Support Call 5-16-18
This Call Covers:
- creating a discussion-based home environment
- teaching gratitude
- correcting lying/negative attention seeking
- figuring out when to use the rule of three
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Teens (Youth)
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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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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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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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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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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Support Call 1-5-18
This Call Covers:
- Learning Self-Government in a oppositional environment
- Discerning if someone is actually calm
- Dealing with an adolecent media addiction
- ADHD and routines
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Support Call 12-29-17
This Call Covers:
- How to create a solid and wholesome family culture
- Some questions about children’s behavior during extra chore time
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Support Call 11-22-17
This Call Covers:
- How to help a child overcome an eating disorder.
- Fun holiday ideas to do as a family.
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Support Call 11-17-17
This Call Covers:
- Helping strong willed children accept self government
- Helping children not give in to peer pressure
- Correcting immodest dress in your home
- Correcting crying in small children
- Getting a spouse on board with TSG
- Helping Children be more focused
- Increasing self worth in children
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Support Call 11-2-17
This Call Covers:
- Helping someone calm down without power struggling
- Do parents get consequences?
- Enforcing an already broken family standard rule
- Helping children to have clean language
- Adjusting time limits for people who break the rules often
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The Illusion of Innocence Facing Today’s Children
In a world full of sexual depravity, diverse addictions, familial dysfunction, lascivious social platforms, manipulative media, and irate people of all ages, is it possible to even hope for our children to have an innocent upbringing? A routine trip through a store like Walmart, for example, can start a child’s brain processing in sexual and
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Support Call 10-27-17
This Call Covers:
- Staying calm when the children are fighting.
- Dealing with teenager attitude problems
- Bedtime with children sharing a room
- Disabilities and bad behavior.
- Having a personal calm down plan
- Helping children with laundry
- Overcoming shyness
- Children who are violent
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Support Call 10-6-17
This Call Covers:
- Children still earning lots of extra chores
- Parental influence on child’s behaviors
- Teaching sensitive children
- Using exercise as a negative consequence
- Implementing TSG as a whole family
- Dealing with allergies AND picky eaters
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10 Ways to Create Stories That Unite Us
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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A Letter of Hope From a Mother To Her Children
It might seem unusual to share this personal letter publicly, but I felt many mothers and fathers could relate. My two oldest children have recently left from home. The combination of those events, the ongoing negative messaging about motherhood and families, as well as a few positive events (like the upcoming Mom’s March), inspired me
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Lest We Forget: The Vision of Educating Young People
This is the time of year the focus of the world is on education and preparing our children to learn and grow toward success. We enroll the children in classes, schools, programs and activities in hopes they will get an education to prepare them for the future. Is our current educational plan adequate for the
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Support Call 8-11-17
This Call Covers:
- Dealing with rebellous teenagers w/ self-esteem issues. Teaching children about proper socialization
- Bedtime Antics
- Adult relatives judging differences in parenting
- Consistency struggles
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Support Call 8-4-17
This Call Covers:
- Helping older children get calm and in control
- What to do when your child ignores you and other adults
- Rule of three manipulation
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