Week Two

Parenting With Love And Logic By Foster Cline, M.D. and Jim Fay

Monday Oct 10th  10:00am-10:45am
Tuesday Oct 11th  7:30pm-7:50pm
Friday    Oct 14th   4:00pm-4:45pm

Oh my goodness, this book is full of some much to take in. I am really enjoying what I am learning. Not only will it help me with my own daughters but it will also help with how I handle my students. I am learning that children's mistakes are their opportunities. The best solution to any problem lives within the skin of the person who owns the problem. As parents we can not let our children's problems become our problems. Our children need to know that with God's help they can always look first to themselves for the answers to their problems. We need to be setting limits through thinking words instead of fighting words. It has been proven that kids that are thinking cannot fight us at the same time. An example is when a child says something loud and unkind to the parents and fighting words might be "Don't talk to me in that tone of voice!" Thinking words would be "You sound upset. I'll be glad to listen when your voice is as soft as mine is." This is something that my husband and I both need to work on. I know that it is going to take time for us to get us to talking in questions and in thinking words instead of fighting words but we'll get it.