Title: The 5 Love Languages of Children
Authors: Gary Chapman, PhD, and Ross Campbell, MD
ISBN-13: 978-0-8024-0347-6
ISBN-10: 0-8024-0347-6
Suggested Retail: $14.99 US
Paperback by Northfield Publishing
To purchase on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-5-Love-Languages-Children/dp/0802403476/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1336686964&sr=8-2
Summary:
To be their best, children need to feel loved. But if you and your child speak different love languages, your affection might get lost in translation, affecting the child’s attitude, behavior, and development. Dr. Gary Chapman’s groundbreaking Five Love Languages series has helped millions of couples communicate love more clearly, and Dr. Ross Campbell M.D. has applied the innovative system to children as well. The 5 Love Languages of Childrengives practical suggestions for learning how your children interpret love and creating a sense of security in which they can thrive.
Review:
The 5 Love Languages of Children discusses that every child has an unique way of perceiving love. There are five basic ways (love languages) that children or actually all people speak and thus understand emotional love. The five basic languages are: physical touch, words of affirmation, quality time, gifts, and acts of service.
Near the beginning of this book, authors Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell, M.D., write; “Most parents love their children and also want their children to feel loved, but few know how to adequately convey that feeling. It is only as they learn how to love unconditionally that they will let their children know how much they are truly loved.” Love is the foundation for raising a child to become an independent and responsible adult. If we can learn more and be more effective at expressing love to our children, the more successful we will be in parenting.
The child’s behavior is to tell the parent what primary love language the child is needing. It is a process to discover the child’s love language, especially when the child is young. This is because they are learning how to express and receive love in various languages, like an experimental phase. This book is geared for parents with children who are approximately ages 5 to 12.
Along with learning the five love languages, this book also shares how to more effectively discipline a child with understanding their primary love language. It also discusses the importance of teaching our children about anger and allowing them to express anger in order to avoid destructive passive-aggressive behavior.
My oldest is 5 1/2-years-old. I believe her love language is words of affirmation. This book discusses how words of praise should be backed up or justified. Not just simply a “good job”, but something like “good job practicing for your swimming skills test. Your hard work was evident when testing out with your instructor.”
I thought The 5 Love Languages of Children offered an unique take on effective parenting and overall understanding of relationships. This title was originally released in 1997, revised in 2005, and now again in 2012. I had not read previously any other books by Gary Chapman.
This book is broken down into sections that aren’t terribly long and seem easy to follow. Along with discovering your child’s primary love language, the end of the chapters also includes ideas of what to do with your child based on their love language. I found this book very useful and inspiring.
This video features Gary Chapman with I believe to be the earliest edition of The 5 Love Languages of Children~
Disclosure: This review was made part by Mom Sparks Media. The thoughts and feelings expressed are my own. No other compensation was received for this review.
