From Foster Cline, MD & Lisa Greene, authors of Parenting Children with Health Issues:

“Parenting is really about leadership. And when times are tough, good and bad leadership skills rise to the surface. Leaders cannot force those who follow to accept their values and beliefs. The same holds true for parents of an adolescent. Forcing an issue does not work because both followers and children must choose to accept the belief of those who lead. So the Five E’s are offered, not demanded.”

Love and Logic teaches us to use five easily understood, practical, and effective skill sets. We call them the Five Essential E’s: Example, Experience, Empathy, Expectations, and Encouragement.

To find out more about the five E’s and to see video clips of them, go to Parenting Children with Health Issues, or to Love & Logic Institute.