Week Four

Parenting With Love And Logic Teaching Children Responsibility By Foster Cline, M.D. & Jim Fay

Monday 6:00am-6:30am
Wednesday 6:00am-6:30am
Friday 2:00pm-2:45pm

With this weeks reading I finished up Part I The Love-and-Logic Parent and started on Part II Love-and-Logic Parenting Pearls. This part of the book has forty-one love-and-logic pearls. It offers advice for handling some of the common disciplinary problems that parents will deal with during their child's first twelve years. This book says that it usually takes one month of love-and-logic parenting to undo one year of tacky parenting. It is a good thing that my girls are only 3 and 5 years old!
The first three Pearls that I got through reading this week was Pearl I - Allowances/Money. There were four rules to follow here: Rule 1 was that children do not earn their allowances. Only pay them for chores when they do our chores if we don't want to do them. Rule 2 is provide the allowance at the same time each week. Rule 3 is never insist that children save the allowance. They can't learn to handle money if they stash it. Rule 4 is as long as they are not engaged in illegal activity, allow children to spend, save, or wast the money any way they see fit.
Pearl 2 is Anger: When It's Appropriate. When our kids do something that affects us directly then it's okay to get angry.
Pearl 3 is Bedtime. We cannot make children go to sleep. God has determined how much sleep kids need and it varies from child to child.

I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness. When you walk, your step will not hampered; and if you run, you will not stumble. Proverbs 4:11-12