Book Review & Giveaway: Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood
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I've read lots of parenting books…similar effectually xv (and my kids are only iii and i…nearly)! Many of these books are great in theory, but seriously lacking in applied application.
Yes, I know it is of import to exist consistent and demand respect…merely what happens when my kid is screaming in the grocery store???
If you're looking for a volume that has practical tips for dealing with specific problems with toddlers to 6-year olds…look no further! Dear and Logic Magic for Early Childhood
Up until at present, I had never read a volume past Jim or Charles Fay, though I had heard nifty things nigh their books, seminars, and the Love and Logic Institute that was co-founded with Foster Cline.
What I Loved
- Choices: Beloved and Logic Magic for Early on Babyhood emphasizes giving children choices and recommends giving "control away when you don't demand it, so you can get it back when yous do!" Kids love making choices, and then the more we allow them to choose the "petty" things, the less command they will seek when we brand choices for them on the bigger issues. This has made such a huge difference in the number of tantrums thrown each twenty-four hours in our house. Hither are merely a few examples that have worked well for us since reading this book.
- Large Brother (almost three yrs) likes to cull his own clothing and throws a fit when he doesn't go to choose. I at present let him cull his clothing the bulk of the fourth dimension so that when I want him to wear something specific (to church or some other office) I can say, "You've chosen your clothes everyday this week, so now it is Mommy'southward plow to choose." This has worked surprisingly well and nosotros have avoided several battles!
- Big Brother also likes to choose his sippy cup. I typically would just grab one and and so fill it up…until a few months agone when this would serve as our very outset tantrum of the morning every day! The fact that I didn't first allowing him to choose and avoid the tantrums in the first identify obviously points to the lack of my brain fuction in the mornings.
- Validating your child's interests. This book recommends taking special notice of the things your child enjoys and saying things like "I noticed you really love that teddy bear" without maxim anything positive or negative (like "that's keen"). Showing that nosotros notice our children'southward interests without judging them equally expert or bad validates their individuality…fifty-fifty at a young age.
- Subject field without Frustration or Anger. This is something I am constantly working on. I tend to let misbehaviors proceed for also long and and then I just "snap" and unremarkably end up talking in a tone that no 1 in my household appreciates (including me). Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood recommends replacing threats and warnings with simple actions. If you tell your kid (once) to pick upward the toys and they don't do it…the toys get put away for a few days. When your kid starts to whine, treat them with empathy but do not give in. "Kids are meliorate prepared for real life when adults don't requite repeated warnings."
- Plow mistakes into learning opportunities. Let's face it…we all fail. Our children are going to neglect, at home and in the existent world. Now is the time to teach them to acquire from those failures…while the stakes are minor. "Every opportunity to ain and solve a problem enhances a kid's self-respect."
Things I Misunderstood
I was going to championship this section "Things I Disagreed With" but and then I decided they weren't necessarily things I disagreed with…they were only areas which I felt the book was not quite clear on. Commencement, I felt similar much of the book was showing parents how toavoid conflict…which is corking–I beloved avoiding disharmonize! Only sometimes I retrieve children need conflict to show them that nosotros are the authority in our homes. We, the parents, are in charge. They are loved and valued, just they need to learn to obey us (Ephesians 6:one). I felt like the book didn't necessarily give clear examples on when to exercise our authority and when to seemingly avoid confict (past letting our children make choices).
A few of the strategies were a piffling too fluffy for my personality (imagine that) and I can't imagine myself using the "uh-oh" song or the "energy drain" without groovy upwardly laughing. There was also a strategy for when your kid whines that encourages them by saying "that's the best you can do???" It'due south supposed to piece of work the reverse way and cease the whining, but I think telling our children to do something with the expectation that they do the opposite is never a skillful habit to commencement.
Bottom Line
This is the MOST practical parenting book for immature children that I have e'er read! Both Prince Charming and I agree that information technology is a wonderful resources for all parents. I am very glad that we both read it considering it has given us actual strategies (rather than theories) that we have applied immediately. It has greatly reduced the number of tantrums thrown in our house!
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