Shares How to Teach Kids Responsibility: The Five Essential E’s! Part 4 of 5: EXPECTATIONS

Booker T. Washington said, "Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him." This is the power of Expectations which is the Fourth E in our five-part blog series on The Five Essential E's of Raising Responsible Kids. If you are just starting this series, make sure to go back and catch up on the last three E's: Example, Experience, and Empathy.

Shares How to Teach Kids Responsibility: The Five Essential E’s! Part 3 of 5: EMPATHY

    

     This blog is the third in a five-part series about raising responsible children. Last week we went over the importance of Experience and how it plays a role in these five steps. We hope you are able to follow along each week and put each of these steps into practice in your day-to-day life. 

Shares How to Teach Kids Responsibility: The Five Essential E’s! Part 2 of 5: EXPERIENCE

This blog is the second in a five-part series about raising responsible children. As a reminder, Love and Logic® teaches us to use five easily understood, practical, and effective skill sets - The Five Essential E's: Example, Experience, Empathy, Expectations, and Encouragement.  Last week we went over the importance of Example and how it plays a role in these five steps. We hope you are able to follow along each week and put each of these steps into play as we move on. 

Shares How to Teach Kids Responsibility: The Five Essential E’s! Part 1 of 5: Example

This week we proudly announced the release of our long-awaited DVD. After pouring everything we have into this disc, we are now able to celebrate our grand release and share this with all of you. In revel of this exciting event, we are hosting this free blog series on the Five Essential E's to Raising Responsible Children. This blog series is filled with information normally taught in our classes and seminars, as well as in our DVD. We hope you will find some light in this information and can apply these techniques with your children at home. Please follow our blog by subscribing to the RSS feed or by email (in the right column) to get updated on future series posts!

Cystic Fibrosis Food Struggles: How do you get your children to eat enough?

A mother recently contacted us about getting her 19 month old daughter with cystic fibrosis to raise her calorie intake.

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Question: Are your CFer's picky eaters? My daughter who is almost 19 months has cystic fibrosis but the only problem she has is that she doesn’t eat well. So, we have to give her Pediasure to make sure she is getting enough calories. I wish that she would eat better but she doesn’t so the Pediasure is necessary for the time being. And I am tired of being viewed as the lazy parent who doesn’t want to make her child eat. If this is something you have experienced, how have you handled it? – NE

Once a Parent, Always a Parent: When Adult Children with Chronic Illness Make Bad Life Choices

A mom writes in to us and shares her story about her adult daughter who has diabetes.

Question: My husband and I are struggling with our now 22 year old daughter who has had type 1 diabetes since age six. Your book was recommended to me. I wish we'd had this information years ago. I can now see where we played right into the hostile dependent lifestyle by trying so hard to make her feel normal. I feel like a failure. I recognize that she is falling prey to "victimization," seems to think we are her biggest enemies who are only seeking to cause her unhappiness, and is overly dependent on relationships with the wrong type of young men. She is so "confused," she can't seem to separate good intentions from bad. Please direct me how to help her or what to do. Thank you so much. Your book opened my eyes to the problem, and I'm praying it's not too late. - CT

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Survival Skills for Taking Young Children to the Medical Clinic

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It was about 12:30pm. I had been at the hospital in the specialty clinic now for nearly three hours with two young children, parked in a small room with an exam table and one chair. The kids were bouncing off the walls and I was ready to go out of my mind.

Did the doctor REALLY think I could absorb what she was saying to me? I could not understand half the words she was using. This "CF-thing" was still all so new to me. Yet, my two babies' lives depended on me. Sigh. I'd better get my act together. As my son melted down and my daughter started hanging on me, I really did not feel like parent of the year.