Parenting With Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility

the family. The parent should not, and need not, talk with the child about the problem. If there is cle ...

Love and Logic has to offer you. Because of this, it is worth taking some time here to explore them ...

it to be shut and locked? Then I will see you when you are sweet again.” Now, we don’t advocate loc ...

not outlandish. Make sure that you are willing to enforce whatever choices you give. It won’t take too many ...

A parent can do a beautiful job of setting firm limits with an enforceable statement, showing empathy ...

how to respond. Perhaps you could return to this book or check our Love and Logic website at www.loveandlogi ...

when she got off the bus. She missed the afternoon throw-and- retrieve game. When she ...

We sometimes worry that this approach sounds too tough, taking the pet out of the home with the possibili ...

for listening if Josh wants to talk about it. Or if she is so troubled she feels she must express her ...

5 Setting Limits Through Thinking Words Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings h ...

Parenting with Love and Logic involves setting strong limits and boundaries in toddlerhood. Not only do ...

want them to be so good at thinking, that they can face the bigger problems and the daily ...

walking slot machine. The boy ate coins — pennies, nickels, dimes, not many quarters, and no half doll ...

“That’s right. They mind me, but Catherine’s around them all the time.” Wow! Do you think Catherine would a ...

For many parents, setting limits means issuing commands and backing up those limits with more commands s ...

FIGHTING WORDS: “Be nice to each other. Quit fighting.” THINKING WORDS: “You guys are welcome to come ...

• “Because I said put your boots on, that’s why! It’s snowing outside.” • “I’m trying ...

consequences, but the results were dramatically different! One of the girls saw her parents as bei ...

his little lungs are. Or they could say, “Lukas, would you like to eat nicely in the chair, or would y ...

in a way that will hurt their parents — so subtly that the parents don’t know they’re being hurt. Th ...