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Love & Logic Solutions for Kids with Special Needs

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I am a new foster mom with a 5 year old special needs boy. I have used the Love and Logic way of parenting for years on my bio kids with WONDERFUL success!! I purchase this book in hope of some different words of wisdom for parenting our special little guy. I found that this book does have lots of pearls of wisdom, but it is primarily directed to teachers/school staff with disturbed kids. As with every L&L books, it was not a waste of time reading, just not what I expected. There is wonderful ideas and tactics to deal with kids that are "frequent flyers" to the principals office, can't seem to control their behaviors, middle finger problems, behavior IEP's that actually provide results. The book covers the inportance of not being the "I'm the adult, therefore you will respect me" attitudes and the futility of it, and teaches you further how to have the kids buy into the importance of THEM controlling their own behavior.
I feel that this book would best serve our wonderful teachers and administrators (especially administrators) after reading "Teaching with Love and Logic". It sure wouldn't hurt to send to a friend who has the belief that THEIR kid is wonderful, its the whole school is the problem.

This is a great book, but I would like to see more specific solutions for children with special needs in the home as part of love and logic program. As a mom to a child on the autistic spectrum I would like some more advice about applying the ideas to my son.

I did loan the book to my sons teacher who really found it useful

Mr. Funk uses the principles of Love and Logic and applies them to working with special needs kids. Lots of stories illustrate his points. This book answered many of my questions about how Love and Logic works with students who are cognitive and behavior impaired.

If you've already read Teaching with Love & Logic, then reading this book won't add much to your L&L strategies. Many of the anecdotes are the same, and, for me, the solutions for working with special needs students don't offer much relief. I have a class of 32 special needs students, and I was hoping to get systems, strategies and one liners (long-term, medium-term, and short-term solutions) for the whole class. This book was not bad, but it would have been more appropriate to title it "L&L solutions for a special needs child"

This book has a great philosophy behind it and is very helpful for both parents and educators.