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Popular Parenting Methods

The Power of Calm

Seek to understand

Acceptance

Love & Mercy

Family activities

Praise

Trust

Family Culture

Family Vision

 

Family Mission Statement

Family Standard

Tone

Structure

Family Meetings

1. Couples

2. Family

3. Mentor

4 Basic Skills (+1)

1. Following good instructions

2. Accepting "no" answers

3. Accepting consequences

4. Disagreeing appropriately

(+1) Giving a good instruction

5 Teaching Styles/Forms (Skills)

1. Praise

2. Pre-teaching

3. Corrective Teaching

4. Intensive Teaching: Calm Spot & The Rule of Three 

5. Parent Counseling Session

Family Economy

1. Extra chore

2. Major Maintenance & SODAS

3. 24 hour loss of privilege's

Relationships

Modern Progressive (fear)

Bully / Fear-based (fear)

Traditional Strict (faith)

The Individual

1. Recognize the Power Struggle

2. Check Yourself*

3. Seek to Understand: What's      not being seen?

4. Know What to Say

5. Wait for it

6. Really Understand: 

   Relationship building

The 5 keys of Self-Government

1. Roles                 2. Assess              3. Make a Plan          4. Act Deliberately       5. Communicate Effectively:

Relationships,

Identity,Vision 

& Mission.

Where is my heart?*

What am I

thinking and feeling?

What is the truth?

What is wanted?

What is mine to do?

What skill/principle do I/they need here?

What are the words

I will speak, place I will come from and actions I will take?

Do what is yours to do from a place of real love, grounded in truth.

Assertive ="Speaking the Truth in Love"

Non- effective forms:

Aggressive

Passive

Passive aggressive

Teaching Self-Government

     "At a Glance"  Map

As a Certified Holistic Health & Wellness Coach & Practitioner, D.D. Black combines her love for neuroscience & our incredible bioenergetic systems, with fundmental holistic health education and her love for supporting families as a Certified Teaching Self Government Family Mentor, to gracefully connect true principles of health & wellness with vital life skills for thriving relationships, strong homes & whole-being health. In doing so, she is supporting the individuals & families of today in getting to and gracefully transforming the "heart" of the issues we suffer and struggle with, creating together much fuller lives of lasting peace, true wellness & joyful living - "Not by "fixing" & beyond healing alone, to learning, practically applying & living well, what is so incredibly right with, & right before us."  As we do, hearts are truly healing, homes & relationships are powerfully strengthened & the health & wellness of individual lives are beautifully transformed. "One heart, one home, one hand at a time."​

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