Bite Your Tongue: The Podcast Season 3, Episode 69 Using Love and Logic with Our Young Adult Kids
Today we speak with the legendary Charles Fay, Ph.D. who, with his father Jim Fay and Dr. Foster W. Cline founded Love and Logic. For many years parents have turned to Love and Logic for guidance for their young children. It is a trusted research-driven, whole child approach to child-rearing.
And now - guess what? Dr. Fay is talking about how Love and Logic works for building healthy relationships with our young adult children!
We talk about their new book coming out in March 2024 that includes a chapter on young Adults. The book is titled, “Raising Mentally Strong Kids: How to Combine the Power of Neuroscience with Love and Logic and Grow Confident, Kind, Responsible, and Resilient Children and Young Adults”, written by neuroscientist Dr. Daniel Amen and Dr. Charles Fay.
Dr. Fay explains:
- How the successful techniques used with our toddlers and teens can now apply to our adult children.
- He outlines the five Steps of Empathy and how this helps free young adults to make their decisions -- but also live with the consequences.
- How giving up our own control puts the power into our adult children’s hands
- What is the risk of setting them free?
- How can we set our own boundaries when needed and why it is important?
- By removing the chaos we create deposits into a healthier parent-adult relationship.
Two important takeaways:
- “We can never consistently work harder on someone else’s life than they are”
- “The more words I use, the more ineffective I become”.
Huge thank you to Connie Gorant Fisher, our audio engineer.
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