Parenting With Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility

8 Lights, Camera, Parenting! I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness. Whe ...

Practice, Practice, Practice Love and Logic ideas may seem overwhelming. There’s much to remembe ...

you’ll know it’s working. But hold firm. If they can control you by pushing your anger, ...

and Logic attitudes, tools, and techniques can be misapplied or misunderstood. We would like to help ...

True empathetic statements are not generated from the head but from the heart! Every so often we have hea ...

limits that follow a few key guidelines: The child is expected to willingly pick one of the choices, not ...

good care of themselves, even if it means that their demanding and rebellious offspring may suffer ...

argue” statement. Foster talked with a Montana mother, and she told him about a neat little kid who seemed ...

last a lifetime — long past the end of their adolescent years. And it is never too late to work o ...

Part 2 Love and Logic Parenting Tools ...

How to Use Love and Logic Pearls Knowing some basic concepts on parenting is a good beginning; they offe ...

PEARL 1 Allowances/Money There comes a time in the life of every child when financial responsibility ...

and then not having any when they need it — to learn about money. In general, people best learn t ...

nothing moves out of our pockets. Observe how this dad handles daughter Jenna’s midweek crisis: JENNA: “Dad, I nee ...

PEARL 2 Anger: When It’s Appropriate As a general rule, the decision on whether or not to use anger in ...

problem solving? Or do I think this child needs a sixty-second rant and a hug afterward, with me sa ...

PEARL 3 Bedtime “Time for bed, sweetie.” You say it every night. And every night you have to jump through ...

So give it up. Ask your children if they’d rather have their door open or closed, their room light ...

we consequence, not the number of hours he sleeps. Don’t think, Now he’s obnoxious; therefore, I’ve got to ...

PEARL 4 Bossiness Is it any wonder that bossy parents often have bossy kids? Parents who order their c ...