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