Love and Logic Behavior Management

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Love and Logic Behavior Management

• Jeff Norton
• 3/2/09

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Agenda

• Group activity
• Video
• Components of the method
• Short activity for understanding
• Role Play
• Sharing thoughts/opinions

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Think

• about how a former teacher, or even your
  parents, dealt with disrespect, whining, or other
  bad behavior.

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Video

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vipl6eAxgnuYfeature
  related

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History

• Love and Logic was developed by Jim Fay and Dr.
  Foster W. Cline in 1977
• They have a combined 75 years of working with and
  raising their own children
• Teaches adults how to develop responsible
  children through, empathy, decision making, and
  consequences

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Key Concepts

• Locking in sadness or empathy
• Enforceable Statements
• Sharing control
• Building relationships
• Neutralizing arguing
• The Anticipatory Consequence

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Locking in sadness/empathy

• Establishing that you care about their
  distress/problem
• Sadness over bad decisions

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Enforceable Statements

• Basis for classroom policies
• Only rules/procedures that are able to be carried
  out with consequences should be used
• Should be in positive tone, not You cannot
• You may choose to

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Sharing Control

• Children should be free to make their own
  choices, but under limits
• Safety
• Learning

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Building Relationships

• Motivation
• Improvement
• Lifelong habits

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Neutralizing Arguing

• Brain dead technique
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vI0nTTkHCTVcfeature
  related

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Anticipatory Consequence

• Deal with disruption
• Consequences will happen, but dont worry about
  it until later

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Role Play

• With a partner, one of you assume the role of a
  child and the other the adult
• Come up with a challenging situation that will
  require intervention
• Have the adult deliver that intervention in the
  light of Love and Logic

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Thinking Points

• Is this a useful technique? Why or why not?
• Could you see yourself using this, or parts of
  this, in your classroom?

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References

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vipl6eAxgnuYfeature
  related
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vI0nTTkHCTVcfeature
  related
• www.loveandlogic.com