Love and Logic

by Annie Smith

March 26, 2008

"No significant learning occurs without a significant relationship!"

-James Comer-

Would you like to learn more on setting good firm limits?

Would you like for your child/adolescent to respect your authority?

Love and Logic is a helpful tool that may provide the answers your looking for. Love and Logic provides simple and practical techniques to help teachers and parents have less stress and more fun while raising responsible kids. Please find this tip provided by Love and Logic useful, as it provides techniques that you can begin experimenting with immediately. To learn more about the philosophy of Love and Logic please visit their website at www.loveandlogic.com.

Be Careful About Taking Away What Your Kids Need the Most

When we've got a seriously underachieving youngster, it's awfully tempting to resort to taking away all sorts of things in a desperate attempt to motivate them to do their schoolwork. Sadly, this often backfires, leading the child to become even more resistant about learning.

Most of us wouldn't feel that motivated if our spouse said, "Ok, that's it! No more golf [or whatever else we might love to do] until I start getting some better reports from your boss!"

While it's entirely reasonable to set some limits on TV, video games, and other entertainment activities when kids are doing poorly in school, taking them out of their favorite sport, Boy Scouts, music lessons, etc. is a bad idea. The research is clear on this:

Children who are involved in a healthy extracurricular activity are far less likely to get involved in drugs, sex, gangs, and other high-risk activities.

Kids who are struggling in school need at least one natural high…so that they aren't so tempted by various artificial ones. For additional tips for helping underachieving kids, view our DVD titled, Hope for Underachieving Kids.

Thanks for reading.

Dr. Charles Fay