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Support Call 4-05-2023

Leave a Comment / Home Culture, Relationships, Using TSG Skills /

This call covers:

In Need of Clarity in using Self-Government…Something doesn’t feel right.
Perfectionism
Opportunity to meet Porter
Rule of 3
Calming Down for Children 8 and older before entering the rule of 3
4 Year old extremely strong willed
Driving and Following Instructions
Keeping calm while being sick
No answers between siblings
How family and mentor meetings look with the booklets
Using skills in public
Time limit for Rule of Three instructions
Reading “Roles” with older children

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Support Call 3-29-2023

Leave a Comment / Age, Home Culture, Relationships, School, Toddlers (0-4), Youth (10-18) /

This call covers:

Electronics Addiction
Solo Mum – And 15 Wants To Give Commands To Siblings
Practicing Calm Down
24 Hour Loss of Privilege and Major Maintenance
Does Co-Sleeping With Children Discourage Self-Government
2 And a Half Year Old Boy Does Not Accept a “No” Answer
Job/Phone/and Out of Control
Speaking Over Me During Pre-Teaching
Bedtime Battle
Implementing TSG with older children
Emotional Bondage Habit After Loss of Privileges
Dinner Time With Seven Year Old Son
“I Want Things To Be Fun and Funny!”
Navigating Values With a “Culture War” between parents
Young son is physically abusive and won’t take responsibility
Anger during role playing session
Navigating work time with young children

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Today’s Complexity Demands More Simplicity

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by Nicholeen Peck “It’s harder for children nowadays with all of the technology and temptations and bad examples”, a mother said to me at a recent conference where I was speaking. We talked for a moment about the differences between her childhood and the childhood of her children. She was concerned. She felt lost and

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Support Call 3-15-2023

Leave a Comment / Age, Children (4-10), Home Culture, Relationships, Using TSG Skills, Youth (10-18) /

This call covers:

Calming Down a 6 Year Old
Daughter Thinks TSG Doesn’t Let Her Have Control
Teen son not learning the lesson from corrections and extra chore
Teen At Risk
Messy bedroom and constantly out of instructional control
Love of Learning
Problems At School
Children feel mother’s cleanliness standards are too high
Teen sneaking cell phone into the house
17-year-old daughter is always late to work and boss is enabling behavior
Success story: pre-teaching Rule of Three
Using TSG in a homeschool co-op group

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Support Call 3-08-2023

Leave a Comment / Age, Children (4-10), Relationships, School, Toddlers (0-4), Youth (10-18) /

This call covers:

4-year-old toilet issues
Homeschooling, disorganized home, work/money
9 yr/old that won’t make eye contact
Advice about grandparents’ visit
18-year-old daughter living at home, not working, not going to school
Incorporating TSG in Children’s Ministry
Calming down in all situations & mutism
Video game addiction and mental fracturing
Finding a media balance for the family
Praise becoming a negative trigger
Success story with children at a funeral

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Support Call 3-01-2023

Leave a Comment / Age, Children (4-10), Home Culture, Relationships, Toddlers (0-4), Youth (10-18) /

This call covers:
“No” answers for young children (22 months and younger).
Regression of skills after being tended by Grandma.
Tween son not wanting to let video games go.
Age 3 child influenced by inconsistency in parenting due to divorce.
Scheduling the family chores and life.
Implementing TSG in an unstable parenting/family situation.
Trouble with using the word “Roles”.
Using TSG language to manipulate family members.
“No” answers about social media for teens.
Child not wanting to follow through with a class.
Parents wanting teens to spend more time at home with family.

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Mindset Makes or Breaks Family Bonds

Leave a Comment / Children (4-10), Home Culture, Relationships, Toddlers (0-4), TSG Principles, Using TSG Skills, Youth (10-18) /

“My daughter is so ungrateful! All I do is serve her, but she doesn’t care about me or what I feel. And, she never helps out, even when I ask nicely,” an exasperated mother told me about her teenage daughter. In a later conversation, Emily, the daughter said to me, “I never get anything my

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Where Love Is…

Leave a Comment / Children (4-10), Home Culture, Relationships, Toddlers (0-4), TSG Principles, Using TSG Skills, Youth (10-18) /

Love runs deeper than many people realize, and the outcomes of love are significant. We all recognize when we don’t feel loved or when we have a hard time feeling love for someone who isn’t behaving lovingly. But, what we don’t often recognize is that love isn’t something that can be turned on and off

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The Kindness Advantage

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Choosing kindness strengthens relationships, increases resilience and promotes emotional non-fragility, helps us solve problems, and is a choice that leads to happiness. Many parents tell me that they hope for their child to develop kindness. Indeed, kindness is a characteristic that develops. It’s a word that describes actions that display love or respect for others.

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Practice Good Relationships This Christmas

Leave a Comment / Children (4-10), Home Culture, Relationships, Toddlers (0-4), TSG Principles, Using TSG Skills, Youth (10-18) /

It may seem trite and slightly overused to say it, but the old adage, “Make every day Christmas,” has more power than you might think. In fact, maybe, just maybe, the way to have life feel like Christmas every day is to truly live the spirit of Christmas in our relationships at Christmas time. Practicing

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