Support Call 4-21-18
This Call Covers:
- Potty training issues
- Helping children use self-government with each other.
- Calming techniques
- Dealing with the gay issues at church.
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Skills
The Battle Hymn of a Just Parent
“I like Dad better than Mom,” I said to my younger brother one sunny afternoon while sitting on the back of our rusty old Suburban. The moment I said that I knew that just a few weeks prior I was telling him that I liked Mom better than Dad. I knew I had changed my
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Support Call 4-13-18
This Call Covers:
- Talking with teenagers who don’t want to talk
- Helping children not manipulate while on time out
- Sleep training with young children
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How Many Times Do We Have to Talk About the Phone?
No matter the amount of technology that’s developed to filter devices in order to keep children from viewing objectionable material, the mental, physical and spiritual risks of digital devices facing children have never been greater. Note: In this article I’m using the word “phone” liberally to mean all digital devices that are in regular use
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Families Of Light
“Mommy, what makes the moon shine?”askedmy six-year-old daughter, Londyn. “The moon reflects the light of the sun,” I responded. After a brief discussion about the moon and the sun, I realized that her question was really profound. Innocence almost always finds truth.I’m grateful for that.The moon reflects the light from the sun. It never turns its back on the sun either.It always faces it.The moon loses light when things get in the way, like the earth.The moon has the power to control the tides on the earth; the very thing that gets in the way.
Support Call 3-30-18
This Call Covers:
- Helping a young child with a computer addiciton
- Rebuilding a relationship with a rebellious teen
- How to truly master the TSG skills
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3 Ways to Foster Unity in a Contentious World
I participated in a recent demonstration at the United Nations to oppose the sexualization of children by UN agencies. These agencies are supposed to protect children. Right in the middle of my speech, a woman opposed to my views stuck a piece of paper in front of my face. The contentious act by this woman,
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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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Support Call 3-21-18
This Call Covers:
- dealing with cousins with different values
- helping a child who is prone to lots of touching
- giving reasons for corrections
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Thanks to Pre-Teaching, Melanie Sees the Future
Years ago I was participating in a sewing activity at my church. Many women had gathered at the church with their sewing machines. At this activity, there was a four-year-old girl that kept touching the knobs on the sewing machines. Her mother tried to keep her in control and punished her by putting her into time-out when she touched the machines. She didn’t stop trying to touch the machines —even though this girl was punished each time .
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Support Call 3-2-18
This Call Covers:
- Helping husbands develop more self government skills
- How to help children not power struggle while disagreeing appropriately
- Dealing with bullies
- Stoping children who struggle with being violent
- Restitution and correction of stealing
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Trade Time for Anger: Find Calmness and Patience
“You never can tell with bees,” said A.A. Milne’s cherished character Winne-the-Pooh. This was Pooh Bear’s naive way of saying he didn’t understand why bees did the things they did. He made his best guesses, but he always seemed to guess wrong and find himself in a prickled gorse bush — instead of feasting on
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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 2-16-18
This Call Covers:
- Helping someone parent children with autism/aspergers
- Determining if a child should play at another friend’s house
- Being consistent in the TSG implementation
- Do you have to know everything before you implement?
- Keeping a good tone all the time
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6 Tips for Making the Most of Your Car Time Together
Despite the fact that my parents worked very hard to provide for their growing family, some experiences were memorable in an uncomfortable way. I’ll never forget driving through Death Valley during the summer. It was 105 degrees in the middle of the night. We did our best to keep us all from roasting to death
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Support Call 2-9-18
This Call Covers:
- Helping a child who chooses violence instead of accepting a consequence/no answer
- Promoting focus in young children, especially those with mental impairments
- Recommended books for familes
- TSG with really young children
- Teaching young boys about the proper use of violence and force.
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Praise for Parents!
I want to thank you all for your great comments over the years regarding your success and transformation as parents! It’s so good to hear your stories. I’m constantly receiving emails with comments like, “I’m learning that I have the same behavior that bothers me about my child,” or “I have [this/that] weakness that I’m working on.” Please keep your comments coming. What amazing examples you are of parents who are focused on governing themselves. I hope you are all happier because of what you have chosen to see in yourselves. Recognizing a problem is the first step toward freeing yourself.
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Support Call 1-26-18
This Call Covers:
- What to do when a friend’s family completely disrespects you in your own home.
- Helping out a stubborn child
- Dealing with laundry problems
- A computer addiction in a child
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Always Stay Consistent with Consequences Earned
“Yesterday my 8 year old was grumpy when asked to do something, so he earned a negative consequence. I asked him to choose a job from the job jar.I explained that the job would help him change his heart.He then got very cheerful and said he was sorry for being grumpy… and wanted to be allowed to not do the job because he had changed (after all, he reasoned, the attitude was the reason for the extra job).
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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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