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Have you used physical punishment on your child?
No one really enjoys using physical punishment on their children¹ but many of us assume because our parents used some form of physical punishment on us, such as spanking², that this is a necessary, normal and even productive way of rearing a child. Scientific evidence³ has clearly shown that children who are physically punished even mildly:
-        Tend to have a lower IQ and are less able to reason effectively.
-        Have a poorer relationship with their parents than those who are reared non-aggressively.
-        Are more likely to resort to violence as a means of solving problems and even become chronically defiant.
-        Are more likely to smoke and twice as likely develop alcohol/drug addictions.
-        Are more likely to develop anxiety disorders and depression and show symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
-        Are more likely to display anti-social behaviour and abuse their spouse or children later in life.
The use of aggression on the young gains immediate compliance but results in more aggressive children prone to delinquency, anti-social behaviour and crime. The consequences are dose dependent but reduce once physical punishment stops!
THERE IS HOPE FOR ALL OUR CHILDREN!

¹ While many of parents justify spanking, 85% say they would rather not if there was an alternative.
² 93% of studies on spanking agree It is harmful to children. This has been called "an almost unheard of consensus"
³ A list of studies can be found here: http://board.freedomainradio.com/forums/t/32072.aspx

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Alternatives:
Many people think no spanking means no discipline, however, a consistent lack of guidance is the other side of the same coin - both avoid engaging the child with reason.
There is a law against one adult using violence on another and we call it assault. When Sweden passed a law banning parents using corporal punishment most adults did not support it at first, but since then the number of youths committing crimes of theft and property damage have decreased, plus the abuse rate and rate of children going into foster care has gone down to almost zero.
Here are some good sources of information on peaceful parenting:
- www.positive-parents.org
- http://www.child-discipline-with-love.com/
- “How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk.”   
       by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
- “Unconditional Parenting”   by Alfie Kohn
- “Parent Effectiveness Training” by Robert Gordon
Q: Isn't spanking necessary for good behaviour?
A: Children who were not spanked were, on average, the best behaved and had the lowest rates of psychological problems. This has been referred to as "the best kept secret of American child psychology."
Q: "I was spanked and I turned out fine" doesn’t that mean it’s ok?
A: Although you probably did turn out fine smoking only kills a third of long term smokers - why take the same risk with your children? They might not be so lucky - who knows? - Perhaps you may have turned out even better were you not physically punished.
Q: As you can't reason with a 5 year old don't you need to spank them?
A: As you can reason please take account of the evidence that spanking a 5 year old does more harm than good and look into alternatives.

Pedagogy

the main problem with pedagody as it stands is that the main question in force is "how do we get children to do what we want" when in fact the question should be "what do children/young people require in order to flourish and how do we provide them with a learning environemnt that provides those things?"

The present school environment typically does not do that, in fact if you look at the kinds of education that have been tried, the MOST POPULAR type is the LEAST effective.

 

Egad!!! New work on Whoa There Cassanova

God, sometimes I think I love writing plays possibly more than anything else in the world! What will the characters do next? sometimes it's not even up to me!

I am totally stoked with how my work on Whoa There Cassanova turned out tonight, I really have no idea where some of this stuff comes from when I'm in a stream of consciousness. Every time I return to a work I start so slow and doggedly and feel like I have to force myself, then I get into deeper and deeper into the zone and love it so much I have to wonder why I resist working on it so hard. What fears stand in the way?

So many unexpected turns,so many moments when I think...this isn't the way I want or was expecting it to go, I don't know if I'm going to be able to include this but... fuck it - I'll write it anyway and if I don't like it I don't need to use it, I can go back and change it... many of them end up being the best parts.

I spend so much time avoiding working on things, depite the fact that when I do I enjoy it more than anything else, but then, by the same token,if I hadn't been procrastinating on it for so long it would have turned out completely different from how it is...

...and then again, on some level there's the impulse towards feeling it turns out how it is "meant to be," as though there were some platonic form of my play that I was trying to piece together like a jigsaw, rather than creating something entirely knew... even if there are errors in places or bits that I'm not too sure about, when I finally get round to changing them to something I'm satisfied with at some point I'm like... yep! that's it! now it's "right," that's how it's "meant to be" ... interesting how making art can more respemble trying to complete a jigsaw at times, bringing all your strands of thought together so they click into something cogent...

That's why I said "it's as hard for an artist to be an atheist as it is for a scientist to believe in god"
Not out of any impulse relating to a supreme being, but more the phenomenon of feeling like there's something greater than you at work.

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