of three told the group she knew she needed help becausesometimes she feels so crazy, or out of
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This Call Covers:
In detail explanation of he rule of three
Children who say really alarming things
Helping children to adjust to a divorce
Young children and stress
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When one of our foster daughters lived with us years ago, she did something that the others hadn’t done. She spent the first few weeks very intently watching me. She watched the way I kept house, the way I parented my children, the time I spent reading scriptures and good books, etc.
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This Call Covers:
Keeping the family motivated and productive throughout the school year
Developmental changes in teenagers and how to prevent selfishness
Potty training multiple children at once
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This Call Covers:
Development in young children
Processing between men and women
Helping children wake up better
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Children aren’t perfect, and neither are parents. However, parenting isn’t about being perfect. And, there’s no such thing as a perfect child. Of course, perfection isn’t the goal of my parenting anyway. My goal has always been to create joyful adults. Joyful adults are those that know what their mission in life is and they’re
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“I hate that I’ve been mean to my children before,” confessed a father I was speaking to recently. Instead of calmly handling difficult situations, this father had become frustrated a few times and lost his temper with his children. His voice tone and body were humble as he confessed this. He wasn’t making excuses for
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This Call Covers:
Handling multiple out of control children
Correcting children in the car
Helping siblings that don’t get along
Stopping interupting
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Freedom in the family is the key to raising children who are freer and more independent. The problem is, most people don’t understand freedom. Many families institute complete license without consequences assuming that’s freedom and that it will lead to independent children. But in reality, it leads to emotional bondage and relationship dysfunction. Personal freedom
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Helping children adapt to the college experience
Improving self esteem in teenagers
Emotionally reactive children
Loss of privliges and the rule of three
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In an ideal world, children would dutifully do their chores not only as effectively as Mom or Dad would do them, but also without delay. Unfortunately, we don’t live in an ideal world. Human brains, especially child brains, are wired to find more efficient ways to do tasks in order to save time or effort.
When my son was 12, he sang barbershop with his dad and grandpa.A few nights a week they had long rehearsals.One night, my son didn’t get to bed until midnight after a rehearsal.He slept in the next morning and realized he missed helping the Boy Scouts deliver flags for Pioneer Day.He said, “I guess I was just too tired to get up.”
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