Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility

by Foster W. Cline

Most mistakes do have logical consequences.

step back a bit from being the enforcer of limits and let reasonable, real-world consequences do the teaching.

Failure and success are two sides of the same coin.

He loved them enough to let them make a decision and live with the results.

love, protection, and caring. These concepts are not synonymous.

Parents who routinely focus on the end result rather than on the learning taking place wind up with kids who have a negative self-concept about their skills. Then parents wonder why their kids never want to help around the house.

It comes from working hard and accomplishing good things. No amount of stuff or praise can build a resilient self-image for children.

How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. Proverbs 16:16

the best solution to any problem lies within the skin of the person who owns the problem.

When a child causes a problem, the adult shows empathy through sadness and sorrow and then lovingly hands the problem and its consequences back to the child.