Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility

by Foster W. Cline, Jim Fay

Over 900,000 copies sold!
This parenting book shows you how to raise self-confident, motivated children who are ready for the real world. Learn how to parent effectively while teaching your children responsibility and growing their character. Establish healthy control 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. Includes solutions for dozens of specific topics like tantrums, managing screen time, and getting ready for school, all indexed for easy reference.

Updated with parenting wisdom for today's world, including new material on cyber-bullying and technology.

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction

272 pages, Hardcover

Published March 3, 2020

Reviews

[Kaylen · Rating 5 out of 5]

A book I will constantly refer to and reread as my kids grow. Every time I open this book, I walk away feeling confident as a parent and more patient with my kids. Challenging but so helpful.

[Damien A. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book that will help those seeking positive parenting

[Armin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super valuable resource for parents that want to stop yelling at and battling with their kids, but love their kids and still want to teach responsibly. I loved most that it puts the learning in the kids lap and takes the mikromanagement out of parenting. It can be a bit scary but in the end is elating. I was taken aback a bit at first that this is a Christian book, but the authors use a few biblical quotes and else let practical experience and science speak.

[Ivana · Rating 1 out of 5]

I would expect some new science incorporated. Read a Whole Brain Child and/or No Drama Discipline there is more love and logic in their parenting suggestions. This book did not meet my expectations.

[Jacklyn (ReadingBliss) · Rating 5 out of 5]

While I can see how some parents may perceive the proposed methods of this book harsh or extreme, I really lean toward one of the author’s fundamental points: teach the children hard lessons while the stakes are low. Children who do not learn self regulation and healthy boundaries become adults who end up struggling a lot more than is necessary because they can’t discern or are not motivated to make good choices.

I found this book to be encouraging and applicable in many ways, but will let my children’s need lead the way in what I utilize. Some children need less correcting and thus don’t require such strong methods while others are knuckleheads who insist on learning the hard way. For the latter, should I encounter that in my parenting journey, I think some of what this philosophy preaches can save my family a lot of headache and heartache and division between the parent-child dynamic. In my opinion, raising a child to become a self-sufficient adult that not only you, but the community, can be proud of, is no small feat in this world.

Mother of two, currently 8 and 3 years old, would recommend this book if the parent had some challenging circumstances, wasn’t faint of heart, or shared similar parenting styles with the author.

[Erika · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars rounded up. A worthwhile read to gain language and tools to encourage personal responsibility in kids. Some of the suggested applications during the toddler years don’t seem entirely developmentally appropriate. Overall a helpful resource for school-aged kids.

It’s written from a loosely Christian perspective, but isn’t overwhelmingly saturated with scripture. I appreciate the note the authors make in the latest edition to cite modern research and speak out against spanking which is so often promoted as THE discipline tool in Christian circles.

[Kaitlin Robbins · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is like the Ruby Frankie play book. Some of the suggestions for teaching responsibility include if your child spends all their lunch money you don’t let them pack their lunch unless they pay you for the groceries? And if your child is USING DRUGS they suggest you say “honey you have a big problem” and “then go on and do whatever they (the parent) needs to do to take care of themselves” What. The. F?

[Stephanie Webster · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love love love with logic. One of the best I've read . A litteral how to with completed real life examples. This book helped me gain the confidence to love my children better than I was taught. It helped me understand how they think differently and how to reach them when they do. Loved lived loved this book

[Ali Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Keeping it short - a lot of the book seemed unrealistic. I definitely took away some nuggets, but found a lot of the examples not worth reading