Educators Attend Love, Logic Parent Instructor Training
(Press Release 11-21-08)
Hank Mooney, Office of Public Information

Four members of the Eastern Oklahoma State College GEAR UP for a Brighter Tomorrow team attended a Love and Logic Parent® Instructor Training October 9-11, 2008, in Denver, Colorado. The three day intensive training was conducted by Jim Fay, Foster Cline, and Charles Fay. The training included Understanding the Love and Logic Philosophy, The 9 Essential Skills for the Love and Logic Classroom, Teens Need Not Be Terrifying, A Framework for Applying the Love and Logic Skills, How to Get People into Your Classes and Keep Them There: Presentation Secrets, and informal breakout groups.

Although kids can bring much joy, laughter, and fulfillment into our lives, they can also be confusing, bewildering, and downright frustrating at times, often causing parents to wish their kids had been born with an instruction manual dangling from their necks. Over 30 years ago, these same challenges confronted two of America's burgeoning parenting experts--Jim Fay and Foster Cline, M.D.--the co-creators of the Love and Logic method for raising responsible kids. Since those early days, Jim's son, Charles Fay, now a school psychologist, but also one of the first kids to be raised with the Love and Logic method, joined the team and has helped the Love and Logic company grow to include books, tapes, videos, seminars, and more.

The two Rules of Love and Logic: Rule #1: Adults set limits without anger, lectures, threats or repeated warnings. Rule #2: When children cause problems, adults hand these problems back in loving ways.

GEAR UP Education Coordinators attending were LaDonna Baldwin, Fenessa Little, Lori Roberts, and Dara Ward. The four are now Certified Becoming a Love and Logic® Independent Facilitators and plan to offer the parent curriculum in the GEAR UP cohort schools.

"The training was great!" said GEAR UP Education Coordinator Fenessa Little. "I'm excited to get started presenting the information to parents. Every parent's goal is to raise responsible, happy and well-adjusted kids. Parents can use all the help we can get to make that happen."

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GEAR UP Education Coordinators attending the training and pictured with Love and Logic co-founder Jim Fay, second from left, are Fenessa Little, Lori Roberts, LaDonna Baldwin, and Dara Ward.