Becoming a Love and Logic Parent® with Teens

Below you will find a more detailed outline of what will be covered in each of the six parenting class sessions for our Becoming a Love and Logic Parent® parenting class. As a participant of the class, you will receive a workbook that will correspond to each of the session topics for more applied learning.

Session 1: Raising Responsible Kids

• How to prepare your children for the real world
• Children learn from models in their lives
• Four steps to responsibility
• Why using empathy before applying consequences is so effective

Session 2: The Art of Sharing Control

• How to avoid power struggles
• How to provide choices in an effective way
• Magic words you can use for stating choices

Session 3: Letting Kids Own their Own Problems

• Parenting styles: Helicopters, Drill Sergeants, and Consultants
• How to determine who owns the problem
• How to guide children to own and solve their own problems

Session 4: Provide Great Thinking Opportunities for your Kids

• How to set appropriate limits and how to enforce them
• Effective ways of providing allowance
• How to make my words powerful without being mean
• Words that get your kids to think instead of look for revenge

Session 5: Let Empathy and Consequences do the Teaching

• The difference between consequences and punishment
• How to use empathy and consequences instead of anger to discipline
• Constructing logical consequences
• Pitfalls to watch out for that destroy learning from logical consequences

Session 6: Wrap-up Session

• How to enforce the completion of chores
• When I may need more specialized help with my child
• Further explanation of any Love and Logic concepts