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Support Call 12-8-17

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This Call Covers:

  • Helping young children accept no answers
  • How to help an extremely independent child stay in instructional control
  • Dealing with very obstinate children
  • Creating an inspring home atmosphere for your children
  • What to do when one sibling acts in open contempt towards another
  • Helping young children genuinely calm down

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Support Call 12-1-17

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This Call Covers:

  • How to help high-energy children interact with each other and not get hurt
  • How long/often you should hold your child in the calm down spot
  • Giving very tired children consequences and corrections. How to deal with excuses.
  • Helping children reach economic goals
  • Stopping children from stealing food.
  • How to balance homeschool and housework

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Stories

10 Ways to Create Stories That Unite Us

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My son, Porter, loves to visit a restaurant near our home named “Porter’s Place”. Recently our family was eating there around a big round table and one of the children said, “Dad, tell us that story from your childhood about the fire you shouldn’t have started in the field near your home.” At this point

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Modern Times Call for Pioneering Parenting

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Bethany, a troubled parent, recently shared a shocking story that all too often illustrates what parents nowadays are dealing with: “After we caught our 11-year-old son sending pornographic photos of himself to strangers on Snapchat, we took his phone away. We told him he could have it back in a couple of weeks, but that

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sibling rivalry

6 Steps for Making Siblings Friends, Not Foes

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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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Support Call 12-9-16

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This call covers:

  • What we’ve done this Christmas Season and some good Christmas stories and videos to read and watch
  • How to correct a child that overreacts
  • Small son won’t stay in the calm down spot. What’s the process for keeping him there?
  • Noticing bad habits in the children that can be fixed
  • Oldest child turning 18 and difficulties that come with that

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Healing Relationships with Family This Holiday Season

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Relationships make or break the holidays. For some, holiday family parties are stressful because of unhealthy relationships. They know attending traditional family gatherings and sending Christmas cards to “loved ones” is important. However, that ball of hurt, frustration and disgust creeps into their throat whenever they think about past relationship problems, making attending family events

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Support Call 9-30-16

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This call covers:

  • Becoming a joyful adult yourself.
  • Easy going to control freak toddler.
  • Manipulative and controlling son.
  • Young son pees all over things and won’t be patient. He does it purposely sometimes.
  • Daughter needs to wear glasses and eye patch, but doesn’t like to because she gets teased by step family and others.
  • Son has new phone for a few days and already has looked at porn sites. How to address that.

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Support Call 9-02-16

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This call covers:

  • Twin 6-year-old boys who struggle with lying, cheating, and stealing.
  • New to the program and has a 10-year-old son who rages and gets angry.
  • Aged 2 son slaps, pinches, and rips. He’s a little bully.
  • Adopted daughter won’t open up about anything and phone is a constanct companion.
  • Entitlement confusion.

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