Synopsis: "Parenting little ones can be exhausting...until you discover Love and Logic. Take the exhaustion out and put the fun into parenting your little one. If you want help with:
Potty training. Temper tantrums. Bedtime. Whining . Time-out. Hassle-free mornings. and many other everyday challenges, then this book is for you! This book is the tool parents of little ones have been waiting for. America's Parenting Experts Jim and Charles Fay, Ph.D., help you start your child off on the right foot. The tools in Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood will give you the building blocks you need to create children who grow up to be responsible, successful teens and adults. And as a bonus you will enjoy every stage of your child's life and look forward to sharing a lifetime of joy with them."
My Review: I have really mixed feelings about this book. As my Husband and I are discovering, Munchkin has a very strong personality and we need to try some new things before he gets any older. Love and Logic was suggested to us by many friends and family. I thought this would be a book that really applied to where we are currently. I found the book jumped around in the methods a lot, there were a lot of examples and techniques for preschool aged kids. I would have found it much easier if they had laid it out starting with infants and toddlers so that as we are ready for new techniques we could just read the next chapter as we applied them. Honestly, there wasn't as much help for the younger toddlers other than the "uhoh song". I also found that for a book promoting a parenting method called Love and Logic that it got rather pushy and dramatic. I got a lot of if you don't use this method your kid is going to end up doing drugs, in jail, pregnant or dead which really put me off. The good thing was that I had already be using a lot of their methods on my own prior to reading the book so it did give me some satisfaction that as a first time parent I was moving a good direction and not completely out of my mind.
Potty training. Temper tantrums. Bedtime. Whining . Time-out. Hassle-free mornings. and many other everyday challenges, then this book is for you! This book is the tool parents of little ones have been waiting for. America's Parenting Experts Jim and Charles Fay, Ph.D., help you start your child off on the right foot. The tools in Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood will give you the building blocks you need to create children who grow up to be responsible, successful teens and adults. And as a bonus you will enjoy every stage of your child's life and look forward to sharing a lifetime of joy with them."
My Review: I have really mixed feelings about this book. As my Husband and I are discovering, Munchkin has a very strong personality and we need to try some new things before he gets any older. Love and Logic was suggested to us by many friends and family. I thought this would be a book that really applied to where we are currently. I found the book jumped around in the methods a lot, there were a lot of examples and techniques for preschool aged kids. I would have found it much easier if they had laid it out starting with infants and toddlers so that as we are ready for new techniques we could just read the next chapter as we applied them. Honestly, there wasn't as much help for the younger toddlers other than the "uhoh song". I also found that for a book promoting a parenting method called Love and Logic that it got rather pushy and dramatic. I got a lot of if you don't use this method your kid is going to end up doing drugs, in jail, pregnant or dead which really put me off. The good thing was that I had already be using a lot of their methods on my own prior to reading the book so it did give me some satisfaction that as a first time parent I was moving a good direction and not completely out of my mind.
My Rating: While I don't agree with the delivery this book contained or the organization, the methods are good (especially as I had already been using many of them). I give it a rating of One Paw and a Stump Wag.
I remember back in the day my husband and I attended a Love and Logic course. We learned a few things, but didn't stick to anything very hard. The only thing I really remember about the experience is that we had our kid (probably about the age of yours right now) in their babysitting class and he was brought screaming to us. I can't remember now what happened, if he freaked out, or was getting beat up, or what, but I do remember thinking that the class wasn't worth traumatizing my kid over!
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DeleteI can imagine how that would have made me feel if the babysitters couldn't take care of the kids properly, I would probably start to really question the usefulness of what they may have been teaching. I definitely think some of it is helpful but not all of it.
DeleteBooks like this are hard. Sometimes they have such great advice and sometimes they're not so great.
ReplyDeleteI agree, if I do use a self help book I usually only use portions of the information, but in this case I was getting a little desperate as Munchkin is hitting the terrible two stage a little early!
DeleteI think my aunt uses this a lot. Something about letting my cousin make her own decisions and seeing what the results are. So if she chooses to go outside without a coat then she will be cold. Things like that. I don't know if it is working or not???? They took some classes I think. If I had a kid I would be like "put your coat on!!" But that's just me.
ReplyDeleteI have been allowing Munchkin to make some of his own decisions, like what to eat for dinner or snacks (given choices I have picked), what he shirt he would like to wear, if he wants to watch Kipper or Mickey Mouse, etc. When it comes to important things I am what the book describes as a Drill Sargent mom, I give orders and expect them to be followed, which makes for quite a few disagreements between me and him.
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