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Book Title: Parenting Teens With Love And Logic
ISBN: 9781617471780
By Author(s):Foster Cline, MD and Jim Fay
By Publisher:TYNDALE HOUSE
Format:PB
When kids hit their teen years, parenting takes on a whole new dimension. As they struggle toward independence and autonomy, some dicey issues emerge. Kids today face life and death decisions long before they're on their own.
So what do you do? hover over them so they won't get hurt? Drill them so they'll do the right thing? According to Jim Fay and Foster Cline, hovering and drilling won't prepare teens for the real world because they learn responsibility like they learn everything else: through practice.
That's where Love and Logic parenting comes in. Love means giving your teens opportunities to be responsible and empowering them to make their own decisions. Logic means allowing them to live with natural consequences of their mistakes and showing empathy for the pain, disappointment, and frustration they'll experience.
As a parent, you face no greater challenge- and no greater opportunity-than to guide your children through their teen years toward productive, happy and responsible adulthood.