A review by kathleec
Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility by Jim Fay, Foster Cline

informative medium-paced

2.0

I read the third edition - the first three chapters and the last two Pearls are good, but most of the in between didn’t align with my values. Many of the tactics felt manipulative and passive aggressive. There were times where the authors basically recommended not fully communicating what the child has done wrong because according to them, the child will be able to infer based on your actions. Many of the stories and sample dialogues throughout the book were laughably unrealistic and conveniently supported the point they were promoting perfectly. I think the big take alway of allowing your child to experience natural consequences and cultivating their confidence in their own decision making skills especially when you start early on when children are making low-risk choices was great, but I don’t think many of their tactics regarding how to do that really hit home for me.