Love and Logic
Help children solve their problems on their own.
The Developers:
- Jim Fay: Former psychologist
- Charles Fay: psychiatrist
- Foster W. Cline: school principle
Best Used With:
Love and Logic is used as a teacher tool as well as a parenting system. This system could be used in various degrees at any grade level. Love and Logic can be applied school wide, or in individual classroom. Obviously, a school-wide use of the program would reach more students, but a teacher could easily use it in their own classroom with their students.
Premise:
"Children learn the best lessons when they are given a task and allowed to make their own choices (and fail) when the cost of failure is still small. Children's failures must be coupled with love and empathy from their parents and teachers." (Love and Logic website)
- Sets limits in the classroom without anger
- Manages / Immediately handles disruptive students
- Builds positive student-teacher relationships
- Helps students own and solve their problems
- Diffuses power struggles
Love and Logic is a system that involves giving students choices and asking them questions to allow the teacher to impose consequences without anger or rough demands. Its goal is to place the responsibility for discipline on the student (helping them "own" their behavior) instead of the teacher. This causes the students to thing and problem solve so that they are learning at all times.
Pieces:
- It is the approach of choice
- Rules are developed from the first day of school. When students have a problem they thing about how they have to solve it.
- Students learn that decisions have consequences and they have to think before they react
- Students learn self control
- Administrators get involved with the severity of the action
- Jim Fay: Former psychologist
- Charles Fay: psychiatrist
- Foster W. Cline: school principle
Best Used With:
Love and Logic is used as a teacher tool as well as a parenting system. This system could be used in various degrees at any grade level. Love and Logic can be applied school wide, or in individual classroom. Obviously, a school-wide use of the program would reach more students, but a teacher could easily use it in their own classroom with their students.
Premise:
"Children learn the best lessons when they are given a task and allowed to make their own choices (and fail) when the cost of failure is still small. Children's failures must be coupled with love and empathy from their parents and teachers." (Love and Logic website)
- Sets limits in the classroom without anger
- Manages / Immediately handles disruptive students
- Builds positive student-teacher relationships
- Helps students own and solve their problems
- Diffuses power struggles
Love and Logic is a system that involves giving students choices and asking them questions to allow the teacher to impose consequences without anger or rough demands. Its goal is to place the responsibility for discipline on the student (helping them "own" their behavior) instead of the teacher. This causes the students to thing and problem solve so that they are learning at all times.
Pieces:
- It is the approach of choice
- Rules are developed from the first day of school. When students have a problem they thing about how they have to solve it.
- Students learn that decisions have consequences and they have to think before they react
- Students learn self control
- Administrators get involved with the severity of the action