Parenting With Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility

game and not just because I wanted him to play. Again, I just let him talk, but my emotions had changed fro ...

PEARL 38 Stealing Of all the problems that surface with our kids, nothing affects our ...

Now take it back to the box. Thank you. Oh, thank you for putting it back! That makes Mommy so happy. ...

PEARL 39 Swearing and Bad Language It hits us like an ice-water Jacuzzi. That innocent little foundlin ...

boring old swear words and use them. Nobody has to look them up in the dictionary. They’re really easy word ...

PEARL 40 Teacher and School Problems Generally, our role in our children’s school life — in their grades ...

who’s upset with this. A lot of others are too. But I’m the only one with the nerve to come talk ...

PEARL 41 Teeth Brushing Kids, like the rest of us, love second chances. Those awful mistakes they ma ...

feel a whole lot better.” Kids can thus follow what we say as well as how we feel after we’ve ...

PEARL 42 Telephone Interruptions Young children just don’t understand telephone etiquette. Why, they are ...

Plus, it’s a lot more pleasant for them not having a human air-raid siren howling in the background. Th ...

said, “I’m sorry, Dawn. We have a little situation here.” Calmly putting down the phone, she used the ...

PEARL 43 Television Watching Every new media-use study brings on another bout of parental anxiety. The headli ...

“ADHD” children have no problem at all attending to a clown, a magic act, videotapes, or games. Their pr ...

much television will turn their brains to oat bran. Foster once reminisced, for the benefit o ...

PEARL 44 Temper Tantrums The good news is there’s usually a little warning: the big ear-to-ear frown, the f ...

Wise parents simply let tantrums happen. There’s nothing we can do to stop them anyway. What we can do, howev ...

PEARL 45 Toilet Training Brace yourselves for this one, folks: Toilet training is fun! “What?” you shriek. ...

What works for one, won’t work for the other. Keri draws pictures for her little daughter Bethany whil ...

PEARL 46 Values: Passing Them On to Your Kids Every day it seems there’s another story of the decline in values ...