“You want to be comfortable, so you scramble for ground, and often that is blaming someone else, attacking someone else… and in the attempt to get some ground under their feet, people steal, people lie, people kill, and people even torture.… Read the rest
We love finding commonality with government agencies, perhaps we are truly entering a golden age!
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention files this under parenting “essentials“:
The CDC also recommends “For young children, focus on only two or three of the most important rules at any one time.”… Read the rest
Recall that it was just Dec 2018 that the American Academy of Pediatrics finally recommended that parents stop spanking altogether.
Which do you suppose will change next: our culture; or our laws? How many more years until we can confidently call “spanking” by its real name?… Read the rest
… Read the restYour energy can be devoted far more productively to collaborating with your child on solutions to the problems that are causing challenging episodes than in sticking with strategies that may actually have made things worse and haven’t led to durable improvement… You and your child are going to be allies, not adversaries.
Using force or fraud to take life is murder. To take liberty is slavery. And to take property is theft… Using government force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth and typically results in unintended, perverse consequences. – Ken Schoolland, President of Liberty International… Read the rest
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… Read the restA huge first step in a movement to promote the civil rights of children is to show people the evidence that children are happier, learn more, safer, and better off… ” says Dr. Gray.
I have the utmost respect for Dr.
What’s this? A law that protects individual rights to life and liberty? How quaint!
Mount Pleasant, SC (WCBD) – In South Carolina, Lawmakers are looking at a âFree Range Parenting Billâ.
The 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) reminds us that children are full human beings in their own right
That’s right. In 1989 the UN felt the need to “remind” people that children are humans. Nineteen eighty nine.… Read the rest
This thoroughly-researched article comes from Peter W. Adler, the Legal Advisor for Attorneys for the Rights of the Child and appears in the Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest | Vol 16 | No. 3
We look to such groups for guidance in building a case for the rights of children.… Read the rest
The only cases in which consequences imposed by force are called for (other than to immediately save life, limb, and liberty) is, with children as with adults, when in a proportional and restitutional response to force initiated by the child.
Simple!… Read the rest