Parenting the Love and Logic Way

Parents, grandparents, and other caretakers raising children

For parents/caregivers of children ages: 0 - 18

Parenting the Love and Logic Way is a curriculum designed to teach parents how to experience less stress while helping young people learn the skills required for success in today's world. This approach is based on the following two assumptions:

• That children learn the best lessons when they're given a task and allowed to make their own choices (and fail) when the cost of failure is still small
• That the children's failures must be coupled with love and empathy from their parents.

Love and Logic Institute, Inc.
Love and Logic Institute, Inc.

• https://www.loveandlogic.com/products/parenting-the-love-and-logic-way-training-curriculum
• Email: cservice@loveandlogic.com
• Phone: (800) 338-4065

The goals for the target population of Parenting the Love and Logic Way are:

• Avoid negative interactions with their children that lead to neglect and abuse
• Learn how to teach responsibility without losing their child’s love
• Learn how to set limits
• Learn how to avoid power struggles
• Learn how to guide kids to own and solve their own problems
• Learn how to teach kids to complete chores without reminders
• Improve relationship with their child
• Learn to respond to misbehavior with empathy rather than anger

The essential components of Parenting the Love and Logic Way include:

• All of the Love and Logic programs are based on the following four principles, which are designed to enhance the relationship between the adult and the child:
• Build the Self-Concept: Help children feel good about themselves.
• Share the Control: Give children choices that do not cause problems for others.
• Provide the Empathy: Provide a strong dose of empathy before delivering consequences.
• Share the Thinking: Allow the child to think and solve their own problems.
• Parents are taught new skills in a group setting to deal with the children in a calmer way:
• Adults set limits without anger, lectures, threats or repeated warnings and instead use enforceable statements.
• When children cause problems, adults hand these problems back in loving ways by replacing anger and lectures with a strong dose of empathy.
• Parents or other caregivers taking the classes are provided a copy of Parenting the Love and Logic Way workbook

Parent/Caregiver Services

Parenting the Love and Logic Way directly provides services to parents/caregivers and addresses the following:

• Anger in response to their child's behavior

Recommended Intensity

Weekly 1.5- to 2-hour class

Recommended Duration

6 weeks

Delivery Settings

This program is typically conducted in a(n):

• Community Daily Living Setting
• Community-based Agency / Organization / Provider
• School Setting (Including: Day Care, Day Treatment Programs, etc.)

Homework

Each week a skill is taught. Parents should practice the skill during the week and come back the following week to address any questions and then to learn a new skill to implement.

Languages

Parenting the Love and Logic Way has materials available in the following languages other than English:

• Spanish

For information on which materials are available in this language, please check on the program's website or contact the program representative (contact information is listed in this page).

Resources Needed to Run Program

The typical resources for implementing the program are:

• One instructor
• TV monitor or projector compatible with laptop
• DVD player or laptop with USB port
• Space large enough to hold the number of participants

Prerequisite/Minimum Provider Qualifications

The teaching of the Love and Logic skills are done by the authors in the videos which are shown in the classes as part of the Parenting the Love and Logic Way curriculum. There are no qualifications beyond owning the curriculum and the facilitator guide walks the facilitator through each and every step for all classes; even down to the words to say.

Manual Information

There is a manual that describes how to deliver this program.

Program Manual(s)

Manual details:

• Fay, C., & Fay, J. (2024). Parenting the Love and Logic way: Facilitator guide. Love and Logic, Inc. https://www.loveandlogic.com/products/parenting-the-love-and-logic-way-training-curriculum

Training Information

There is no training information available for this program.

• There are currently no published, peer-reviewed research studies on outcomes with the appropriate target population for the topic area(s) in which Parenting the Love and Logic Way has been reviewed.

• Fay, C. (2005). Effects of the Becoming a Love and Logic Parent training program on parents' perceptions of their children's behavior and their own parental competence: A preliminary investigation. https://www.loveandlogic.com/pages/research-funding