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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
Good, applicable information on what your children really need. It helped me define their love languages and gave me a different, and better, approach to discipline and loving on them. Even though the repeated concept of the "emotional love tank" was there ad nauseum, it helped give a visual to something that I figured my children already had. "Of course they know I love them because I feed them, hug them, etc." Not exactly.
This was insightful to look at my children this way and figure out what each of their "love languages" is to know how best to show love to them.
This was an interesting choice for my school parent bookclub, but it turned out we all loved it! It doesn't matter where you are in the world, parents want to know how to love their children. Many good and humorous discussions about our own kids came up in our conversations. I highly encourage parents to read this one. I'm working on discovering how my children need love, and I am better for it.
challenging
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
I went to a seminar once with my sister about the Five Love Languages. After that, I wanted to read the book in more detail. I am excited to learn what my kids primary love language is so I can love her the best way, for her.
3.5? I feel like this is a good thing to keep in mind, but I doubt it will be a magical and obvious answer to things like it seems in the book.
Some solid advice that I hadn’t thought to apply to children but it does make sense.
The Christian undertones of the book were annoying. I would have liked more guidance on how to figure out my kids LL as well.
The Christian undertones of the book were annoying. I would have liked more guidance on how to figure out my kids LL as well.
fast-paced
I was pretty familiar with the concept of the five love languages prior to reading. I honestly have no idea where I even got this book from, but I was looking for a short read and found this on my shelf.
The authors do a good job of explaining the love languages and giving examples of how to show love. However, I was NOT aware that this was a part of a Christian book series. I found myself rolling my eyes a lot. Both authors listed on the cover have doctoral degrees, so I expected there to be a lot of scientific data within the text, but they frequently mentioned and cited Bible verses instead. Because of this, after reading, I decided to look up the authors... Chapman received his PhD from a Theological Seminary and Campbell received his MD in psychiatry. Regardless, I was expecting more.
The information within the 5 love language chapters does provide some useful details for parents who may not understand the concept, or those that lack the ability to connect with specific needs. Even so, some parts of those 5 chapters were kind of boring and/or cringe worthy.
The concluding chapters felt disconnected from the love language theme and I had to skim them to get through. That all being said, what I enjoyed most was that the authors continuously expressed the importance of a parent's unconditional love for their children and outlined what that means.
It was a quick read, and only took me about 3-4 hours to get through.
The authors do a good job of explaining the love languages and giving examples of how to show love. However, I was NOT aware that this was a part of a Christian book series. I found myself rolling my eyes a lot. Both authors listed on the cover have doctoral degrees, so I expected there to be a lot of scientific data within the text, but they frequently mentioned and cited Bible verses instead. Because of this, after reading, I decided to look up the authors... Chapman received his PhD from a Theological Seminary and Campbell received his MD in psychiatry. Regardless, I was expecting more.
The information within the 5 love language chapters does provide some useful details for parents who may not understand the concept, or those that lack the ability to connect with specific needs. Even so, some parts of those 5 chapters were kind of boring and/or cringe worthy.
The concluding chapters felt disconnected from the love language theme and I had to skim them to get through. That all being said, what I enjoyed most was that the authors continuously expressed the importance of a parent's unconditional love for their children and outlined what that means.
It was a quick read, and only took me about 3-4 hours to get through.
Delves deeper into applying the concept to kids. Very helpful!
I like the theory of the 5 love languages and appreciate some of the examples for applying them to your children, but I found this book to have outdated and toxic ideas about family and gender roles. Would love a version of the ideas that was more inclusive and applicable to everyone.