About

Yvonne Gardner

Yvonne Gardner has over 12 years of experience as a premiere Love and Logic Facilitator. She has assisted many parents and teachers in learning practical and powerful techniques to gain control of their homes and classrooms, maintain loving relationships with their children, and prepare children to become responsible and caring adults.

Yvonne discovered Love and Logic after she adopted a seven year old boy from a Russian orphanage. She found that parenting this independent young person was challenging and the solutions she discovered through this program provided an opportunity to gain practical parenting skills, while maintaining a respectful and loving relationship with her son.

Love and Logic

Love and Logic is a philosophy founded in 1977 by Jim Fay and Foster W. Cline, M.D. The Love and Logic Process allows children to grow through their mistakes, while allowing them to learn from the consequences of their choices.

The Rules of Love and Logic

Rule 1

Adults set firm limits in loving ways without anger, lecture, or threats.

Rule 2

When a child causes a problem the adult hands it back in loving ways.

1. In a loving way, the adult holds the child accountable for solving his/her problems in a way that does not make a problem for others
2. Children are offered choices with limits
3. Adults use enforceable statements
4. Adults provide delayed/extended consequences
5. The adult’s empathy is “locked in” before consequences are delivered.