I actually purchased this book from Amazon about 6 years ago. 6. So why review it now? Because I'm still using it (this very week even!), it's that awesome and useful to have around! I remember when my husband and I were taking our adoption certification classes in preparation for our son, and we were asked by show of hands who were spankers and who were non-spankers, my husband and I were the only parents in the room to raise our hands as the non-spankers (we were already the proud parents of a beautiful girl at that point). Several people turned to me and said, "but how do you raise a well behaved kid without spanking?" For us, that answer has been Love and Logic for many years now. Like many things, I first checked it out from the library if I recall, and then decided I wanted a copy for myself.
I will never claim that it always works perfectly, but I attribute that entirely to faults of mine, because sometimes I get sloppy with my technique. And I am very glad for those occasions to have this book to look back over, because when I am doing it properly, things go a lot smoother. I personally think children flourish best with boundaries and consequences that make sense, at least that has been the experience we have in our household, and you can't get any more fair then natural consequences.
I would like to say, having now a younger child with significant disabilities, not all of these techniques are useful with a kiddo who has those struggles, at least not where he's at developmentally right now, but our little man still benefits and grows from the use of natural consequences, and modifying these techniques to be at where he is developmentally rather then age wise, and that does fit in well with the therapeutic approaches we are using for our little man.
I was talking about this book once with someone from church a few years ago, and she commented about how this approach can take more work from the parent because it requires more thought and a change of habits often times. I think this is true, but for us, it has been worth the extra time because for our daughter, she's not just learning the "don't" she's learning the "why" when we use this method, which I think has strong benefits that outweigh the effort to be more nuanced in my parenting.
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