Classroom guides model peaceful conflict resolution and work with children to help them use their words to resolve issues with their peers. In most cases, classroom guides use natural and logical consequences to enforce discipline. Natural consequences are those that naturally follow from a choice a child has made. For example, a child may choose to shake a bag of potato chips in the air, resulting in the chips falling on the floor. The natural consequences that follow are the need for the child to clean up the mess on the floor, and the fact the child no longer has potato chips to eat at lunch.
Logical consequences are consequences that follow when there are no clear natural consequences.
For example, a child may choose to push down a second child's sand pile more than once. The first time, the second child may attempt to use her words to ask the first child to stop. The second time, the second child may ask the classroom guide for help to use words to ask the first child to stop. The third time, the classroom guide will take away the first child's privilege to be out doors with class members. This would be the logical consequence of continuing to ignore the class rule of not harming any person's work.