Reading aloud from my favorite childcare advice book on how to be a responsible and caring adult to children.

Printable tools: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sVIJiq_EEu6S7oyghjKufKjSFroogjtF/view?usp=sharing

The A and C parenting and teaching styles. 

Guidelines for forming your own "Taking Charge" discussion group.

Taking Charge Ch 1 (parent/teacher audiobook)

Printable tools: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OB_JXyZkRzjgttRlfxFQjTAtN0e7T9zD/view?usp=sharing

Behavior you give emotional attention to will continue.

Positive, neutral, and negative behaviors.

How to express unconditional love. Giving nonverbal attention at neutral times.

Improving behavior by strengthening the child's staircase of needs.

Taking Charge ch2a (Paying Attention)

Printable tools: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OB_JXyZkRzjgttRlfxFQjTAtN0e7T9zD/view?usp=sharing

Listen to the first half of the chapter first! https://soundcloud.com/oddmanscout/taking-charge-ch2a?in=oddmanscout/sets/taking-charge-audiobook&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Taking Charge ch2b (exercise for Paying Attention)

Printable tools: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ceq79bFAyDkqKimExn0Y17B4jOjsvZDV/view?usp=sharing

The four self-sabotages: procrastination, talking and talking, forgetting to pay positive attention, and negative scripting. 

The hidden self sabotages: the unmet needs of the adult. 

Spanking. 
The role of anger.

Taking Charge ch3 (How Parents and Teachers Sabotage Their Discipline)

Printable Tools: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v7L6twG8rdldUcNmWKJze7We8vgCV7yy/view?usp=sharing

The four misbehaviors exercise.
Special case: Lying

Taking Charge ch4b Exercise and Lying

Printable Tools: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v7L6twG8rdldUcNmWKJze7We8vgCV7yy/view?usp=sharing

The four misbehaviors: Not-Minding, Self-Indulgent, Routine Not-Minding, and Aggressive. 
How the adult can help the child problem-solve by: Adjusting the environment, Teaching assertiveness and negotiating skills, and Listening to inner reality feelings.

Taking charge ch4a Negative behaviors how to tell the difference

I've always moved back and forth between melodic song and spoken-word. This album name comes from the rap band that I briefly formed with friends after college, which quickly fell apart, but I kept writing and occasionally making beats or finding friends to make them or sample from. 

I'm teaching now and haven't had time to write or record anything new, so thought it was finally time to put out my rough beginnings and see if inspiration returns....

The Eye is Open (Birth Pangs of the Beast)

Jazz Men (feat. Asa the Grey)

Money and Law (070708)

Bitty The Kid Is Killing It - 6 10 18, 4.09 PM

Loving Triumphed

Hustle (feat Tiny Brightest Emerald)

I'm a jack-of-all-trades, but master of none; hence my many unfinished songs and albums!

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