Enforceable Statements Turn Your Words from Garbage to Gold
Instead of M&M’s, Kids Need More N&Ns – AKA: My Kid Hates When I Say “No”
One day when I took my young son to Burger King, he wanted something he couldn’t have and I said no. It didn’t work out well for either of us. What he wanted was “white pop” (known to older kids as Sprite). I was OK with that. I held the cup to the Sprite label […]
Airplane Travel with Toddlers: Nine Out-of-the-Box Strategies
Before I had kids, vacation started the moment I sat down on the airplane. That all changed when I started traveling with toddlers. And how! When traveling with toddlers, boarding a flight signals the beginning of the biggest challenge of the trip: trying to confine little people with the need for speed into one small space […]
Rowdy at Dinner
I frequently receive letters and emails from my readers sharing their successes and failures as parents. While I prefer reading the success stories, I also find value in parenting failures because it gives me an opportunity to reach out and offer advice on a topic that I’m passionate about, Love and Logic® parenting. I look […]
Happy Starts to Preschool
Dear Kerry,I’m a stay at home mom of twin boys and I knew that starting preschool would be difficult for them to deal with. New places, new faces, a new routine and the absence of mom would be a lot for them to digest so; I decided that instead of dreading this wonderful event in […]
Getting Kids to School On Time
DAD’S DILEMMA After a busy morning of diapering, feeding, bathing and dressing his 7 and 3-year olds and tending to the needs of the baby (with a few temper tantrums thrown in here and there), dad was hoping for a little help from his toddler and oldest son. Little did he know that they had […]
My 1.5 Year Old Hates the Car Seat
My 1.5 year old son didn’t want to get in his car seat. He wasn’t responding to the choices I was giving him and instead was fighting me. I finally got him buckled in and wondered what Love and Logic skills I could use for a consequence for his sad decision. He is too young […]
Success Story! Love and Logic Works with 3 Year Olds
This mom shares her success story using the brain dead statement “I know” over and over again….. My 3 year old didn’t want any of the two choices I gave him for breakfast, so I picked one for him. He was not happy and kept throwing a fit. I empathetically used “I know” about six or […]
Does That Mean “NO”?
Here is a story of a mom in my class who learned a new skill to not engage in a battle with kids when they’re protesting a limit. That skill is called going “brain dead.” This works with kids of all ages. See what happens when she uses it to neutralize the “buy it for […]
Temper Tantrums Aren’t Just for 2 Year Olds
This year has brought a new experience for John and I …temper tantrums. That moment when Hailey clenches her fists, shakes uncontrollably, and squeals like a pig…randomly throughout our day. Tantrums could be triggered over a number of different things in her “high-stress” day. As adults, we talk about temper tantrums like they are a […]