Parenting Foundations
This is the ultimate goal of parenting, modeled after the way Heavenly Father treats His children.
What is Love (or Charity)?
This communication technique involves listening carefully and rephrasing what a child said to ensure they feel understood.
What is Active Listening?
This emotion is often a "secondary" feeling used to mask deeper hurts, fears, or frustrations.
What is Anger?
This type of consequence happens automatically without any parental intervention, such as getting wet when going out in the rain without a coat.
What is a Natural Consequence?
Instead of immediately punishing a child, a parent decides to validate the child's emotions calmly first. This is called:
What is "Connecting Before Redirecting"
These are the four basic areas of growth identified in the "Wisdom and Stature" model of child development.
What are Spiritual, Physical, Social, and Intellectual?
Instead of "You-statements," parents should use these to express their own feelings without sounding accusatory.
What are "I-statements?"
When our children have BIG emotions, we can "Name it to ____ __".
What is to "Tame it".
These consequences are arranged by parents but must be reasonably related to the misbehavior.
What are Logical Consequences?
This is the best setting for a family to collectively decide on household rules and the consequences for breaking them.
What is a Family Council?
This term describes a child’s unique, inborn style of reacting to the world, which parents should respect rather than try to change.
What is Temperament?
This is the practice of consistently providing a child with physical affection, time, and emotional support to build a secure bond.
What is Nurturing?
To avoid escalating a conflict, parents are encouraged to take this "cooling-off" period when they feel their anger rising.
What is a Time-Out (for the parent)?
According to the manual, parents should aim to give this many positive comments for every one correction or criticism.
What is Five to One (The 5:1 Ratio)?
What is a "Neutral Party?"
In Session 2, parents are taught that they do not "own" their children, but rather act as these for Heavenly Father.
What are "Stewards"?
We should seek first to __________, then to be understood.
What is to "Understand"?
When using the hand model, this is what the fingers opened means.
What is a "Flipped Lid"?
The manual states that the primary purpose of discipline is not to punish, but to do this.
What is To Teach (or Disciple)?
A parent feels stressed, tired, and annoyed at their child. They are more likely to take the ___ Road if their child misbehaves.
What is Low? (The Low Road)
This is the practice of looking past a child's annoying behavior to see their divine potential and worth.
What is "Seeing with Spiritual Eyes"?
True or False: Studies show that neglected children have been found to receive better grades than those who are nurtured by their parents.
What is false?
True or False: Some children misbehave because they do not know how to name or handle the emotion they feel.
To make a consequence effective, it should be given with this "R"—meaning it is handled with care and value for the child.
What is Respect?
True or False: Time-outs should be a go-to form of discipline.
What is False?