EDITING TLC

For the past 25 years I have had the privilege of being an independent facilitator of Love and Logic® curricula:

Becoming a Love and Logic Parent®

Early Childhood Parenting Made Fun!™

9 Essential Skills for the Love and Logic Classroom®

Parenting the Love and Logic Way®

I had the privilege of copyediting the newest Love and Logic Curriculum, Parenting the Love and Logic Way® (Facilitator and Participant Handbooks)



 I felt honored to be able to copy edit Charles Fay's newest book:

From Bad Grades to a Great Life! by Dr. Charles Fay has become my favorite book in the Love and Logic® catalog. I have been facilitating Love and Logic parenting classes for over twenty years, and have shared many of their books, CDs, and DVDs with parents in my classes.  This book, however, is one that I am going to suggest that ALL families read, long before their children even enter school.  If you only look at the title, you might think my suggestion is a strange one.  My thoughts are such, that if you read the book early on in your parenting career, you may never end up dealing with a child’s bad grades.  Some of the subjects related in the book are: 1) Are we focusing on the right things? 2) What are your child’s gifts? 3) What about manners and respect?  4) Do you know how important chores are and how they relate to school success? 5) How much “stuff” does your child have? 6) Would you like to raise a calmer, more motivated child? 7) Can all children be successful?  8) How can your child make a difference in this world? 9) Do you know how to love your child for who he/she is?

Dr. Charles Fay is a psychologist who has been involved with Love and Logic his whole life.  Having grown up with Love and Logic, his father being Jim Faye, one of the founders of Love and Logic, Inc.®  Dr. Fay is a parent, author, and consultant, and the strategies that he teaches have made a huge impact on many people, including those that have participated in my classes.  I’m seeing this firsthand in many families.  As I stated earlier, I will be highly recommending From Bad Grades to a Great Life! to ALL participants in the future.  If you want a handbook on strategies for raising children, this is the book for you.



I also copy edit many of the weekly Insider Club e-newsletters.  Go to www.loveandlogic.com to join and receive a Love and Logic email each Wednesday!

I also wrote a review for Jim Fay's newest book:

Jim Fay is someone whom I have been following for many, many years.  I have facilitated Love and Logic® parenting classes for over twenty years, and have been using Love and Logic® strategies and skills in my third grade classroom for longer than that.  I have personally seen how Love and Logic can change both classrooms and families to have loving atmospheres with high expec-tations in which dignity is maintained, and the control and the thinking is shared by all.

In the book Teaching with Love & Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom by Jim Fay and David Funk, I learned all about strategies for the classroom, and fur- thered my study by using 9 Essential Skills for the Love and Logic Classroom by Jim Fay and Charles Fay. These are excellent resources, which I’ve shared with many others over the years. They definitely had a huge impact on my career.

Creating a Love and Logic School Culture by Jim Fay goes beyond the other books regarding Love and Logic and teaching.  Readers will find the 9 Essential Skills and many other strat- egies in this book, but the focus of the book is on setting up a Love and Logic culture throughout the whole school.  It would be invaluable to administrators and/or leadership groups working on a schoolwide plan. The step-by-step helps and the examples of core beliefs, along with disciplinary interventions, sample letters, and a comparison chart between system-based programs vs. principles- based programs (Love and Logic) will prove invaluable to any school with an open mind to change.