And the ideological lines get moved back in the sand just a little bit further with the not unexpected announcement that ANY discipline amounts to a breach of children's rights.
The authority for such pronouncements are made citing the bible of the the left, the "United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child". Supported by the "NZ National Curriculum", for the slam dunk.
And super-nanny, the new age reality parenting program comes under fire for being effective.
Recall from the s59 debates that a smack equates to child abuse, and now we are told that putting a child in a "time-out" chair for hitting other children amounts to this horrendous word called "punishment."
Note the preference for the word "punishment" over "discipline". Discipline is verboten in these conversations.
The article goes on to say that the way to handle kids hitting other kids is not to "punish" them, but to "communicate" with them.
I suppose asking for a 10 page essay on conflict resolution, in crayon, is the way to go. And preferably, whilst the other child who was hit looks on. It would be important for them to see that hitting does not result in punishment, but an offer to communicate. Then they can seek extra communication too.
I argued in the anti-smacking debate that time out was simply psychological torture, an alternative to physical torture. Just as a smack escalated to beating a child to death with a four by two, time out would naturally escalate to locking your children in a dungeon for 24 years. Why not ban both, I asked?
I thought I was being satirical, but obviously not to some people.
For a while now we fought to stop the systematic redefinition of the term smacking to equate to abuse. We lost. Now the target has changed.
"Discipline" will be the next casualty.
Related Link: Children Ruled under a Nanny State a breach of rights
The authority for such pronouncements are made citing the bible of the the left, the "United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child". Supported by the "NZ National Curriculum", for the slam dunk.
And super-nanny, the new age reality parenting program comes under fire for being effective.
Recall from the s59 debates that a smack equates to child abuse, and now we are told that putting a child in a "time-out" chair for hitting other children amounts to this horrendous word called "punishment."
Note the preference for the word "punishment" over "discipline". Discipline is verboten in these conversations.
The article goes on to say that the way to handle kids hitting other kids is not to "punish" them, but to "communicate" with them.
I suppose asking for a 10 page essay on conflict resolution, in crayon, is the way to go. And preferably, whilst the other child who was hit looks on. It would be important for them to see that hitting does not result in punishment, but an offer to communicate. Then they can seek extra communication too.
I argued in the anti-smacking debate that time out was simply psychological torture, an alternative to physical torture. Just as a smack escalated to beating a child to death with a four by two, time out would naturally escalate to locking your children in a dungeon for 24 years. Why not ban both, I asked?
I thought I was being satirical, but obviously not to some people.
For a while now we fought to stop the systematic redefinition of the term smacking to equate to abuse. We lost. Now the target has changed.
"Discipline" will be the next casualty.
Related Link: Children Ruled under a Nanny State a breach of rights