The Five Love Languages of Children

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Call Number: Adult BOCD / Nonfiction / Family & Relationships / Chapman, Gary
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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Read by Chris Fabry.
Attitude. Behavior. Development. Everything depends on the love relationship between you and your child. When children feel loved, they do their best. Discover your child's primary language and learn what you can do to effectively convey unconditional feelings of respect, affection, and commitment that will resonate in your child's emotions and behavior.

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Helps give parents tools submitted by rummella on August 16, 2019, 9:48am Helps provide practical ways to connect w kids/ people in general based on primary love languages. Sometimes redundant, but helps reinforce ideas. Bible verses quoted occasionally- easily ignored if not meaningful to you.

One of the more useful parenting books I've read submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on June 17, 2021, 11:58pm The authors expound on their theory that there are five different ways that people express and experience love: physical touch, words of affirmation, quality time, gifts and acts of service. By the time kids are five or so, they say, the kids have started to have a preference (before then children just need love in all the languages all the time). Knowing your child's love language can help you to be sure that they know that you love them, which leads to all kinds of good things they'd like to tell you more about.

For example, if a parent expresses love by acts of service, but the child experiences love through physical touch, then they may feel unloved even while the parent bends over backward for them. Similarly, if they experience love through words of affirmation, but a parent disciplines by yelling, the child may not get the message "You made a bad choice" but may instead hear "I don't love you."

The book is mildly, though overtly, Christian. Non-Christians will probably roll their eyes occasionally, though I still think that the basic message of the five love languages and how to discover and use them will ring true and be useful.

I think this is actually one of the more useful parenting books I've read, and recommend it quite highly.

AMAZING submitted by czadams on July 2, 2023, 12:52am I learned a lot from this book. I knew about the five love languages for adult relationships, but I think there are some specific tricks for helping kiddos feel loved, which is a foundation and a prevention measure for future relationships