Parenting With Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility

delaying the consequence is for the parent, not the child. It gives the parent time to think and plan. Here’s ho ...

ERIC: “Well, do you think he needs practice, honey?” BLAKE: “I don’t need practice. I know how to do ...

PEARL 12 Discipline in Public Kids are born smart. Even before they can speak intelligibly, they know w ...

One technique for breaking this bad habit is called “Strategic Training Session.” It is somewhat involved ...

PEARL 13 Divorce and Visitation When parents divorce, the casualty list includes more than the husband an ...

Parents need to tell their children, without details, how they feel about the ex-spouse and why. It is ...

Foster remembers a time in therapy when the child said, “I always wanted to call Susan “Mom” but I w ...

but frankly, most of it isn’t over you. We’d be getting a divorce even if we’d never had children. ...

She doesn’t feel that she has any limits at all, and I can see why. Every time she misbehaves, you’re there ...

Based upon this false idea, Jen imposes consequences that must be upheld when her daughter is at D ...

I need to apologize to you. I’m doing it in writing just in case you want to revisit my thoughts in ...

and hurt toward Dan. She felt a twinge of desire to tell Nicole how irresponsible she believes Dan ...

PEARL 14 Eating and Table Manners Rachel, a loving mom, has spent the better part of her afternoon stoop ...

through modeling and choices. Using thinking words instead of fighting words is helpful. Instead of saying, ...

can’t change the behavior, change the location. Even with the youngest of children, we can nip tacky table ...

PEARL 15 Entitlement COUNSELOR: “So, Danielle, what’s happening in your life that brings you into counseli ...

Danielle’s parents tore up their parent license early in her life. By treating her like an honored guest i ...

LOW: Low ambition. HIGH: High resentment of those who require them to achieve through study and effort. LOW: ...

Develop skills for setting and enforcing limits and boundaries. Surround themselves with like-thinking friends so ...

PEARL 16 Fears and Monsters Sometimes they’re under the bed. Sometimes just outside the window. Sometimes they ...