Parenting With Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility

Before looking at techniques to avert this tension, we should remember that the model we set with ...

Rule Three: Let the grandparents know why we are with them. Is it because of a sense of guilt or obliga ...

PEARL 23 Homework Our kids’ homework is their problem. It’s their pencils that have to move, their ...

or by thinking about your homework. Which do you want to do tonight?” IAN: “I’ll just think about ...

PEARL 24 “I’m Bored” Routine It’s three hours after the dawn of Christmas morning, and calm has ...

PARENT: “Well, are there things that you like anywhere else in the house?” CHILD: “I don’t think so.” PAR ...

PEARL 25 The Internet Parents are concerned about the Internet, which, like an apple barrel, is filled with ...

• Unfiltered machines are available somewhere, someplace to all children who seek them out. • ...

and the choices that follow: PARENT: “Derek, what’s your take on filtering some of the Internet content on you ...

MOM: “Sites like the prom site would be the perfect place for a sexual predator to troll around for hi ...

encourage this type of learning early on. ...

PEARL 26 Lying and Dishonesty Most children, from kindergarten through about the second grade, go through a ...

don’t believe you, then it’s doubly sad for you.” First, the child is telling a lie, and second, he or ...

do the teaching, not some unrelated punishment we might impose. ...

PEARL 27 Nasty Looks and Negative Body Language “Every time I ask Kate to do something, or even som ...

way. When emotions have cooled and both we and our children are reasonably happy, we can att ...

When we consider the range of options open to our kids when they’re unhappy with us — everything from ...

PEARL 28 Pacifiers In our lives, we have seen many ideas come and go: constant cigarette smoking in pu ...

Once a child gets used to a pacifier, it becomes almost an addiction. The child wants that pacifier ...

PEARL 29 Peer Pressure The battle over peer pressure begins when our children are two or three years o ...