Our family loves games! We play card games, board games, outdoor games, sports, and imagination games. Sometimes we have conversations about games we play, but most of the time we talk about things of more substance such as family, improving relationships, truths we’ve found, books we’ve read, experiences we’ve had, memories we share, family history, […]
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Teaching boundaries to young children
Helping teenagers overcome an attitude and stay calm at home
TSG and potty training
TSG is for Everyone!
Getting the whole family on board for devotional
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Getting back on track with TSG
Feedback on SODAS
Combining TSG and Charlotte Mason
Doing chores and consequences
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No one likes errors, but we don’t need to handle them in ways that set everyone up for failure. We’ve all been there. We finally have time to go online to buy that perfect gift or to look up that news story we want to know about, and instead of successfully purchasing or reading the
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This is a recording of the full-day online seminar we held in April 2018. Once you purchase, the video recordings can be found in under the Courses menu on the Members page.
You can watch it all at once in a single day, or break it up over as many days as you need. There are 4 parts of about 2 hours each. It’s recommended that you at least watch one part per sitting, so plan accordingly.
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Is your home in crisis? Do your children never do what they are told? Do you find yourself completely overwhelmed and hating to interact with your children? Do your children treat you with disrespect and cause contention at home? Are you out of control of your emotions as a parent too? If any of these descriptions sound like your house, then you might be in crisis and you will definitely benefit from reading this book. It is written for you. This book is also written for people who don‘t want to ever have a home like I have described above and for parents who want to have an effectively communicating family right from the very beginning of parenthood.
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Siblings hitting each other
When is it appropriate to spank?
Making Family Meetings a priority
Support Call 4-22-20 Read More »
A mother recently asked me how to help her daughter feel motivated to do anything besides sit around the house. She isn’t alone. With the new quarantine lifestyle, many families are thriving with the increase of family time, personal time, and relationship-building. But, even the most involved parents can still find that their child might
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Getting back on track with TSG
Feedback on SODAS
Combining TSG and Charlotte Mason
Doing chores and consequences
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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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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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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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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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Helping children learn to adapt
Disagreeing appropriately with a spouse
Helping perfectionist children accept teaching
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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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Helping children develop productive hobbies
Legos and no answers
Young children and the calm down spot
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Nicholeen talks about mental health
Helping you children get good friends
Setting boundaries with friends
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Preventing yourself from micromanaging
Helping your introvert children “fit in”
Children going out of control
Using the 4 basic skills with other adults
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