Parenting Teens with Love And Logic - Foster Cline MD
JoannaK:
Parenting Teens with Love And Logic
Author: Foster Cline, MD and Jim Fay
Publisher: NavPress Publishing (April 19, 2006)
Paperback: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1576839303
ISBN-13: 978-1576839300
Book Description
Navigating the parent-teen relationship is difficult. Teens need their parents to teach and guide them to make responsible decisions. Mood swings, arguments, and the pressures of school and peers can strain relationships even further. Parenting Teens with Love and Logic covers a broad scope of real-life issues including divorce, ADD, addictions, sex, peer pressure, school and street violence, and breaking the law. In facing these tough subjects, the book offers parents distinct ideas to help them set limits, teach important skills, and foster maturity in their teenagers.
Chapters:
1. Teenagers 101: Welcome to Parenting Graduate School
2. Love and Logic Parenting: Will It Work with Teenagers?
3. Back to the Basics, Part One: Training Teens to Act Responsibly
4. Back to the Basics, Part Two: Treating Teenagers as Responsible Adults
5. Fasten Your Seat Belt and Enjoy the Ride
6. Understanding Teens from the Inside Out: Internal Changes in Adolescence
7. Understanding Teens from the Outside In: External Changes in Adolescence
8. Ready, Set—Off into the Real World
9. How to Use Love and Logic Pearls
About the Authors
Foster Cline, M.D. is an world renowned psychiatrist, consultant to mental health organizations, parents groups, and schools across North America. Dr. Cline graduated cum laude from the University of Colorado and earned his MD degree from the University of Colorado Medical School in Denver. He spent his medical internship in the Gorgas Hospital, a federal hospital in the Panama Canal Zone. He completed his adult and child psychiatric residencies at the University of Washington in Seattle. Cline also is a grandparent, as well as the father of three biological children, one adopted child, and several foster children.
Jim Fay brings with him over thirty years of experience as an educator, school principal, and father of three grown children. Recognized as one of America's top educational consultants, he has won many awards in the educational field.
united for now:
I personally like the "Love and Logic" stuff. Multiple books targeting various age ranges and specific situations, seminars all over the country, different authors, a cute "story teller" way of delivering their message, and it relies a lot on consequences and promotes responsibility while helping the parent understand how their trying to be nice backfires on them.
They have many books, CD's and videos, giving parents a wide choice... .
I have a few of their books, tapes, and I have seen 2 of their seminars for teachers *))
www.loveandlogic.com/
phew:
My mom did not parent with logic. Her discipline was scary, full of rage.
I want my daughter to be loved by a logical parent. There is also a version for parenting a teen. It is like having a mentor that can guide you through.
We can raise healthy, well adjusted children. I know that we can or we would not even be asking each other to dialog on this topic.
Erika:
My therapist recommended this (she has a son with adhd and it really helped her).
Erika
Sodonealready:
I'm a bhr spec ed teacher as well as a mum (7,4,1) and thus seen just about every parenting resource out there and I LOVE is Love and Logic.
You might have seen it on PBS?
Anyhow, the whole approach is based on the idea that mistakes are cheapest to make when kids are young and encourages parents to allow kids to make mistakes and let natural consequences teach the lessons. Respect and empathy are maintained as life, not a mad mummy or daddy teach the lessons.
My favorite line "We're all born with a certain number of temper tantrums in us -- let's hope our kids get most of them out of their system before they're out of our house." That so made me think about my mother who tantrums in her 60s more than most preschoolers.
I have done a bit of PR for this approach in our local papers... .
Sodone
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