Editorial Review
Available for the first time in paperback.
Teachers often find themselves facing a variety of classroom situations never covered in initial training. This valuable resource helps teachers increase skills, enhance professional development and maximize classroom learning time.
Discover why Love and Logic works in the school environment and understand the psychological reasons for its effectiveness.
Jim Fay and David Funk's truly positive approach and time-tested ideas and strategies will empower teachers to effectively manage classroom dynamics while bringing the joy back to teaching.
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Customer Reviews
Manipluation in disguise 
2008-05-23
This book is entirely about how to manipulate and control your students without them realizing it. The book doesn't seem to address getting to the root of the problem or listening to students. The only this mentioned was how to get students to do what is expected. The first pages tell of a principal who ignores a student until he confesses to having stolen from a teacher. The student just asks to apologize for the deed, but no one ever bothers to find out why he did it in the first place. Another suggestion for showing "empathy" was that a father told his daughter that she must feel horrible getting such horrible grades and that he couldn't possibly make her feel worse by pointing out she was failing. Then he told her that she would end up repeating school, but hopefully her friends wouldn't "dump" her because she was behind them. First of all this is not empathy, empathy is being able to understand what someone is going through. This involves having felt the same way. The father obviously hadn't and used his mock empathy to make her feel stupid and worse than she already did. He never got to the root of the problem, why her grades are bad, and she lost trust in him as well. What good did this do. If she gets better grades, why is she doing it, so she will be smarter, to show her father, or to stay with her friends. What if they needed to move away and she no longer had these friends anyway. What would be her motivation to get better grades then.
Everything in this book was about finding ways to control and manipulate your classroom. The punishments were not logical and I believe the authors are confusing control with love, or at least with conditional love. I am appalled and want to return this book, what a waste of time and money.
My daughter was raised on this program 
2008-05-14
I came in contact with "Love & Logic" when my daughter was around 7. Many friends had heard about this and were talking about the tapes, and passing them around. I hesitated, as I didn't want to listen to long boring speeches about the degradation of youth. My friend said I was in for a treat. Jim Fay is a gifted speaker, he explains, tells, sympathizes, and TEACHES with a great sense of humor! I love listening to him. When he came to our town we didn't hesitate to pay to hear more about how to help our children learn about the "real world" and how not to punish ourselves at the same time! You actually learn how to discipline children, ( even grown children who come back into your life and home) with dignity and respect. As with any program it's not magic, I've seen friends of mine read and read BUT NEVER APPLY what they learned, like LETTING A CHILD ACTUALLY SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS ACTIONS!!!! WOW doesn't that sound like LOGIC? There are many gems in each book, tape, and I recommed them all in every aspect of life. It works, my daughter is balanced, married, and we never suffered outright rebellion, or the "teenage disasters" so common today. Children need structure and this is a great basis.
My Favorite Teaching Tool 2008-05-11
This is my favorite teaching tool of all time. It should be read by every
teacher and parent as well. So many great tips, strategies and techniques
that actually work! Use these principles and children will wait on you to learn! I beleive as an educator, counselor and parent for 30 years that the purpose of education is to empower our children and this book does just that. As an author, I too continue to address this issue on how to empower children to take personal responsibility for creating productive and happy lives. Joanne Scaglione, author:Bully-Proofing Children: A Practical, Hands-On Guide to Stop Bullying and Living The Secret Everyday: My Secret Workbook. Check them out.
A Life Saver 
2008-05-10
I am a special education teacher and this book was very helpful. I feel that ALL children need limits and boundaries but within that need to know that they are loved and cared for. This book provided many suggestions on ways to approach children rationally and calmly in the classroom.
Teaching with Love & Logic just makes sense! 2008-04-21
This is an excellent resource for teachers at any grade level. Love and Logic allows me to go home at the end of the day with very little stress and happy students. It helped our staff to build healthy relationships with parents and students as well as letting the kids own the responsibility for their actions. It is inspiring and easy... this book is a MUST HAVE for every educator's library.
Teaching with Love and Logic 2008-07-15
I have found this classroom behavior management to be very befeficial and extremely logical for today's teachers. We need all the help we can get, and this system helps our students even more.
Just a little at a time... 2008-07-08
I really enjoy the L&L model for classroom management. However, the priciples can seem overwhelming if you try to do them all at once. Follow the writers' advice and just try implementing them one at a time. Just implementing two of the strategies has made my classroom management much better.
Some reviewers mentioned that they found the techniques in L&L to be cold and manipulative. There definitely is some "tough love" in here, and if you try to apply these techniques without TRUE empathy, that is, if you really don't care about the students, you could come off as sarcastic and condescending. Even I couldn't pull off a couple of the things they suggest, like being really sad for a student who's talking in class. I have to admit, I'm usually not feeling sad for a student at that moment... more like really ticked. But the basic ideas of remaining calm, never yelling, and forming quality relationships with your students are strong. Those who think these methods are cold obviously missed all the stuff about how important it is to care about your students and be interested in their lives. As the authors say, kids behave for teachers they love. All the stuff that seems cold and manipulative to you won't seem that way if you're surrounding them with love the rest of the time.
Great for beginning teachers! 2008-06-26
This book is an excellent resource for newbie teachers looking to improve their classroom management/student performance skills. The book is easy to follow and gives great examples. I have also taken a class on the skills discussed in this book, but for the money I think the book is all you need. Highly recommended.
A wealth of ideas 2008-06-08
I haven't finished reading this book and I already have a ton of new ideas. The premise is that you establish a relationship with your students where they can choose for themselves how to behave properly in the classroom. We must be fair with our consequences, hearty in praise, and rather than making demands, we must teach students to make good decisions. They won't have someone to make demands of them their whole lives. Highly recommend it, especially for nervous soon-to-be teachers.
Love and logic works-for sometimes 2008-05-30
Like all educational theories this book is another way for teachers to do classroom management. It does and can work, but it can be a bit harsh toward some students if followed exactly. I would recommend reading it but with an eye toward integrating the ideas that seem "logical" to you and your individual classroom situation.
