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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
Some good information on expressing love to children. I especially liked the sections on love and discipline, anger and learning.
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
This is an amazing book. It is very simple and uncomplicated, yet it touches important topics and makes points that totally make sense.
Keep the emotional tank of your child full, by speaking his/her love language. That way your child will feel your love. That way your child will cheer up, stop being as stubborn and will start liking you more. You will start liking yourself more because you’ll feel like- finally- you are doing a descent job at being a parent and loving your child.
It’s not a cure-it-all thing and not a recipe for eternal success in parental realm.
But it is a very handy book to have.
By the way, 5 love languages are:
Physical touch
Words of affirmation
Quality time
Gifts
Acts of service
Figure out what language does your child “speak”. It will make your life easier and the life of your child happier.
Ps: use all 5 languages, but 1 language specially often.
All the how-to’s are in the book.
Hope you enjoy it.
Keep the emotional tank of your child full, by speaking his/her love language. That way your child will feel your love. That way your child will cheer up, stop being as stubborn and will start liking you more. You will start liking yourself more because you’ll feel like- finally- you are doing a descent job at being a parent and loving your child.
It’s not a cure-it-all thing and not a recipe for eternal success in parental realm.
But it is a very handy book to have.
By the way, 5 love languages are:
Physical touch
Words of affirmation
Quality time
Gifts
Acts of service
Figure out what language does your child “speak”. It will make your life easier and the life of your child happier.
Ps: use all 5 languages, but 1 language specially often.
All the how-to’s are in the book.
Hope you enjoy it.
How to fill your child's love tank
-physical touch
-words of affirmation
-quality time
-gifts
-acts of service
plus chapters on discipline, learning, anger management. Would like to read this again later since children don't develop their primary love language until age 5 or later.
-physical touch
-words of affirmation
-quality time
-gifts
-acts of service
plus chapters on discipline, learning, anger management. Would like to read this again later since children don't develop their primary love language until age 5 or later.
The original 5 Love Languages Book has been helpful to my husband and me over the years, so I wanted to check out this book specifically written for children. I appreciate that it was co-authored by a pediatric psychiatrist. Like the original book it includes stories from people's lives showing how the love languages show themselves in real life. It also includes specific suggestions of things you can do to show love to your children in their love languages. I will return to this book once my toddlers are older as it is too early to really determine their preferred love languages.
I received an ARC from NetGalley.
I received an ARC from NetGalley.
Wise words to help us learn to love others, especially our children, in the way they need!
Plenty of good real-life examples included.
Plenty of good real-life examples included.
First half of the book was great, the second half was really boring and somewhat redundant.
The Five Love Languages of Children was recommended to me by one of the nurses taking care of me during my second pregnancy. My first born was acting out in the worst ways, and despite my best efforts, I just couldn't get through to her. I would smother her with the love and attention that she was so obviously crying out for, and yet at the end of the day she would still be hysterical, claiming nobody loves her. I was at a complete loss, and couldn't figure out where I was going wrong. After reading this book everything made SO MUCH more sense to me. I was showing her love in my own love language, which is different from hers, and thus she was not perceiving my actions as loving. This book changed our entire family dynamic, and has had a lasting impact on my other relationships as well. While the title specifically mentions children, the concept of different love languages applies to everyone. I haven't read The Five Love Languages (the regular plain old adult version), but I don't feel that I need to. I can't imagine it would be much different in theory from this one. Read this book (or the other one) if you desire the ability to understand your loved ones a little better, and learn new ways to show them how much you care.
I am really torn over what I thought of this book. While I like the concepts and I think it had valuable information I had a hard time with it. For some reason I couldn't get into the writing style. I constantly found my mind wandering and having to go back and re-read portions. The last several parenting books that I have read have been very readable so I found this hard to reconcile.
For the most part I felt like the "love languages" were well explained but in the later chapters when examples are given of putting it into action the authors would say things like: speak their love language and then introduce the discipline and then speak their love language to end the conversation. The problem I have with this is what if their love language is "gifts" or "acts of service"? You give them a gift discipline them and then give them another gift? Sew a button on their shirt discipline them and then help them clean their room? It didn't make sense to me.
My other big hang up was that the book began by saying that it's hard to determine the love language of children 5 and under. My oldest is 5. I didn't feel like this book applied to my family. Most of the examples sounded like conversations with teenagers, and yet their is another book titled "The Five Love Languages of Teenagers". I feel like I would have gotten more out of reading the book about couples and then applying some of what I read to the rest of my family.
All of this being said I still put the book on CD on hold at the library for my brother because I think it would be beneficial for him with his 9 and 11 year-old (and possibly the 7 year old too). It did bring a few tears to my eyes when I thought back to my childhood and realized why I never really felt loved by my parents because they have never spoken my love language to me. I KNOW that they love me and reading this helped me forgive them for some lingering feelings I have. After all they have no idea why I would not feel loved, they did their best.
This is getting really long. I could say more but I think you get the general idea. Valuable information, didn't love the writing.
For the most part I felt like the "love languages" were well explained but in the later chapters when examples are given of putting it into action the authors would say things like: speak their love language and then introduce the discipline and then speak their love language to end the conversation. The problem I have with this is what if their love language is "gifts" or "acts of service"? You give them a gift discipline them and then give them another gift? Sew a button on their shirt discipline them and then help them clean their room? It didn't make sense to me.
My other big hang up was that the book began by saying that it's hard to determine the love language of children 5 and under. My oldest is 5. I didn't feel like this book applied to my family. Most of the examples sounded like conversations with teenagers, and yet their is another book titled "The Five Love Languages of Teenagers". I feel like I would have gotten more out of reading the book about couples and then applying some of what I read to the rest of my family.
All of this being said I still put the book on CD on hold at the library for my brother because I think it would be beneficial for him with his 9 and 11 year-old (and possibly the 7 year old too). It did bring a few tears to my eyes when I thought back to my childhood and realized why I never really felt loved by my parents because they have never spoken my love language to me. I KNOW that they love me and reading this helped me forgive them for some lingering feelings I have. After all they have no idea why I would not feel loved, they did their best.
This is getting really long. I could say more but I think you get the general idea. Valuable information, didn't love the writing.
informative
slow-paced