Dealing with a Defiant Child
Because of increased stress, worry, and frustration attributable to restrictions during the pandemic, kids are exhibiting increased levels of defiance. We have had many parents calling us with concerns about...
Achieving Healthy Love and Healthy Relationships
Why do so many parents today grieve because the children they love aren’t motivated to love and respect them back? Few people set out with a written plan for getting...
Privacy: How Much Should Kids Have?
Our kids are spending more time at home than ever before, which often means that they are spending more time on their digital devices. This can lead to parents feeling...
Don’t Raise an Entertainment Junkie
This past Tuesday we had our virtual event, Parenting in Uncertain Times, which featured Dr. Daniel Amen, Tana Fay, Charles Fay, Ph.D., and Jim Fay. If you saw this event,...
Getting Kids to Think: Building Problem-Solving Skills for Life
Have you ever stopped to think about what a blessing it is to be a good thinker? Now, I’m not talking about being a genius or intellectually gifted. I’m mostly...
An Important Love and Logic Goal: Self-Control
The primary goal of the Love and Logic approach is NOT to make kids behave. Rather, our primary goal is to help them learn how to make themselves behave. If...
Quiet Times: The Greatest Holiday Gift
What memories do you treasure from the holidays of your youth? Here I sit trying to remember the cool gifts I received and the spectacularly entertaining things we did as...
Affluence Distraction Disorder (ADD)
Too Much Stuff Leads to Too Little Motivation and Too Little Relationship Prior to the 1950s, most children grew up without many of the things they wanted. Because of this,...
Great News from Love and Logic
Dear Friends of Love and Logic, We have some great news to share with you. We have teamed up with Amen University, and its founder, ten-times New York Times bestselling...
