Most Popular Books by JIm Fay

This parenting book shows you how to raise self-confident, motivated children who are ready for the real world. Learn how to parent effectively while teaching your children responsibility and growing their character. Establish healthy control through easy-to-implement steps without anger, threats, nagging, or power struggles. Indexed for easy reference.

Teachers often find themselves facing a variety of classroom situations never covered in initial training. This valuable resource helps teachers increase skills, enhance professional development and maximize classroom learning time. Discover why Love and Logic works in the school environment and understand the psychological reasons for its effectiveness. Jim Fay and David Funk''s truly positive approach and time-tested ideas and strategies will empower teachers to effectively manage classroom dynamics while bringing the joy back to teaching.

Let Jim Fay and Charles Fay, Ph.D., help you start your child off on the right foot. The tools in Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood will give you the building blocks you need to create children who grow up to be responsible, successful teens and adults. And as a bonus you will enjoy every stage of your child''s life and look forward to sharing a lifetime of joy with them.

Parents need help to teach their teens how to make decisions responsibly—and do so without going crazy or damaging the relationship. Parenting Teens with Love and Logic, from the duo who wrote Parenting with Love and Logic, empowers parents with the skills necessary to set limits, teach important skills, and encourage decision-making in their teenagers. Covering a wide range of real-life issues teens face—including divorce, ADD, addiction, and sex—this book gives you the tools to help your teens find their identity and grow in maturity. Indexed for easy reference.

Every parent wants their child to say, I''ve got what it takes. The information in this book by Jim Fay will help you make that happen. Provide kids with a positive self-concept Teach Children to feel good about themselves without criticism Learn how to set limits

Describes three different parenting styles--helicopters, drill sergeants, and consultants--and presents various illustrated parenting situations for each type, and offers advice and solutions based on a foundation of love and logic.

Through the miracle of birth, parents are given a tiny, defenseless babe totally dependent on them for every physical need. They have a mere eighteen years at most to ready that suckling for a world that can be cruel and heartless. That child’s success in the real world hinges in large part on the parents. Just thinking about raising responsible, well-rounded kids sends a sobering shiver of responsibility right up the old parental spine. But all is not so bleak. There’s hope, shining beacon-bright, at the end of the tunnel of parental frustration. Parenting doesn’t have to be drudgery. Children can grow to be thinking, responsible adults. This booklet, excerpted and adapted from the best-selling Parenting with Love and Logic, was designed to help parents and kids establish a rewarding relationship built on love and trust. What a deal! By parenting with Love and Logic, mothers and fathers can do away with the power struggles and put the fun back into parenting.

Even those who wait at home are eager to hear all about kindergarten. The animals are in a tizzy; Tommy is missing. The dog says Tommy is gone to a place called kindergarten. ?Where is kindergarten? they exclaim. ?What will happen to Tommy there? Will he ever come back?!? Eventually Tommy bursts into the barn with tales of all he learned in kindergarten. A charming and tender story that''s sure to reassure any child heading to kindergarten.

This fun little book was written for all of the Love and Logic educators who are looking for easy-to-use, hard-hitting hints to help them through the school day. Join Jim Fay and Dr. Charles Fay as they share their knowledge and humor of everyday life in the classroom.

The wisdom, wit, and experience of Jim Fay, Foster W. Cline, M.D., and Bob Sornson have been coupled together in Meeting the Challenge. This book is dedicated to the belief that challenging kids can grow up to be wonderful adults. It will help put enjoyment back into teaching and make parenting challenging kids a breeze. You will learn techniques that will help you raise joyful, productive, and responsible children.

In his work with families, Jim Fay often meets parents who are like mechanics trying to tune up a car engine--without the proper tools. Jim supplies the proper tools to tune up your relationship with your children. In Tickets To Success Jim helps you use the basic Love and Logic principles to recharge your family life, and he takes you on a light-hearted trip toward a crucial destination--responsible kids who own and solve their own problems. He''s a delightful tour guide.

Grandparents have changed! The stereotype of the fragile, white-haired retiree has been shattered. Today''s grandparents are active and involved- in everything from careers to fitness to dating. They are thirty-something to one hundred plus- and every age in between. Grandparent''s roles have also changed, as have many of their situations. While some may be grandparenting within a traditional family, others may be facing new challenges such as: acting as a stablizing force during times of family upheaval, providing day care for a grandchild, furnishing temporary living arrangements for an adult child and grandchild, filling the role of Mom and Dad for a grandchild, blending stepgrandchildren with biological grandchildren. Whatever the unique situation, parenting experts Jim Fay and Foster W Cline, M.D., show grandparents how to develop enjoyable, fulfilling relationships with both thier adult children- while helping grandchildren grow into responsible, caring young people.

Jim Fay pours into this book wisdom gained through more than 55 years'' experience as a teacher, principal, consultant, and parent. His experience includes both inner-city and suburban schools.Not only does he provide a step by step handbook for creating a Love and Logic school culture, he offers real world, practical examples and dialogs that demonstrate how a principal deals with the challenges of creating meaningful change. Innovation does not happen while a school staff is mired in dealing with a multitude of brush fires and distractions resulting from ineffective discipline policies and poor staff and student moral. A Love and Logic school culture creates and environment in which true and meaningful educational innovation can flourish and succeed. This is a book to keep on the corner of your desk. It will always be a quick reference about what to do and how to say it.

Imagine... No More Arguing. Imagine... No More Manipulation. Imagine... Stess Free Parenting. For over fifty years, Jim Fay has worked with schools, families, and children in the areas of teaching, parenting and discipline. In 1977, along with internationally renowned psychiatrist Dr. Foster W. Cline, he founded the Love and Logic Institute, Inc. which is dedicated to helping parents and educators create responsible kids. We know you will enjoy this book by beloved storyteller and parenting expert, Jim Fay, as he speaks to parents, educators, and community leaders about how to discipline kids without losing their love or respect.

Every parent needs this book Never hear, It''s not fair, or But I want it again No more giving into your kids demands. Have the courage to say No. Stop stealing your child''s potential for future happiness . Create the happy family of your dreams Entitlement- the ruination of a generation. Does your kid expect every new electronic toy and gadget, every new game, every new fashion trend, and when old enough a new car? Are you stealing your child''s potential for happiness, respect, appreciation, imagination, and joy? Entitlement has become an epidemic. Yet parents think they are giving in to this disease out of love for their children. In From Innocence to Entitlement: A Love and Logic Cure for the Tragedy of Entitlement the legendary Jim Fay, and entitlement expert, Dawn Billings, take an in-depth look at the devastation and destruction of entitlement and provide techniques for preventing and curing the problem.

The Love and Logic approach is the foundation for this book. This approach has helped millions of people raise wonderful, responsible children. Now we''re taking all that wisdom, which works so well with kids, and applying it to adult relationships. * Do you feel like there has to be a better way to interact, instead of arguing, with co-workers, significant others and any other adult in your life? * Do you ever struggle in your relationships with friends, family, co-workers, or significant others? * Do you feel like relating just shouldn''t be this hard? This book gives you a powerful toolbox filled with tried and true techniques that have proven useful to millions of people. It is guaranteed to make a profound difference in the way you communicate with others in your life!

Love and Logic Money-isms is a collection of wise words that capture the powerful and inspiring truths about raising financially responsible kids. If you would like to know how to: -Set limits without losing your children''s love -Do what''s best for your kids without feeling guilty -Do what''s right in the short term to prevent future financial problems in the long term This book is for you! Giving a child a credit card doesn''t teach responsibility. Giving them a chance to earn one by demonstrating maturity and responsibility does. Testimonials: Love and Logic Works like nothing I have ever seen. I have a 13 year old son with mild autism and for us the Love and Logic program has worked brilliantly.- Brenda, Sacramento, CA I can honestly tell you that bed time isn''t a chore anymore. I''m glad that we''ve started using Love and Logic early in our children''s lives.- Todd, Manitowoc, WI

This book is filled with excellent short stories that provide you with easy to use techniques that can be put to use immediately. It covers all age ranges for parents and educators and is half of our 20th Anniversary Journal Collection, years 1995-2000.

The Discipline with Love and Logic Resource Guide serves as a reference for the concepts needed for teaching and discipline. You''ll find articles and informational summaries plus activities for reflection for group mentoring and discussion.

In 1985 my brother, Larry, suggested the Love and Logic Journal. I was uncomfortable with writing articles for a new publication on a regular basis. I told him that I would soon run out of information and writing material. The Journal was created over my protests and concerns. Much to my amazement the articles have continued to flow through my fingers, into the computer, and on to the pages. This has gone on for ten years now and I am still a long way from running out of material. Parents and Teachers have continued to present new questions. Children have continued to present new challenges. Our research and creativity have continued to meet the challenge with new solutions. Since we started producing the Love and Logic Journal, Foster W. Cline, M.D. and I have written over a hundred articles. This book is a collection of the first ten years worth of articles from out quarterly publication.

Jim Fay presents 119 short lessons that combine common sense and simple to use strategies to help parents and teachers deal with common childhood issues.

For years, parents have asked Jim Fay and Dr. Charles Fay for specific words they can use when kids leave them speechless. The book is finally here! Twenty-three chapters include parent-child dialogues and plenty of information about how to handle the most frustrating things kids say.

In A Salamander Is Not a Fish, the legendary Jim Fay helps teachers create conditions that are absolutely essential for great academic and social learning. Many schools have responded to the pressure of the modern age by increasing the content of the curricula and the rigidity of the student code. Both educators and students feel the pressure. Some become overwhelmed by this pressure. Jim Fay gives you the skills to help you create the relationships and respectful environments that are at the heart of great learning communities. The bottom line is that the Love and Logic tools in this book make teaching easier and better. The path of Love and Logic helps teachers create conditions that are absolutely essential for great academic and social learning.

A practical reference for parents about how to teach children to be financially responsible and self-supporting.

America¿s Parenting Experts® Jim Fay and Charles Fay, Ph.D. have compiled tips they have written for our email database of over one hundred thousand subscribers. This easy-to-read book is a collection of their most current articles. You will find simple solutions for both parents and teachers of children of all ages! Here are a few examples of the many fantastic tips that are included: * Three Steps for Little Tykes * Why Won¿t He Get a Job? * When Kids Get in Trouble at School * Put an End to Sibling Spats * Tips for Win-Win Parent-Teacher Conferences