Table of ContentsPrevious – Section Five – Chapter 25 – “Childhood: The Unexplored Source of Knowledge” by Alice Miller 26 Why Do We Hurt Our Children? by James Kimmell As a psychologist who specialized in working with emotionally disturbed children, and as a person who has a special fondness for children, it is extremely troublesome…
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Chapter 25 – Childhood: The Unexplored Source of Knowledge
Table of ContentsPrevious – Section Five – Chapter 24 – “Natural Born Bullies” by Robin Grille 25 Childhood: The Unexplored Source of Knowledge by Alice Miller Probably ever since civilization began, people have been debating about how Evil came into the world and what we can do to combat it. There has always been a…
Chapter 24 – Natural Born Bullies
Table of ContentsPrevious – Unschooling Resources 24 Natural Born Bullies by Robin Grille The media attention given recently to the phenomenon of bullying in schools, is truly a cause for celebration. Finally our world has begun to take seriously the plight of children: the most powerless sector of the community. Initiatives under way in schools…
The Bible, the Rod, and Spanking Children
I’ve finished a heavy perusal of a book on what many Christians have misinterpreted as a defense and admonishment of the spanking of children in the Old Testament of the Bible, by Samuel Martin. He looks at the original text and Hebrew scholarship to easily conclude that the OT and Proverbs is not telling us to…
Everything Voluntary – Parenting Resources
Table of ContentsPrevious – Section Five – Chapter 30 – “Born to Explore” by Missy Willis Parenting Resources Books Unconditional Parenting, by Alfie Kohn“One basic need all children have, Kohn argues, is to be loved unconditionally, to know that they will be accepted even if they screw up or fall short. Yet conventional approaches to…
Spanking Lucy
Thought I’d share:
Re: The Case Against Time-out
We’ve stopped punishing our kids with time-outs or spankings. We’ve stopped punishing them completely. Instead, we meet their needs, as Dr. Haiman lays out. I know parents that have kids, and the only reason, it seems, they had them was to decorate their life. When their children get “nasty”, they get nastier. It’s a disgusting…
Spanking as Punishment
A friend linked to this Australian study showing that most parents still spank their kids. I’m not surprised by this at all. For me, and I’d like to think most parents, you feel bad when you spank, but you do it because you think you have to, that it’s the only way to raise a…
Origin of Everything-Voluntary
Post by Skyler J. Collins. Alright so, I’ve started this website and listed out the topics I’d like it to cover, all really without any explanation of how they relate or why I believe they’re all important. Let’s do that. Once-upon-a-time, I was what I consider now to be a Socialist-Democrat. I was a “teenager”…