Lincoln Academy: LOVE AND LOGIC MATERIALS

LOVE AND LOGIC MATERIALS

Lincoln Academy invites parents to check out the following items. Email Don Sauer (dsauer@jeffco.k12.co.us) to let him know which item you would like to borrow. It will be left at the front office with your name on it. When you’re ready to return it (no due date – take as long as you need), you may email to ask for another item. That one will be waiting for you to pick up when you drop off the previous one. Please make sure your name is on the items you return so we can give proper credit.

If there is a Love & Logic item you would like that is not on this list, let us know. We may be able to purchase it and loan it to you.

Title	Type	Author	Description
Allowing Kids to Choose Success	CD	Foster W. Cline, M.D.	“Allowing children to fail and then face the consequences of their decisions can be one of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child.” In this live presentation, Dr. Cline shares tools and techniques that will help your child choose success.
Avoiding Power Struggles with Kids: Featuring Jim Fay’s “Science of Control”	Audio-cassette	Jim Fay & Foster Cline	Are you ready to: Give your child a little piece of the action? Avoid the “rant, rave, and rescue” cycle? Steer clear of everyday struggles such as choosing clothes, breakfast, and leaving for work on time? Get lots of laughs? If you answered, “Yes,” then you’ll love what you hear on this audio.
Childhood Lying, Stealing & Cheating	Audio-cassette	Foster W. Cline, M.D.	Easy-to-understand strategies for helping children of all ages learn honesty and integrity. Ways to guide children away from manipulative, dishonest behaviors while avoiding destructive adult-child power struggles. Ways of addressing issues such as ditching school, stealing, lying about problems, privacy and more.
Developing Character in Teens	CD	Jim Fay	Does it ever seem like there’s a real shortage of honesty and character in today’s America? It’s every parent’s dream to send their child into the world prepared to make positive contributions. Kids who are honest, caring and ethical. Kids who are personally responsible, reliable citizens. Believe it or not, your kids will actually like you better because of this approach.
Didn’t I Tell You to Take Out the Trash?: Techniques for getting kids to do chores without hassles	Audio-cassette	Jim Fay & Foster Cline	Are you tired of arguing and fighting with your child over chores? This audio will help you: Choose age-appropriate chores that allow kids to be proud to contribute Negotiate reasonable time limits Immediately solve their refusal to do chores Learn how to have kids volunteer to help around the house
Four Steps to Responsibility: Techniques to Lead Children to Responsible Decision Making	CD or audio-cassette	Jim Fay	A four-step process to help parents raise children who are independent, responsible decision makers with high self-concept. Whether your child is a toddler or already a teenager, these techniques will help you equip them with the power to handle today’s problems and tomorrow’s challenges.
Grief, Trauma, and Loss: Helping Children Cope	CD	Foster W. Cline, M.D.	Powerful tools for helping children cope with the pain commonly associated with grief, trauma, and loss. You can be a major positive influence in the life of a hurting child!
Healing Trust: Rebuilding the Broken Bond for the Child with Reactive Attachment Disorder	CD	Nancy Thomas	Love alone cannot heal an unbonded child. These CD’s provide support for birth parents and foster and adoptive parents while helping ease the feelings of hopelessness so often felt by those whose lives have been touched by an unattached child.
Helicopters, Drill Sergeants and Consultants: Parenting Styles and the Messages They Send	Audio-cassette & booklet	Jim Fay	Some practical and usable suggestions for parents that will help you identify your parenting style, the message it sends, and stress-free techniques to help you become a “consultant” parent.
I’ve Got What It Takes	Booklet	Jim Fay	Information that will help you: Provide kids with a positive self-concept Teach children to feel good about themselves without criticism Learn how to set limits
Love Me Enough to Set Some Limits: Building Your Child’s Self-Esteem with Thoughtful Limit Setting	CD & audio-cassette	Jim Fay	Limits are the foundation for self-confidence and high self-esteem. Yet it seems many children have to plead through their out-of-control behavior, “How bad do I have to act before you’ll love me enough to set some limits?” Topics include homework; bedtime; chores; use of the car; clothes, music and friends; sibling fighting and bickering.
Magic for Early Childhood	Book or CD	Jim & Charles Fay	A fun-filled approach to parenting children ages birth through six years. Discover easy to use, fun, practical techniques that you can put to use immediately to make parenting your young children a joy.
Raising the Odds for Responsible Behavior	Audio-cassette	Jim Fay	Up your odds that your kids will become responsible. Learn how by: Being a good model…and remember, responsibility can be taught when you start by asking questions instead of telling Creating a high self-concept in the child Avoiding saying, “I told you so”
Shaping Self-Concept: Encouraging Kids to Take Risks and Learn	CD	Jim Fay	Shows teachers and parents how to reach underachieving students by giving them hope and the willingness to keep going when the going gets tough.
Tickets to Success	Booklet	Jim Fay	With lighthearted real-life examples, Jim Fay shares his parenting techniques that help children: Build strong self-concept Improve their problem-solving skills Become wise decision makers
Trouble-Free Teens	CD	Jim Fay & Foster Cline	Techniques to reduce or eliminate teenage rebellion. Helps parents avoid typical teen and pre-teen power struggles. Topics include: Control battles Telephone use Friends What never to criticize in teens
When Kids Leave You Speechless	Book	Jim & Charles Fay	Great comebacks every parent needs. From toddler to teens, you’ll find yourself ready for this book when your kids say things like: “It’s not fair!” “But why?” “Yuck! I don’t want that to eat.” “None of my friends do chores.” “I’m 16, you owe me a car.” “All my friends use drugs.” And all those words they don’t learn at home.
Winning the Homework Battle	CD	Jim Fay & Foster Cline	Parental excitement, interest, and enthusiasm about the things their child does right are the key to getting a child to be more cooperative about doing homework. With the easy-to-use techniques in this CD, parents can use homework as an opportunity to celebrate the child’s strengths and focus their child on those strengths.

Additional items available for checkout – Not from Love & Logic

Healing ADD: The Breakthrough Program That Allows You to See and Heal the 6 Types of ADD	Book	Daniel G. Amen, M.D.	A simple, easy to understand explanation of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Discover the biological basis of this disorder. Learn about the broad range of strategies and prescriptions for overcoming the associated problems. Advice on how to treat each of the six types of ADD, four of which are actually made worse by stimulant medication such as Ritalin. Effective treatments include diet, exercise, medications, supplements, and behavioral interventions. Parenting, family and school strategies are also included, along with sleeping and thinking-style disorder-management.
The Most Important Thing in Life I Learned from a Penguin: A Story of How to Help People Change	Booklet	Daniel G. Amen, M.D.	Dr. Amen has shared the story of Fat Freddy the penguin with hundreds of audiences across the country. Whether he is lecturing on team building, relationships, parenting, attention deficit disorders, overcoming self-defeating behavior, or stress management, he always finds a way to bring Fat Freddy into the presentation. Simple enough for small children to enjoy yet sophisticated enough to be utilized by executives at Fortune 500 companies.
The Schools We Need & Why We Don’t Have Them	Book	E. D. Hirsch, Jr.	Dr. Hirsch is the “father” of the Core Knowledge curriculum. This scholarly book is not an easy read, but it will help you understand why we have chosen to use the Core Knowledge curriculum at Lincoln Academy.
The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Integration Dysfunction	Book	Carol Stock Kranowitz, M.A.	If your child has been labeled with words like difficult, picky, oversensitive, clumsy, or inattentive…there may be a new explanation – and new hope.
Bridging the Gap: Raising a Child with Nonverbal Learning Disorder	Book	Rondalyn Varney Whitney	“Bridging the Gap comes to the rescue. It will clarify the disorder, offer practical advice, bring relief, and, if you can see through your tears, even make you laugh. It is a wonderful book.” –Carol Kranowitz, author of The Out-of-Sync Child
Finding Ben: A Mother’s Journey Through the Maze of Asperger’s	Book	Barbara LaSalle	“A wise and sad and ultimately uplifting book which speaks eloquently to the often unexpected experience of being a parent and loving a child.” –Perri Klass, Ph.D.
Eating an Artichoke: A Mother’s Perspective on Asperger Syndrome	Book	Echo R. Fling	The author writes, “This book is not meant to be the end-all on the subject of raising children with Asperger Syndrome. I am not an expert. What lies in its pages is the story of one mother’s struggle to cope.”
Helping the Child Who Doesn’t Fit In: Decipher the Hidden Dimensions of Social Rejection	Book	Stephen Nowicki, Ph.D. and Marshall P. Duke, Ph.D.	“This book [by two Clinical Psychologists], and the research that supports its findings, represents that rare blending of important new scientific insights with practical applications. It brings us new ways of helping children learn a new language, rich in emotional meaning, and necessary for healthy interpersonal relationships.” –Bonnie R. Strickland, Ph.D.
What Bereaved Children Want Adults to Know about Grief	Booklet (35 pgs.)	Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.	“I wish grownups would let me tell them something. It just seems like all the adults talk to me since my mommy died, but they don’t let me talk.” – Roger, age 9. These 15 Principles About Children and Grief provide valuable insights for parents and other caring adults.
A Child Called “It”: One Child’s Courage to Survive (first part of the trilogy; Dave’s life from ages 4 to 12)	Book	Dave Pelzer	“To know the torment of abuse and how one child willed himself to survive, read this compelling, spellbinding account. One can only hope it will help uf focus on stopping abuse before it occurs.” –Anne Cohn-Donnelly, National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse
The Lost Boy: A Foster Child’s Search for the Love of a Family (second part of the trilogy; Dave’s life from ages 12 to 18))	Book	Dave Pelzer	“The Lost Boy” stands shining as the premier book on the unique love and dedication that social services and foster families provide for our children in peril. Dave Pelzer is certainly a living testament of resilience, personal responsibility and the triumph of the human spirit.” –John Bradshaw
A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness (third part of the trilogy)	Book	Dave Pelzer	The gripping conclusion to his inspirational trilogy. With stunning generosity of spirit, Dave Pelzer invites his readers on his journey to discover how he turned shame into pride and rejection into acceptance – how a lost, nameless boy finally found himself in the heart and soul of a man who is free at last.

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