Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility

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NavPress, Sep 8, 2020 - Religion - 272 pages
A time-tested parenting book with over 900,000 copies sold!
Now updated to address technology use, screen time, and social media.


Designed for preschool and beyond, this helpful and practical psychology-based parenting method is an invaluable guide for all parents! Teach your children healthy responsibility and encourage their character growth from a young age. Learn to establish healthy boundaries with your children through easy-to-implement steps without anger, threats, nagging, or power struggles.

Trusted by generations of parents, counselors, and teachers to lovingly raise responsible children, Parenting with Love and Logic includes solutions for dozens of specific topics such as:
  • Tantrums
  • Managing screen time
  • Grades and report cards
  • Chores
  • Getting ready for school
  • Peer pressure
  • Cyberbullying
  • Navigating crisis situations and grief
  • And much more!
Each issue is indexed for easy reference. Learn how to tame tempers and re-establish a calm, healthy relationship and positive communication with your child today!

“This is as close to an owner’s manual for parents as you will find. Now, parents can embrace mistakes as wonderful learning opportunities to raise respectful, responsible, and caring children.” —Gloria Sherman, MA, MED, LPC, cofounder, Parenting Partnership

“I have been delighted to share the powerful yet simple wisdom of Jim Fay and Foster Cline with my counseling clients. The principles in Parenting with Love and Logic are practical, proven techniques that keep parents on track to raising responsible, loving, confident children.” —Carol R. Cole, PhD, LMFT

Parenting with Love and Logic is a terrific book for parents that provides important concepts and practical solutions to help children become emotionally, socially, and morally healthy.” —Terry M. Levy, PhD, codirector of Evergreen Psychotherapy Center; coauthor of Attachment, Trauma, and Healing

Parenting with Love and Logic is an essential component for our schools, parents, and teachers. Thousands of families have been positively impacted by the love and logic principles.” —Leonard R. Rezmierski, PhD, superintendent support administrator, Wayne RESA
 

Contents

Introduction
1
The Love and Logic Parent
3
Parenting Joy or Nightmare?
5
Mission Possible Raising Responsible Kids
9
Responsible Children Feel Good about Themselves
23
Childrens Mistakes Are Their Opportunities
39
Setting Limits through Thinking Words
53
Gaining Control through Choices
67
Grandparents
175
Homework
178
Im Bored Routine
180
Lying and Dishonesty
182
Nasty Looks and Negative Body Language
184
Pacifiers
186
Peer Pressure
188
Pet Care
191

The Recipe for Success Empathy with Consequences
85
Lights Camera Parenting
97
Love and Logic Parenting Tools
105
How to Use Love and Logic Pearls
106
AllowancesMoney
107
Anger When Its Appropriate
110
Bedtime
112
Bossiness
115
Bullying and Cyberbullying
117
Car Wars BackSeat Battles
121
Chores
125
Church When Kids Dont Want to Go
128
Creativity
130
Crisis Situations
133
Discipline 101
135
Discipline in Public
139
Divorce and Visitation
141
Eating and Table Manners
149
Entitlement
152
Fears and Monsters
156
Fighting
158
Friends
161
Getting Ready for School
163
Giving Gifts
167
Grades Underachievement and Report Cards
170
Picking Up Belongings
193
Professional Help When to Seek It
196
The Room Keeping It Clean
197
The Room Keeping the Kid in It
199
Sassing and Disrespect
202
Spanking
204
Sports
206
Stealing
210
Swearing and Bad Language
212
Teacher and School Problems
214
Technology The Internet Phones Pornography Television and Videos and Video Games
216
Teeth Brushing
234
Telephone Interruptions
236
Temper Tantrums
238
Toilet Training
240
Values Passing Them On to Your Kids
242
Whining and Complaining
245
The Three Types of Parents
247
Turn Your Word into Gold
248
Notes
250
Index
251
Authors
259
Love and Logic Materials and Seminars
260
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