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maximum83 's review for:
Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility
by Foster Cline, Jim Fay
I like the general foundation of this. I think giving kids options instead of demands and letting them solve their problems, within reason, is a great parenting technique we could all stand to follow.
However, I think the authors of this book take it WAY too far and are borderline cruel in some areas. (The bit with the dog.) I also couldn't help feel like they viewed children as a burden and not something to love and treasure.
Their goals? Magnificent. The basis of their method? Brilliant. Their full technique? Not for me. Did I pick up a potential trick or two? Sure. But most everything in here had me shaking my head wondering why they bothered to have kids to begin with, if that's what they thought of them. And I know that in reality, no the authors don't really feel kids to be burdens, but that's how they come across.
I've been advised the book "How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk" has the same basic premiss but a much more realistic and kind technique. I'm looking forward to reading that one soon.
However, I think the authors of this book take it WAY too far and are borderline cruel in some areas. (The bit with the dog.) I also couldn't help feel like they viewed children as a burden and not something to love and treasure.
Their goals? Magnificent. The basis of their method? Brilliant. Their full technique? Not for me. Did I pick up a potential trick or two? Sure. But most everything in here had me shaking my head wondering why they bothered to have kids to begin with, if that's what they thought of them. And I know that in reality, no the authors don't really feel kids to be burdens, but that's how they come across.
I've been advised the book "How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk" has the same basic premiss but a much more realistic and kind technique. I'm looking forward to reading that one soon.