Parenting With Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility

For hundreds of years, rookie parents learned the fine points of child rearing by example: They took the techniques their parents had used on them and applied them to their own children. Today this approach is more apt to bomb than boom.

That’s where Parenting with Love and Logic comes in. Why the terms love and logic? Effective parenting centers around love: love that is not permissive, love that doesn’t tolerate disrespect, but also love that is powerful enough to allow kids to make mistakes and permit them to live with the consequences of those mistakes. Most mistakes do have logical consequences. And those consequences, when accompanied by empathy — our compassionate understanding of the child’s disappointment, frustration, and pain — hit home with mind-changing power.

Title: Parenting With Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility

Authors Foster Cline, MD and Jim Fay

Years of publication: 1990, 2006

Publisher: NavPress

ISBN: 13: 978-1-57683-954-6