Violence – Part 3: Understanding Violence

And now comes the question that spawned this entire blog rambling on violence.  Does the “discussion method” make it harder for children to understand violence?  Does it make a child more vulnerable in violent situations? Does it inhibit a person and make it harder for that person to learn certain life lessons?  Does it make [...]

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Violence – Part 2: Doing the Right Thing

My parents’ radical thinking of yesterday is an accepted creed of today.  There are numerous studies out there that say that using violence to teach a kid does not teach them to do something because it is “the right thing to do,” but instead it teaches the kid to just “not get caught doing it.”  [...]

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Violence – Part 1: The Discussion Method

My parents don’t believe in using violence to resolve a problem.  They never hit, smacked, spanked, or swatted us while growing up.  The extent of the violence I experienced growing up was from play wrestling with my sister on my mom’s bed.  My parents never touched me.  When they made the decision to follow this [...]

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It’s the end of the world as we know it

Okay so maybe I am an alarmist, or extremist, or any other ist that warns about the end of the world, but I can’t help but think about it when I read articles like these on a daily basis: An article about Global Warming and the many un-natural disasters our world is going through http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1839281,00.html An article [...]

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