I haven’t talked much about Love and Logic lately and I want to give you an update. After reading the books 3 or so years ago I still see great wisdom in the approach. I’ll be honest: being loving while I’m being logical doesn’t exactly come easy. Logic….I’ve got that [...]

Child begins whining about an offense (imagined or real).
Adult kneels down and listens to said complaint.
Child whines again.
Adult repeats complaint to child, thus demonstrating an amazing ability to understand and empathize with said complainant.
Child whines. Again.
Adult attempts to reason with child to stop the complaining.
Child whines. AGAIN.
Adult very cheerfully looks child in the [...]

Yes…..and no. I think very very highly of the techniques and aspire to use them consistently and successfully in my parenting. At face value the principals are easy to understand and the techniques are easy to follow.
At the same time, there’s work involved. For me personally, it’s been quite a paradigm shift. [...]

Well, it looks like the boys survived me today. I wasn’t in a bad mood, but man! The control freak in me was very….controlling. Captain Earthquake lost his very first tooth (at 5! Is that too young? And it looks like there’s still something there where is tooth was. Possibly [...]

The Manager wasn’t pleased with his dinner tonight, and managed to find ways to waste time during mealtime tonight. He was still at the table with his chicken and green beans untouched after everyone else had finished and said, “Do I HAVE to eat this???” My first answer was a cheerful, “Yup. [...]

Okay readers, I need some help. You ready? Good.
Thursday I spent about ten hours working on the books for a local nonprofit. I was the one who transferred everything to the software program over a year ago, and they needed some updates to get ready for annual reporting. Unfortunately, someone had [...]