Asking for Suggestions what to Pre-teach

Nicholeen,

Thank you so much for all your resources for teaching self-government. I have a 14-year-old and have been praying for years for more guidance to being a better parent, realizing that most of the problems my son has is from my parenting. I haven’t known how to change my parenting for the better (aside from prayer which has helped a lot!) and struggle much because of how I was raised (with minimal communication.) I am excited to fully implement self-government in our household but am feeling a bit overwhelmed. My parents rarely had conversations with me (a counselor has told me before that I was “emotionally orphaned”) and I struggle knowing what to pre-teach. It would be such a help to have a resource of suggestions for what to pre-teach.

I also have two small children and have used your bedtime pre-teach with success which gave me the idea to use the “stop” “go” game (red light, green light) to pre-teach my daughter to listen to me when I tell her to stop since we live on a busy street and have had to chase her to catch her from going into the road on several occasions!

Thank you so much for all that you do to help families!

In Christ,
Joanne Eamsaard