Parenting With Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility

MOM: “Alicia, I notice that you’re kind of bossy with those other kids. Do you ever worry that ...

PEARL 5 Bullies Since the first one-room schoolhouse, there have been children who bully others, bu ...

of modifying what goes on outside the skin, the parent helps the child grow and cope from what is ha ...

PEARL 6 Car Wars: Backseat Battles It starts benignly. Cameron trespasses into Molly’s “space” i ...

backseat bickering, and if it continues, something is going to happen.” Consider the following for kids who ...

couple of kids out of the car. I’ve always been afraid of doing this before because the kids migh ...

thoughtful risks to teach children important lessons. Years ago, children were generally well manner ...

PEARL 7 Chores Nothing warms the heart like the sight of our children industriously flitting about the ho ...

the idea across that work is fun. Wise parents will say things like, • “I sure like gettin ...

problems between them when they’re given some control. A bigger problem is getting the chores done on you ...

PEARL 8 Church: When Kids Don’t Want to Go Responsible parents want to bring their children up with ...

At some point, however, our kids may dig in their heels and make a stand. It is often valuable to at ...

PEARL 9 Creativity Acreative child is a fun-to-be-around child. Children’s creativity fills us with a stran ...

narthex, not bothering anybody, and then one of his parents discourages him by saying, “Come here,” when the ...

sorts of mechanical stuff to take apart; clothes for dress-up; and old jewelry boxes to store and collect impo ...

PEARL 10 Crisis Situations Drug use. Kids who run away from home. Teenage pregnancy. Debilitati ...

true, but it’s not necessarily a crisis. We have time to take care of it properly. (Of course, if recent ...

pray, breathe deeply, relax, write down all possible options and talk them over with a person we resp ...

PEARL 11 Discipline 101 The key to effective discipline is to control only what we can control. We can neve ...

tolerance, and by the time we say “Adios” to our child, we may be angry rather than effective. Third, we may co ...