For Christmas Dadzoo gave me a wonderful gift, one that I have been eating up since I opened the package Christmas morning.

It is a book and a seminar on CD about teaching children self government.

I love it.

Love, love, love it!

I first encountered Nicholeen Peck when a friend forwarded this link to me:
http://teachingselfgovernment.com/worlds-strictest-parents-video-part-1_482/
Nicholeen Peck and her family were asked to be on a BBC show called “Worlds Strictest Parents”. They hosted two out of control British teenagers for 10 days. Well I watched the hour long program on my computer and I was moved, to put it mildly. Actually I was moved to tears. I knew I had to learn more about the method this family used to create peace and harmony in their home.

I went to Nicholeen’s blog (http://teachingselfgovernment.com/) and poured through the archives trying to glean as much information as I could. I was able to get quite a bit and I started to use it in our home. However, it just wasn’t enough, there were some holes and some ideas in the whole philosophy as it was presented on the blog (her blog is more of a question answer format for people who have read her books or listened to the seminar). So Dadzoo for Christmas got me the seminar on CD and the book.

Our lives have changed.

Dramatically!

Our home is happy, peaceful, loving.

My tough kids aren’t so tough anymore.

Everybody knows what to expect and Dadzoo and I know how to handle everything that pops up.

We are teaching, not tricking our kids into behaving.

The kids are smiling, and speaking nicely to their siblings.

We have a family government.

We have a family purpose.

Most importantly, all this points us towards our Heavenly Father.

I highly recommend everyone to peruse her blog, purchase her seminars and books, or find them in the library and start teaching your children how to govern themselves.