This book is brilliant! Beyond the fact that this is a book about how to love your child in the way that he or she best identifies and recognizes as love...because that alone is a smart and beautiful undertaking, this book begins by introducing the concept of learning to speak your child's love language and then includes a gentle list of things to remember about children.

In this book, Chapman and Campbell explain each of the five ways a child expresses and receives love. They explain how to identify your child's primary love language and provide numerous examples of how to speak it through various actions targeting specific age groups. Guidance is also given for using this method when there is a need to discipline and when teaching life rules to young children.

A perfect gift for a mother of young children, I wish I had read this earlier. This will be my go-to gift this year. Though I was already aware of the love languages for marriage, I hadn't considered this for children. Upon reading this, it was painfully obvious which languages my two speak (both different) and what I can do differently. I will follow up and note later if some adjustments I plan to make effect change. Also, the copy I read was reprinted in 2016 and has a more modern cover. 5 stars.

I was introduced to The Five Love Languages when I was a young teenager. I was instantly intrigued by the idea of five different ways that people show and receive love. So when the opportunity came up to read The Five Love Languages of Children I was excited to pick it up since I've become a mother. The idea of loving my child in the best ways possible for them was easily something that I wanted to learn more about!

“The 5 Love Languages of Children” is written by Gary Chapman, author of “The 5 Love Languages”, and Ross Campbell, a psychiatrist who specializes in the parent-child relationship.
If you've read The 5 Love Languages, you will recognize the same elements discussed in that book but this time, they apply to children, which is where Ross Campbell's expertise comes in to play.
There are sections devoted to parenting philosophy, discipline & the nature of children whereas the original book focused more on the spouse and romantic love relationships.
A good informative book, for parents, couples, teachers or anyone who wants to grow their Emotional intelligence towards children!

Žinoma, 5 meilės kalbų idėja man ne naujiena, bet labai džiaugiuosi išklausius knygos apie vaikus. Pradėjau pastebėti ryškėjančias savo dukros meilės kalbas ir tik pradėjus klausytj sužinojau, kad nuo 5m. vaikuose galima pastebėti, kokios yra jų pagr. meilės kalbos. Dar sužinojau, kad jos gali keistis vaikui augant.
Knygoj daug patarimų, pavyzdžių, priminimų. Rekomenduoju tėvams.

The five love languages has had much acclaim for the use in parenting children as well in the aiding of marriages. I found the book slightly interesting, mildly helpful, and downright obvious in spots. While understanding the different love languages a person can have: Acts of Service, Words of Affirmation, Receiving Gifts, Quality Time, and Physical Touch, can move you worlds closer to getting along with someone, it doesn't necessarily always bridge the gap of personality comprehension. For children, I believe the language that each child responds to, is constantly changing and almost always not one of these languages but a combination of them. This makes it difficult to know and administer to. While making relationships better is never an easy undertaking, once you understand a love language, you would think it might simplify things. This isn't always so, either. Just because my husband knows my love language is Acts of Service, doesn't necessarily mean he's any more willing to do the dishes or clean up after himself. Now there's a book I can get behind, getting you husband and children to clean up after themselves.

I'm not saying this book has no merit. By far it has some great ideas and ways of getting to the heart of relating to your children, and it can't possibly hurt or hinder your relationship with your children. Especially for those that have never considered that there are other ways to show your love for your children than what you're used to, it can give great insight into alternative methods for doing so. For someone like me, who is constantly analyzing my relationships with my family and how to make them better, it isn't altogether a new topic. At the very least, it's a good solid foundation of principles for those looking to gain a deeper connection with their children.


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If you enjoy being guilt tripped over not doing enough as a mother than this is the book for you! The answer to every problem is to love your children more. Give up more of your free time and responsibilities and simply love your children. All your problems will disappear! If you have a job, as a mother, or are a father than travels (because women don't travel for work), then you are certain to create children who deal drugs. So, give up that day job and start loving your children today! (That is literally in the introduction).

Needless to say, this isn't the book for me. And if that description appeals to you, please consider looking into the book Boundaries with Children by Henry Cloud. You will honestly get much better results from it.

10%-- Erk. Pretty smarmy. Not sure I'm going to be enlightened beyond the title, which is-- use the five love languages on your kids.

100%-- Well, it's pretty much exactly what the title says. It's formulaic but a good reminder to seek out the way important people in your life like to be loved.

Finished in one day.

Maybe I've just forgotten the original Five Love Languages book but this one honestly might've been better. Perhaps I'm just seeing a lot of my own and my husband's inner child as we raise our own kiddo. This book felt refreshingly straightforward.

I appreciate the aims of this book. My biggest worry as a parent--or rather, ONE of my many biggest--is that my daughter will not feel sufficiently loved/appreciated/proud of/etc. Love was a complicated and fraught thing in my home growing up, which has led me to be overly-concerned and ready to consume the books offered at the library in hopes of not missing out.

This is another one of those books that could have been covered in a nice article rather than a lengthy book and the elaborations seemed to treat the reader as if no interpretation abilities were present. I think this will help most in conflict, which is perhaps the best place it can be used--a reminder of what my kids might need more of at a particular time and how I might offer it to her. She needs to feel loved and unconditionally and on all levels.

The implications of knowing a person's love language could be deep manipulation, which is a bit unfortunate. Fortunately, I think my partnership would never resort to that, which I hope will carry over to my daughter and any future littles. I appreciate the pointing out of how one must have a solid partnership and other good adult relationships in order to model and pass on good feelings and behavior. And I think it's important to process anger and upset situations wisely.

But I find the pigeonholing a bit silly.

"The wonderful thing about human relationships is that they are not static. The potential for making them better is always present."
This book was wonderful! I thought it was the most helpful "parenting" book I've read yet. While a few of the examples were really extreme, most of them were great. It was so informative and eye-opening to me to read about the 5 love languages with my children in mind. It was also a great refresher for me since I read the original 5 Love Languages book back in college. I'd recommend this book to all parents with children of any age, and grandparents too! I'm glad I read it. I want my husband to read it too. Now just to apply what I've learned...

It was okay. It's showing its age, it was probably revolutionary for its time, but the "multiple intelligences/loves/conversation styles" thing is just a model; don't get too attracted to it. I read the previous book Five Love Languages - this sort of feels like a cash grab after the success of the earlier book.

Eventually I got tired of the "Junior was acting out and was terrible and was burning orphanages down, but then I started saying nice things to him and now he's an A student". Real kids aren't this easy.

"ما حدث قد حدث، ولا يوجد الكثير مما نستطيع أن نفعله بشأنه الآن"
فالفرص لا تزال موجودة، والشيء الرائع في العلاقات الإنسانية هو أنها ليست ثابته، واحتمالية جعلها افضل دائماً موجودة.

If you follow the Nas Daily page on Facebook, you might have seen a video he recently posted on various love languages. Unfortunately, the source of his idea was this book which he only showed for barely a second on the screen and didn't even mention by name.
I very rarely read self-help books. I can't digest the platitudes being thrown around. One big exception to this rule has been the 'The Five Love Languages' series. Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell have worked a simple idea in such a brilliant way, I wonder why this book is not more popularly known. I have read The Five Love Languages of Children, and am now midway through the first book, 'The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts'. (Yeah, I know, I'm going the other way around: pehle bacchhe, phir patidev!