Love And Logic Essay

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Using Love and Logic as a useful tool in the classroom for having a safe, comfortable, and loving classroom environment. This program is used to help and raise children and adults to be happier, skiller, and empowered when teaching students in their classroom. By using Love, you are helping a student learn and grow through their mistakes. And after, using Logic helps students be able to live with the choices that they have made. It is a way of teaching that puts teachers in control of the classroom, while still teaching children to be responsible and prepare students to be successful. There are a great deal of resources available to educators and parents to use love and logic with children or students. One of the resources for educators was an article about the “misbehavior cycle.” This explains that when a student is misbehaving, and an adult acts in anger or frustrating, the behavior often escalates and the misbehavior cycle begins. Love and Logic is all about using …show more content…

Most often, I try to make sure that I am not acting in a mad or upset manner. I keep my voice calm, and make sure that the student understands I am on their side. An example of this is recently a student was throwing a fit and saying that everyone was being mean to them. He began banging his hands on the bench he was sitting on, and then began to crawl underneath the table. I got down to his level and asked him if I was ever mean to him. He said no, and I explained that is because I care about him. I told him that I was very sorry that he was angry, and that he felt that way but that hiding underneath the table wasn’t going to solve anything. I got him out from underneath the table and got him to take a break. If I had reacted in an angry manner, or yelled, or tried to forcefully remove him the situation would have escalated and not have been resolved in the manner that it was

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