What is Love and Logic?
Jim Fay is cofounder of the Love and Logic and coauthor of the book, 'Teaching with Love and Logic'.
"Children learn the best lessons when they're 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." Jim Fay.
Below are some key points around Love and Logic.
The 2 Rules of Love and Logic:
Rule 1:Adults set firm limits in loving ways without anger, lecture,or threats.
Rule 2:When a child causes a problem the adult responds back in loving ways.
The Delayed/ Anticipated Consequence
The main problem with immediate consequences is that we rarely think of a good enough consequence immediately, which allows the misbehaviour to fade away with the child reflecting and learning from it.
The next time a student misbehaves, say something like, "this is such a sad situation, I'll have to do something about this, but later, not now. Try not to worry for now."
This allows students to think about what they've done and worry about the consequence. It also allows the teacher enough time to think about a good consequence for the behaviour and have a plan for implementing it etc.
Love and Logic has many other classroom management strategies. For more of these see the book, 'Teaching with Love and Logic' by Jim Fay
Below is a video clip of Jim Fay explaining for Love and Logic teaches empathy.