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Carving Out More Family Quality Time in a Fast-Paced World

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

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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Quality, Quantity and Conformity: How Much Time Do Kids Really Need?

Leave a Comment / All, Relationships / Nicholeen Peck

For years, sociologists, governments and parents have been trying to determine whether the amount of time a parent spends with their child actually matters for the child’s success in life. How are we to know what’s best for our children and our families? We don’t need charts or questionnaires; we just need to look around

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10 Lessons for Listening With Love

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

Much emotional agony is avoided and more relationship healing is possible when a person learns to listen with love. There were two similar conversations that had very different results. The first conversation was between a mother and her son. The son told his mother about a problem he was having with a friend, but she

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How To Create Magical Family Memories

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

As I held my 15-year-old son’s hand and watched the magic of Christmas unfold around me with lights and nativity displays at the city center, I felt that date with my son was a parent’s dream come true. Who doesn’t dream of the perfect parent/child memory? We all want them, but could our desire for

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Making Any Holiday the Perfect Holiday

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

During this time of year when there are lists of things to do and places to go, don’t forget this one simple truth: people are more important than things. People are worth more of our focus than lists. We may think that the lists of things make the holiday perfect for the people, but that

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A Vow to be Positive

Leave a Comment / All, Home Culture, Relationships, Using TSG Skills / Monica Pond

Some might think that optimistic people are fake or somehow disconnected from reality, but I know for a fact that positivity is one of our choices no matter what circumstances are before us. Russell Nelsontaught that our “joy has little to do with the circumstances of our lives, but everything to do with the focus

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Family Traditions that Bind or Break or Unity for Christmas

Leave a Comment / All, Home Culture, Relationships, TSG Principles, Using TSG Skills / Monica Pond

Family traditions instill personal and family identity and bind families together throughout their many phases of growth and change. After children and grandchildren are grown and gone off to live their adult lives, the traditions remain as reminders of the sweetness of home and family, what is most important in life, and who they really

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Black Friday through Cyber Monday deals 2019

Leave a Comment / All, Announcements / David Eggertsen

Black Friday and CyberMondayare here! Here are the deals we’ve got for you this year that will be good Friday November29th through Monday December 2nd: Summary: 50% off Digital Products Extra $250 off Parenting Mastery in February 2020 25% off all physical materials including packages! 50% offall digital products*. This includes ourImplementation Coursewhich is a

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1 Easy Way to Wrap Your Holiday Gatherings In Love

Leave a Comment / All, Home Culture, Relationships, TSG Principles, Using TSG Skills / Monica Pond

“Do you see those sweet sisters over there? They inspire me. They couldn’t be more different, but they also couldn’t be more full of love toward each other than they are,” a friend of mine pointed out to me one day about two ladies who were her good friends. She went on to explain, “One

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“Choose Not to Be Harmed”

Leave a Comment / All, Children (4-10), Relationships, Toddlers (0-4), Youth (10-18) / Monica Pond

One day my father told me something so profound that it literally changed my social life and my personal empowerment forever. After I finished telling him about how another child at school had been mean to me, he said, “Nicholeen, sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.” I’m guessing

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Who Drives You Crazy?

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

“But what if they just keep talking back and are driving me crazy,” a mother asked me while I was instructing a group of parents on how to teach their children to accept “no” answers. The mother of three told the group she knew she needed help becausesometimes she feels so crazy, or out of

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Can I Use TSG with Someone Else’s Child? – Part 2

1 Comment / All, Relationships, TSG Principles / Nicholeen Peck

After responding to the woman who teaches Primary at church with my initial, general tips on how to use self-government principles in the classroom she wrote me back the following:

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The Artificial Extension of Childhood

1 Comment / All, Children (4-10), Home Culture, School, TSG Principles, Using TSG Skills, Youth (10-18) / Monica Pond

Are we holding our children back?In the past 80-100 years, society has started holding children back with an artificial extension of childhood instead of empowering them forward toward purpose and adulthood. Thomas At age 12, Thomas Edison convinced his parents to allow him to leave home in order to sell newspapers to Grand Trunk Railroad

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Can I Use TSG with Someone Else’s Child? – Part 1

2 Comments / All, Children (4-10), Relationships, TSG Principles / Nicholeen Peck

Back in 2008 I received a letter from a woman that teaches a class every Sunday at church. She was having difficulty managing the behavior of the children in her class (or rather, the children were having difficulty managing their own behavior!). She wrote…

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Family Meeting Tips

Leave a Comment / All, Home Culture, Using TSG Skills / Nicholeen Peck

Remember your family meetings! Family meetings are the core of Teaching Self-Government. If you have weekly family meetings, the whole family will stay focused on their family government. See what happens when you miss a few weeks, it’s noticeable. In my home it’s especially noticeable with Dad. He has less patience and focus as a parent when we miss our family meetings.

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Who Wants Realistic?

1 Comment / All, Home Culture, Relationships, TSG Principles / Nicholeen Peck

When one of our foster daughters lived with us years ago, she did something that the others hadn’t done. She spent the first few weeks very intently watching me. She watched the way I kept house, the way I parented my children, the time I spent reading scriptures and good books, etc.

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Not Perfect, But Definitely Exact

Leave a Comment / All, Home Culture / Nicholeen Peck

Perfection in parenting is nearly impossible to measure. God, the Perfect Parent, sets the perfect example. But we will always fall short because our attitudes, desires and intentions are not always as perfect as His. However, one of the many lessons from our perfect Godly Parent that we can focus on perfecting is our exactness.

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“I don’t remember…”

Leave a Comment / All, TSG Principles / Nicholeen Peck

Many years ago, my four-year-old son awoke me one morning and said, “Mom, I don’t remember what home looks like, but I do remember what you look like.”

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Parenting with Grace

Leave a Comment / All, Home Culture, Relationships, TSG Principles, Using TSG Skills / Monica Pond

Children aren’t perfect, and neither are parents. However, parenting isn’t about being perfect. And, there’s no such thing as a perfect child. Of course, perfection isn’t the goal of my parenting anyway. My goal has always been to create joyful adults. Joyful adults are those that know what their mission in life is and they’re

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The 9-Year-Old Dawdler Dilemma

Leave a Comment / All, Children (4-10), Using TSG Skills / Nicholeen Peck

I’m in need of some help with my nine-year-old son. He is a major dawdler, and always has been. I am a very efficient person and try to get things done as quickly as possible. See the conflict already? It takes gobs of time for him to do simple things like get dressed, brush teeth, eat breakfast, read his books, and other things that are very simple. He’ll start the task, but then literally just start walking around the house in circles, just doing nothing in particular except dawdling.

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Quality, Quantity and Conformity: How Much Time Do Kids Really Need?

Family Traditions that Bind or Break or Unity for Christmas

Black Friday through Cyber Monday deals 2019

Who Drives You Crazy?

Can I Use TSG with Someone Else’s Child? – Part 2

Can I Use TSG with Someone Else’s Child? – Part 1

Family Meeting Tips

Who Wants Realistic?

Not Perfect, But Definitely Exact

“I don’t remember…”

Parenting with Grace

The 9-Year-Old Dawdler Dilemma

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