Parenting Teens with Love and Logic
by Foster Cline and Jim Fay
The Love and Logic method for adolescents: choices within limits, natural consequences, empathy before consequence, and 'enforceable statements'. The scripts are the useful part; the tone is occasionally glib.
Read it if…
you want scripts for common teenage standoffs.
Skip it if…
you dislike the consequence-based model.
Three things you will actually use
- Enforce what you control: yourself.
- Empathy, then consequence.
- Let the problem be theirs.
Do this first
Replace one threat this week with an enforceable statement.
Our verdict
Scripts for standoffs.
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