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littlebookontheprairie's review against another edition
4.0
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.
karielizabeth's review against another edition
3.0
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.
cathsgraphs's review against another edition
3.0
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.
taylorheaney's review
fast-paced
3.0
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.
bethsulley's review against another edition
3.0
If you've read the original Love Languages book, I don't think you'll get much more out of this one. The premise is the same and it is easy enough to generalize the love languages to parenting from adult relationships. Also, it's 28 years old, so many of the examples and situations feel very dated and not realistic.
bekmorr's review against another edition
5.0
Delves deeper into applying the concept to kids. Very helpful!
csmorehouse's review against another edition
3.0
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.
readingonthewalls's review against another edition
5.0
Wow wow wow! My heart was incredibly heavy after reading this. I have realized how much I lacked as a child and even an adult and hope to be a game changer for my family! This book is so important and will probably reread once maybe twice a year.
I felt like I was given tools, more knowledge on diving deeper on healing my own wounds in order to give the right tools for my children.
I felt like I was given tools, more knowledge on diving deeper on healing my own wounds in order to give the right tools for my children.
notesonbookmarks's review against another edition
3.0
If you haven't read the first of Chapman's books, The Five Love Languages, this book will seem like a revelation. If you have, you've probably already been thinking about the love language of each of the people in your life, especially your children. This book will help you more clearly identify not just the love language of each of your children, but specific ways to show love through their specific languages. Chapman and his co-author Ross Campbell, who specializes more in child psychology, successfully and clearly adapts his template to the young people in your life and even gives you a quick primer on love languages for grown-ups as well, in case this is new to you.