Support Call 11-18-16
This call covers:
- Gratitude
- Does the same parent need to do the follow-up on instructions?
- Balancing work, having fun, and getting things done
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Skills
Support Call 11-11-16
This call covers:
- Becoming a better parent by not checking out and staying away from electronics more
- Using the Rule of Three with a raging 7-year-old
- Confusion on the calm down spot
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Helping Children Feel Secure in an Emotional and War-Ridden World
In the United States we have a new president. Some people are elated about this and others are sorrowing. Regardless of where each of us is on this spectrum of election emotions, change is in the air. Change is difficult for all of us, but especially for children. Not only are the children of the
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Support Call 11-4-16
This call covers:
- Staying calm when your toddler is harmful to your newborn.
- Managing outbursts at the dinner table from your teenager.
- Helping your child stop correcting their siblings.
- Maintaining the Rule of Three without punishing the rest of the family.
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Support Call 10-21-16
This call covers:
- Halloween thoughts
- Booklist to teach self-government and character to children
- Learning how to manage time
- Child roles and picky eaters
- Pokémon cards and other card games
- Role of the spouse
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Support Call 10-14-16
This call covers:
- Aged 6 son is a deep thinker and is hard to connect with. He also struggles with depression.
- Tolerances are too high. Three things that assisted in catching this.
- Competetive 6-year-old son who hates to lose and gets angry when he loses.
- Age 3 used to be very independent, but has become very dependent and needy.
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Support Call 10-07-16
This call covers:
- Emotional bullying.
- Child can be super sweet, but is mostly negative and rude.
- How to inspire motivation.
- Daughter demands time to calm down before starting Rule of Three. What to do.
- Out of instructional control off and on over multiple days.
- Not following instructions, but not out of control. What is supposed to happen.
- True and false information for Utah Sex-ed and lying.
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Support Call 9-30-16
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 9-16-16
This call covers:
- Aged 14 daughter doesn’t want to change and follow the family vision. What to do about it.
- Being homeschooled and trying to strengthen the family’s social culture.
- How to help sibling rivalry between toddlers.
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How to Help Your Children Keep Your Standards When They’re Away From Home
Parents painstakingly teach morals, principles, values and good judgment to their growing children in hopes that their virtues will be protected and their standards upheld throughout their lives. Yet, day after day youth are tested in social situations. Sometimes they stumble as they compare their values and morals to the world’s ever-changing social standards and
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Support Call 9-02-16
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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Support Call 8-26-16
This call covers:
- Things not being in order and the tone not being right. Feeling overwhelmed and in chaos. Friend lets daughter run around naked and thinks it’s appropriate. Social modesty and modesty of the heart. And, about JK Rowling and channeling.
- Son won’t give mother time of day. It’s like she’s not even there. How to fix that relationship.
- What classics canchildren read beside JK Rowling books?
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Recipe for How to Raise an Unspoiled Child
“Porter, you’re being whiny and you need to stop it,” said Spencer, my husband, in exasperation one evening. He had just treated the children to a day of fun times and snacks, and even purchased souvenir T-shirts for them. Spencer had had enough. The funny thing was that Porter’s whiny moment was the first occurrence
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Support Call 8-18-16
This call covers:
- Thoughts on entitlement
- Son only starts to obey when he is taken to the calm down spot.
- How to implement TSG with multiple adult children living at home.
- Getting younger children to do their chores when they don’t want to.
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Support Call 8-12-16
This call covers:
- Changes for this school year
- Dishonesty and disrespect from our 14-year-old.
- What can I do to build my relationships with my children, especially my 15-year-old?
- Experiences, capacity, and skills. Also, balancing homeschool with 4 children under 6.
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Support Call 7-29-16
This call covers:
- Having trouble teaching my children and doing SODAS
- My son hates anything to do with hygiene. Help!
- My daughter will follow an instruction, but pouts and whines while she does. What do I do there?
- We have an adult child in the home who is making decisions that aren’t within our family standard. What do we do there?
- New Sunday school teacher for age 7 and they haveenergy.How do I help them not be distracted by one person?
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Teaching Children Respect Just Got Easier!
“Perhaps I shouldn’t even tell people about this because it’s probably bad, but I just felt I had to do it,” said a friend of mine shortly after a trip with her four-year-old son to the gas station. My friend — we’ll call her Joanna — is a hip, young mother of two small children
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Support Call 7-15-16
This call covers:
- Younger brother using violence, such as hitting and biting, to defend himself from his older brother.
- Mother switched to using a loving tone, but her son is pushing away from her even more. Attachment issues.
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Support Call 7-08-16
This call covers:
- Religious liberties
- Thumb sucking, biting nails, and wetting pants
- If it’s okay for a child to lie in certain circumstances
- Distraction with chores
- Rivalry between brothers
- Spitting when getting a no answer
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1 Skill To Improve Calmness For The Whole Family
While swimming with my family one day the calmness of our pool experience was interrupted by one very loud, very stressed mother. If only this mother was able to see the hearts of her children and everyone else in the pool area. If she could have taken a moment to do just one simple skill
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