Parenting A House United

Changing Children's Hearts and Behaviors by Teaching Self-Government

By: Nicholeen Peck

Narrated by: Nicholeen Peck

Many family fights, communication break downs, relationship disconnections, and overall stress and frustration can be solved if parents and children learn the principles and skills of self-government. This second edition of Parenting: A House United is the improved version of Nicholeen’s original basic guide for establishing a united self-governing family.

Learn the communication skills needed to teach children to govern themselves. With the proper family environment and understanding of childhood behaviors, homes can become happier. Even if families simply implement some of Nicholeen’s tested parenting principles their family unity will improve. Nicholeen’s candid story telling style and experience with tough teens and strong willed toddlers makes the book usable and a joy to listen to. Listen to more at https://teachingselfgovernment.com.

©2020 Nicholeen Peck (P)2021 Nicholeen Peck

Must read for every family!

This book provides the tools needed to create a respectful, loving family atmosphere with communication skill scripts that will enable you to put the knowledge into action. If only we were taught this in all organizations-church, school, and employment the world would be a better place!

Lots to unpack

This is a great book. I started reading it but it was taking me a while to complete & I felt like the details of what I needed was towards the last few chapters so I decided to listen to the rest of the book I was slow to get to. It is a slow build which was challenging for me but every chapter had things that was necessary to build to the next/future chapters. Overall good. Praying it helps in the challenges I’m having when it comes to parenting.

epic and based

wonderful stuff for any parental units. I like that pieces and parts of this system can be applied and adapted as appropriate per economy.

Very helpful advice and information!

I am so grateful I found Nicholeen Peck and I have been practicing her teachings, it has made a huge difference in my family, listening to this audio book helps me and explains everything in full detail, this is important for my children at the ages they are for me to become better at teaching them and talking to them, thank you for the guidance to help me strengthen my family!

Listening was key for me

I have had a physical copy of this book for years and have tried several attempts to incorporate these principles and this program for my family but since the book is long I often got stuck at certain parts that I wanted to master. But listening to Nicholene read the book helped me to feel the spirit of her message and also keep it at the forefront of my mind each day. I’d listen while at the gym first thing in the morning and start my day with these principles and values in my heart. My days are flowing much more smoothly and I feel more able to govern myself which has been key for our family success. Our home and family was full of disrespect and contention. I was impatient and felt trapped in my own home. A these 2 tips made all the difference and helped me get started:

1. Don’t problem solve or try to teach until everyone is calm (including me). I put this on my phone to help me remember: 👇🏼

“It seems to me you want to tell me something. I want to know what that is but we need to choose to be calm first. Then we can talk about it.“

2. I recognized the triggers that made me feel angry and out of control (not calm). For me personally, it’s my children fighting and overall chaos or feeling physically out of control. It helped me to see when this was starting to happen and take time to get calm before attempting to fix the problem. (This goes hand in hand with my first tip.) Before, when I was overwhelmed, I’d rush to fix the issue and was working with my emotional brain and often had regrets afterward. Now I allow myself to get calm.

I highly recommend this system and process. It is not for the faint of heart and requires quite a bit of time to learn it all but it has been transformational for our family! I wish I would have done it sooner!