Support Call 4-15-20
This Call Covers:
Getting back on track with TSG
Feedback on SODAS
Combining TSG and Charlotte Mason
Doing chores and consequences
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This Call Covers:
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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This Call Covers:
Helping children overcome being grumpy
Bedtime discipline questions
SODAS outside of the rule of three
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This Call Covers:
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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This Call Covers:
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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This Call Covers:
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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This Call Covers:
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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This Call Covers:
Helping children learn to adapt
Disagreeing appropriately with a spouse
Helping perfectionist children accept teaching
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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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This Call Covers:
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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This Call Covers:
Helping children develop productive hobbies
Legos and no answers
Young children and the calm down spot
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This Call Covers:
Nicholeen talks about mental health
Helping you children get good friends
Setting boundaries with friends
Support Call 1-29-20 Read More »
This Call Covers:
Preventing yourself from micromanaging
Helping your introvert children “fit in”
Children going out of control
Using the 4 basic skills with other adults
Support Call 1-22-20 Read More »
This Call Covers:
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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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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As I held my 15-year-old son’s hand and watched the magic of Christmas unfold around me with lights and nativity displays at the city center, I felt that date with my son was a parent’s dream come true. Who doesn’t dream of the perfect parent/child memory? We all want them, but could our desire for
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