FIRST LIGHT ON THE SCOURGE OF BULLYING There are Answers to this Blight on Childhood Misery What price a 15-year-old girl’s life? Less than a year’s probation, it seems. This is the sentence recently handed down in the United States on five – yes, five – teenage girls, most two or three years older than […]
BOOK: The Great Discipline Debate
The Great Discipline Debate: Humor in Discipline
TALE OF TWO DONKEYS Humor as Therapy and as a Disciplinary Aid So, why all the jokes in a book about discipline? The control and pastoral care of children and teenagers is a very serious business: so it is ironic that the most effective single weapon in the teacher/parent arsenal is humor. A sharp and […]
The Great Discipline Debate: Guns
BROKEN BODIES – BROKEN HEARTS I’ve had it with this gun nightmare – enough is too much! No more Mr. Nice Guy for me – as a journalist and broadcaster, I make this solemn oath. I will do all in my power to send to Coventry any politician, Australia wide, who supports the ‘fine tuning’, […]
The Great Discipline Debate: Storytelling in Discipline
THE FAIRY TALE OF FASCISM New Stories for a New Millennium Living storytelling, whether for teachers or parents, is the creation of new, apt, morally sound yet exciting images for our children. Dead storytelling is practiced by the creatively indolent, who try to breathe life into the corpses of long-dead folk souls by endlessly regurgitating […]
The Great Discipline Debate: Blame
WHO’S TO BLAME? The Street Kids Scandal – or Tale of a Fallen Angel A liberal interpretation of the name Jasmin is ‘scented night flower’; how tragically ironic then to read that a 15-year-old girl – or prostitute as the press preferred to call her – named Jasmin was found defiled and strangled in a […]
The Great Discipline Debate: The Spoken Word
The Spoken Word “Yet another Ego indulgence is aggressive speech, using the voice as a pair of blazing six guns, threatening, and humiliating the children. If a loud noise is needed to rivet the attention of an obstreperous class, an emotionless banged desk lid is better than a roar. Not too loud or too often […]