Parenting With Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility

or break bad habits. Others, in their zeal to help youngsters improve schoolwork, for example, exe ...

uptight if our children don’t always listen to us, but tremble in fear that they see what we do. LOVE AND ...

“But what about quality control?” you may be asking. “When do we start worrying about the end results? W ...

Leg Three: I Am Capable of Taking Control of My Life Children with a strong third leg on the three-legged ...

the family got into the car. Two blocks from home, muffled sounds came drifting from the backseat — the un ...

those mistakes, provided parents don’t get too involved. The Difference Between Praise and Encouragement Every pare ...

The evaluator is in a position to judge the “goodness” of the action or production. When either of these ...

ADULT: “Really! How’d that happen?” CHILD: “I have trouble with noses.” ADULT: “So how will all this tur ...

as capable human beings comes from accomplishing difficult things, not having those things done for them ...

The final steps of forming a positive self-concept as our kids grow is an inside job — it is something ...

shoes or wearing Dad’s hat. If Mom’s at the sink doing dishes, there they are too, splashing around and ...

in the process, “I feel good now that the day’s work is finished, but I’ll feel better when I cl ...

back to us. For many unhappy parents and their entitled, demanding children, life becomes a one-way street. The ...

4 Children’s Mistakes Are Their Opportunities How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is ...

and Sara sat up at night worrying about Austin. “He might go through his childhood years with very few ...

we shouldn’t be: in the middle of their problems. Parents who take on their kids’ problems do them a g ...

on the fuel gauge. However, when he married Shirley, she discovered this habit and, fearful that he wou ...

losing life or limb or of making a decision that could affect them for a lifetime. • We step in ...

rude gestures or behavior), how they do chores, playing loud music, waking us up in the middle ...

Mom scoops Jasmine up lovingly and walks her to her room going through all six steps of using the “Uh-Oh” song: S ...