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batskeetsApparently, now it's somehow okay to treat tantrum-throwing children the way we treat criminals: Get The Kiddie-Cuffs, or Police State Pedagogy.
I get freaked out when I read this sort of thing. Will my kids be hauled out of school in handcuffs for throwing a tantrum over a broken toy or a dropped ice cream cone? The experience of being publicly arrested can be humiliating enough for an adult, but a young child who's clearly still developing likely has no idea how to even process that kind of experience.
These are all normal and minor things that kids might do as they're developing, and they certainly don't merit a police record. Is this the government's attempt at badgering children into complete obedience, so they can grow into completely obedient and unquestioning adults? Makes you wonder.
Anyhoo, it has been an exhausting week, and my stomach has been upping and downing right along with it. Jeeesh. We did go running and also went to Borders last night, though, and I did some very handy reading about advertising concepts, copywriting and layout. There were a lot of issues in it that applied mainly to print-based ads, but there was some interesting stuff, nonetheless.
Hopefully taking pictures tomorrow, and going to the gymnastics place with Nathan, Colin, et. al. to do some big tricks! If I don't aerial at least once before Monday, I'll be a sad panda. (Seriously. I am thiiiiiis close!)
I get freaked out when I read this sort of thing. Will my kids be hauled out of school in handcuffs for throwing a tantrum over a broken toy or a dropped ice cream cone? The experience of being publicly arrested can be humiliating enough for an adult, but a young child who's clearly still developing likely has no idea how to even process that kind of experience.
These are all normal and minor things that kids might do as they're developing, and they certainly don't merit a police record. Is this the government's attempt at badgering children into complete obedience, so they can grow into completely obedient and unquestioning adults? Makes you wonder.
Anyhoo, it has been an exhausting week, and my stomach has been upping and downing right along with it. Jeeesh. We did go running and also went to Borders last night, though, and I did some very handy reading about advertising concepts, copywriting and layout. There were a lot of issues in it that applied mainly to print-based ads, but there was some interesting stuff, nonetheless.
Hopefully taking pictures tomorrow, and going to the gymnastics place with Nathan, Colin, et. al. to do some big tricks! If I don't aerial at least once before Monday, I'll be a sad panda. (Seriously. I am thiiiiiis close!)
