Support Call 6-24-16
This call covers:
- Helping children follow through with a job
- Extended family might need TSG more than the immediate family. Struggling to keep things peaceful and calm in the extended relationships
Tone
Support Call 6-17-16
This call covers:
- Summer tip! Helping family relationships stay strong with friends in the picture more.
- My 8-year-old daughter has a friend who will invite her to play, then leave her and go play with other people without warning. Ideas?
- 13-year-old son will NOT talk about the topic of changing schools. He immediately gets angry and refuses to discuss it. What do I do?
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Daddies Who Slay Dragons
4 year old Avery Vidrine explained fathers like this, “They work hard, slay dragons, and love us!” This 4 year old girl obviously knows what it means to be a father and a protector. She has seen evidence in her own life. Her mother, Emily, said that Avery sends her father off to work every …
Support Call 6-10-16
This call covers:
- 13-year-old son was over-socialized when he was young. Needs help socializing properly.
- Preparing children for family gatherings with cousins who don’t have the same family culture as us.
Pre-Teaching For Summer Activities
Do you have some awesome family trips or activities planned for this Summer? It’s going to be the best Summer ever! However, what are you going to do when the children start acting out? TSG on the go is always a little harder than at home. How are you going to keep them calm, happy, and obedient? How will they stay by you when you’re in a crowded place?
Helping Children With Asperger’s To Stay Focused
High-functioning Autism/Asperger’s can cause children to have a hard time focusing on the task at hand. Simple tasks often becomehour-long undertakings,ending up with parent andchild frustrated and angry.
Humanity And Changing Hearts
Humanity is such an interestingthing. Do we really understand it? Do we really know what it is? How do we define “being human?” In order to be human, we must understand nature; what God created. Once we understand that, we can begin to understandhuman nature.
Support Call 5-20-16
This call covers:
- Recap of the World Congress of Families
- Age 5 son taks and asks questions constantly. How do I help him rein it in?
- Getting age 2 to respond to TSG better
- How to handle out of control behavior at church
- Definition of “principled”
Support Call 5-13-16
This call covers:
- Paije’s 18th birthday! Children are growing up!
- World Congress of Families in Republic of Georgia
- Trusting children to be good
Self-Government Teachers In Kenya Report In This Video
In November 2015 we visited Kenya and taught many religious leaders, teachers, social workers, family advocatesand parents how to teach self-government in Kenya. It was the first time we did a training like this outside of the United States. When we departed, we had a prayer in our hearts that the wonderful Kenyan TSG mentors …
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Support Call 5-06-16
This call covers:
- How to help15-year-old daughter care about being with her younger siblings and not care so much about friends and electronics.
- How family work relates to chores and should children have chores?
A Mighty Mother’s Heart!
The heart of every mother desires for her child to find his place in the world, but that same sweet mother’s heart just about breaks when her child goes into the world for his life’s journey. Within the past two years I’ve joyfully sent my two oldest children out of the country to help people …
Support Call 4-29-16
This call covers:
- Helping husband with his tone.
- Son is having trouble keeping his thoughts away from other men.
- Follow-up with age 5 son who hits, bites, and kicks.
- Husband not on board and son is addicted to electronics and is physical.
What Inspires Sibling Rivalry?
Fighting over seat positions in the car, teasing, bragging, one-uping… Does any of this sound familiar? Do situations like these arise frequently in your home between your children? These situations are classified assibling rivalry.It can be very distracting and disruptive in the home.
What If Your Child Is A Bully?
Let’s be careful not to bully our children into not being bullies. In a recent Huffington Post article a mother talked about how she taught her daughter”to damn well treat people right.” (Sorry for the language. That washer exact quote.) In the article the motherthreatened her daughter with no ride to school if the daughter …
Support Call 4-20-16
This call covers:
- Pornography resolution on Utah Capitol Hill.
- Struggling with TSG through daughter’s puberty.
- How to teach TSG principles in a religious setting to younger children.
- Comment on pornography resolution.
Support Call 4-15-16
This call covers:
- Camping fun!
- Bringing about an attitude adjustment about “no” answers with age 9 (almost 10)
- Struggles with getting son 6th grader to do homework. Possible anxiety or ADD issues.
- Energetic 10-month-old that deliberately does things he knows he shouldn’t and has started biting and hitting.
Support Call 4-08-16
This call covers:
- The sweetness of a long marriage and my husband.
- 12-year-old son has been fantasizing about girls and kissing and more. He tells his parents, but they’re not sure what to do exactly.
- Age nine daughter has recently been homeschooled. She is defiant and manipulative. She causes lots of contention. What to do.
- Grandchildren are really picky eaters. How to help them broaden their horizon.
- Teenaged son is very proud and power struggles all the time. Will hit and bully. How to help him.
Support Call 4-01-16
This call covers:
- Happy April Fool’s Day!
- Balancing time between two young children and a fussy new baby.
- Inspiring 15-year-old son to want to self-govern. Very strong-willed.
- Age 4 daughter likes to change her clothes multiple times a day. It’s getting out of hand.
- Connecting with older children through TSG.
Support Call 3-9-16
This call covers:
- Priorities in group problem solving
- Saving our daughter’s identities
- Mother interfereing with adult sister’s life. Should I correct her?