The 5 love languages... for children

Last night I attended a workshop on the 5 love languages for children.

Remember I read the original love languages book a few weeks ago, just making it my 5th book for Feb?

Anyway, I thought it was fabulous.

I'd come across the love languages before and while I had a general idea of why it was a good idea to know yours and your partner's language, the book just added SO MUCH more to my understanding.

• how, within your love language, like with any language, there are dialects
• even if you have an idea of which your main two languages are, how to tell for sure which one is number 1 and which is number 2
• why it's so important that you speak to your partner's love language and more importantly, how you can get along better as a result

Anyway, I'd been trying to go to this workshop for about 6 months (I'm on her newsletter) and in a fit of desperation, I booked (just) me on it and asked D to babysit.

I was the only single person there, aside from 8 other couples, 7 of them husband and wife teams and one set of friends (one of them a very loud woman).

Aside from seriously feeling out (I don't normally) and jealous (because they had babysitters!), I loved it.

I got my money's worth in the first 15 minutes.

This lady charged R160 per person - I would have charged R400 - R500. The information was that valuable.

Interestingly, this lady read the book, was passionate about it, started sharing with fellow mothers at her kids' school. They asked her to do a workshop here and there for friends and friends of friends, and so her business was born.

She now does a number of parenting courses.

I was thinking, "hey, that could be me with Motherstyles" :)

Back to the love languages...

They do say that you'll be able to tell your child's love language for sure by age 5 but that if you watch carefully, you can figure it out before then.

I've mentioned on this blog before that Connor's is quality time and Kendra's is words of affirmation. I now think Kendra's is 1) physical touch and 2) words of affirmation.

There is honestly too much too share so I'll write one more post but for now, do you know what your love language is?

Here you go - take the assessment.

Can you guess what my two love languages are?

Share yours in the comments.

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