Index: Tone

Overcoming the Expectation Trap “What are expectations?” Are they good or bad? An expectaion is an ideal which we superimpose on reality. This class in about how expectations go wrong, and how they go right. https://s3.amazonaws.com/1-SupportCalls/2017/07July/TSG_SC_7-28-17_ExpectationTrapClass.mp3 Support Group: Finding Your Effective Voice Tone People always ask me how they can change their voice tone. Well, since I had to figure… Read more »

Understanding and Improving Family Activities https://s3.amazonaws.com/Implementationstepsaudio/01+Understanding+and+Improving+Family+Activities-.mp3 This 43 minute class talks about how to make your family activities more meaningful and how to use them to create a tone shift in your home. Audio Gem: Holiday Traditions This week’s Gem is on remembering the most important thing during the holidays or any time of the year – the relationships. My favorite quote from… Read more »

Many years ago I co-directed a youth theater production of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” On our last day of performances, we had a matinee and an evening performance. The matinee performance started under lots of stress. We were missing our stage hand, our sound person and two actresses, and everyone was stressed. The only thing we had time to do was… Read more »

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 future our children will face?… Read more »

In an ideal world, children would dutifully do their chores not only as effectively as Mom or Dad would do them, but also without delay.Unfortunately, we don’t live in an ideal world. Human brains, especially child brains, are wired to find more efficient ways to do tasks in order to save time or effort. These brains create great innovations in… Read more »

There is hardly a day that goes by that I don’t find myself laughing, belly-laugh type laughing, with my children. Just the other day Porter and I were driving down the road and I mixed my words up which was kind of comical. When this happened, Porter started laughing. Then I started laughing. We ended up laughing most of the… Read more »

Over $70 value! We have been making do with scribbles for our meeting notes – but these are so beautiful and so many pages!  It will be so great to have all our meeting and SODA history in one place to refer back to. Thank you! — parent Includes: Family Meetings Journal Couples Meeting Journal Mentoring Journal S.O.D.A.S. Journal... Read more »

Chris W. shared this shocking story with me about his experience last week with his son at a California park. “My son and I were playing soccer at a park in the bay area of California. Multiple African American boys came up to my son and started punching him in the head for no reason. When I attempted to stop… Read more »

Those voices all around me; “You’re wasting time,” they say. The yard,dishes,big project… Read more »

Those voices all around me; “You’re wasting time,” they say. The yard, dishes, big project Were waiting for today My lists are overwhelming; Still waiting to be checked. If I don’t get those things done This day just might be wrecked. My boy; age three, approaches. His eyes are set on me. “Mommy, help me with my socks,” He says… Read more »

There are more sources for comedy than ever before with online video platforms, social media memes, and GIFS, yet people aren’t happier. In fact, depression and suicide statistics that are increasing all the time show us that people are sadder and more hopeless than previous generations. No program, hotline number, or amount of money or worldly goods will make society… Read more »

Think of the voices that surround our children. Voices leading children to love money, God, family, power, popularity, prestige, entitlement, activism, intellectual achievement, personal worth, truth, pleasure-seeking, time wasting, productivity, industry, judgment, despair, and more.   It’s easy to see how some of these voices mislead and hurt a child’s potential. Yet, these voices oftentimes come from people who say,… Read more »