June Parent Book Club Pick

You've probably taken the 5 Love Languages test with your partner, but what about your kids? Use this book to learn how your child likes to communicate, receive love, and learn more effectively.

According to the authors, The 5 Love Languages of Children are:

1) physical touch,

2) words of affirmation,

3) quality time,

4) gifts, and

5) acts of service

One of those five is the primary love language.

Discussion questions:

1. What about the book struck you?

2. Is there anything that changed the way you thought about parenting your kids?

3. Did you recognize yourself or any of your children in the scenarios?

4. Have you shared your child’s love language with other people who interact with your child? 

5. Of all the times you have felt love for or expressed love to your child, have there been occasions when that expression of love was conditional—that is, based on something she or he did, rather than who she or he is? Do you ever express love “just because”?

6. What are some things you could do over the next week to fill up that tank? What takes away from it?

7. How did your parents fill or not fill your emotional love tank? What can you learn from your childhood experience as you seek to love your own child?