Family Fuel, a Central California nonprofit organization, equips parents & educators with powerful tools to raise respectful, responsible, and resilient kids

Family Fuel Teaches Love and Logic

Love and Logic is a win-win approach to discipline, control & limits

    When you learn Love and Logic, you feel better about your relationship with your kids at

        the end of the day!

    Love and Logic is all about simple, practical, loving techniques you can use right away

        that hold kids accountable for their mistakes and misbehavior and lower your stress.

    The Love and Logic has both proactive skills to prevent misbehavior, and responsive skills

        to use when misbehavior is happening!

    Love and Logic skills are created to make working with your kids easier on a daily basis

        and also have an “eye to the future” having great, lasting, long-term effects.

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Bullying: Love and Logic Solutions For Parents

“This approach of empowering our children is a positive, hope-filled approach.” 

Ana-Margarita Sevcik, MA, LMFT,

Santa Maria, CA

Positive strategies for setting limits with bullies, teaching healthy boundaries for

victims, showing kids to act instead of being a bystander and empowering your

child by "teaseproofing" them!

2.5 hour class for parents of kids 3-18

Becoming A Love and Logic Parent

    “Love & Logic has given us the tools so that we know what to do no matter    

    what happens.”

    Bill & Christy Janka, Santa Barabra, CA

    Life-changing! Fun, practical skills you can use right away with your kids that    

    create calmer and closer relationships and increase respect, responsibility,

    compliance and self-control.

    12 hour seminar, 4 sessions, for parents of kids of all ages

Introduction To

Love and Logic Parenting

“We found the Love & Logic training was immediately applicable and we noticed positive changes right away."

Billy & Kristin Calderwood, Burbank, CA

A snapshot of the win-win approach to parenting which creates calmer and closer relationships, and puts the fun back in!

2.5 hour class for parents of kids all ages

Starting School Strong

    “Santa Barbara School District supports Family Fuel's Program,

    Starting School Strong.” 

    J. Brian Sarvis, Ed.D., Former Superintendent, Santa Barbara School District

    Practical, easy to learn Love and Logic skills give your kids the social and

    behavioral advantage transitioning into Preschool or Kindergarten & make

    parenting fun again.

    5 hour mini-seminar, 2 sessions for parents of kids 3-6

Love and Logic For Early Childhood

    “Life is SO simple now!  The classes have already changed our lives with our

    twins.  We use the skills on a daily basis and if it weren’t for Family Fuel, we

    would probably be in a mental hospital right now. Thank you so much!”

    Cris & Holly Misic, parents of twins, age 4, Santa Barabra, CA

    Life-changing! Fun, practical skills you can use right away with your kids that

    create calmer and closer relationships and increase respect, responsibility,

    compliance and self-control.

    12 hour seminar, 4 sessions, for parents of kids 0-6

Other Intro Classes

Discipline Kids Without Losing Their Love

The secret to discipline and keeping in relationship, using empathy before delivering a consequence

Creative Compassionate Concrete Consequences

Learn the secret of how to discipline your kids without losing their love & how to deliver learning-based consequences

Control in Healthy Balance

Skills for sharing control, problem solving, and decision making and a look at three parenting styles

Limits Without Ordering & Arguing

Setting firm limits using “I will” messages and enforcing them by neutralizing arguing & manipulation

Limits & Boundaries

How to set and enforce effective limits with your kids while maintaining healthy personal boundaries around yourself

Stop The Arguing!

Stopping arguing and avoiding getting hooked into arguments with your kids in a loving way

Topical Classes

Sibling Rivalry Solutions

Learn win-win solutions to solving sibling battles, teach siblings how to solve their own problems and do conflict resolution.

Chores, Stores & Allowance

An early start to financial responsibility, family contributions (chores), and “Store Wars”

Homework & Schoolwork

How to avoid homework battles & “up the odds” for your child getting the most out of learning

Strategies For a Typical School Day

Strategies for getting your kids out in the morning, chores, homework, and bedtime without a sweat!

Age Specific Classes

Toddlers & Preschoolers

Positive strategies for potty training, sleep issues, listening, and setting & enforcing limits

Tweens & Teens

Positive strategies for respect, responsibility, and homework in the family and bullying, peer pressure and acceptance at school

Simple Strategies For Kids In Your Care

    Practical, easy to learn Love and Logic skills for babysitters, nannies, camp

    counselors, after school care workers

    5 hour mini-seminar, 2 sessions for caregivers of kids of all ages

Advanced Parenting for Challenging Children

    This program is a seminar specifically for parents with children who have

    one or more of the following diagnoses:

    Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD),

    Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Bipolar Disorder, Depression,

    Overindulgence, Asperger’s Disorder, or Tourettes Syndrome. 

    This program, developed by internationally known Nancy Thomas, gives hope to

    the stressed parent with children who need more than Love and Logic skills. 

    This encouraging, multi-media class  gives practical, unique ideas for hurting

    children and their special needs, when love is not enough. 

    These special kids can go from defiance to compliance!!

40 Developmental Assets

   This program is a 5 Hour Workshop for parents, teachers and administrators aimed

   at discovering what assets the kids in your care have, ways to increase their

   capacity for success and lower their possibility for at-risk behaviors. 

   It is Proactive Parenting & Teaching Beyond Behavior.

   This is an interactive workshop style training that equips you with an individual

   action plan for your students and school. More info

Telephone or In-Person Parent Coaching

    We offer encouragement, skills and support.     

    We are not licensed counselors, and do not offer counseling services. 

    The advice we give parents is based on the Love and Logic Parenting philosophy.

    We encourage any parents desiring coaching to attend one of our 12 Hour Love

    and Logic seminars.  One reason we recommend this, is that many parents who

    originally desired one-on-one coaching have found that after taking one of the 12

    Hour seminars, they no longer felt the coaching was necessary.  Another reason is

    to have a common language of skills and techniques that can be used with your

    children.  When you attend one of these seminars, one of the benefits is free email

    “Parenting Tech Support.”  Just email your situations to us and we respond. 

    Typically, we do not put any limits on this free service.  Our desire is healthy

    families and we will do what we can to assist you in the means we have. 

    If you still want to go to the next step of coaching, specific plans can be

    made on an individual basis. 

    Cost: $100 for a one-hour session OR $150 for a two-hour session

A Win-Win Strategy - Discipline, Control & Limits

Love and Logic skills fit with the way the brain works in adults to reduce anger & stress, and in kids to create learning experiences that create real world wisdom & self-control.

Strategies for:

morning, bedtime, arguing, whining, chores, stores, homework, siblings, conflict

Alternatives to:

anger, frustration, threats, orders, demands, warnings, reminders, time out