The Five Love Languages of Kids with Dr. Gary Chapman
Every kid gives and receives love differently. Understanding how your kids best experience love can transform your relationships with them.
In today’s episode of Carpool Conversations, Amy and Sara sit down with Dr. Gary Chapman—world-renowned author of The 5 Love Languages—as he shares how understanding your kids’ unique love language can strengthen your connection and help them feel truly loved. Listen in as we discover practical ways to speak love into our kids, in the unique ways that they hear, understand, and feel love.
About Dr. Gary Chapman
Gary Chapman, Ph.D.—author, speaker, and counselor—has a passion for people, and for helping them form lasting relationships.Chapman is a well-known marriage counselor and director of marriage seminars. The 5 Love Languages® is one of Chapman’s most popular titles, topping various bestseller charts for years, selling over twenty million copies and has been on the New York Times bestsellers list since 2007. Chapman has been directly involved in real-life family counseling since the beginning of his ministry years, and his nationally-syndicated radio programs air nationally on Moody Radio Network and over 400 affiliate stations.
Timestamps | The Five Love Languages of Kids with Dr. Gary Chapman
(1:00) Meet our guest: Dr. Gary Chapman
(3:09) Dr. Chapman shares his favorite part of the stage of parenting & grand parenting that he is in.
(4:53) No two children are alike.
(6:06) How did The Five Love Languages come to be?
(8:55) Naming & defining all five of the love languages.
(10:58) We can receive love in all 5, but each of us has a primary language.
(13:22) How can this method apply when we’re parenting younger kids?
(13:31) You can discover your kids love language by the time they are 4 years old by just observing their behavior.
(14:03) Speak all five languages to your kids, but give them heavy doses of their specific type.
(14:18) The healthiest adult can receive love and give love in all 5 languages.
(15:05) God Speaks Your Love Language – Dr. Gary Chapman
(16:05) When your kids get to be teenagers, you have to use different “dialects” when speaking their language.
(17:33) Teenagers are “developing logical thought” so they often question things.
(18:55) Having multiple languages just means that you’re bilingual!
(19:27) Choose Greatness: 11 Wise Decisions that Brave Young Men Make – Dr. Gary Chapman & Clarence Shuler
(21:13) How to love a child well that has a different language than you.
(23:19) How to use these Quizzes to discover our kids language and love our kids well.
(25:54) Question of the Week.
Links to Resources:
Book: The Five Love Languages of Children – Dr. Gary Chapman
Book: A Teen’s Guide to the Five Love Languages – Dr. Gary Chapman
Quizzes: The Five Love Languages Quizzes
Book: Things I Wish I’d Known Before We Became Parents – Dr. Gary Chapman
