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  • Probe Uncovers Bad Behavior at Bootcamps for Kids

    A federal probe has evidence of shady marketing practices at "bootcamps" for kids, also known as residential treatment facilities or behavior modification centers. These places, in case you don't know, claim they can "rehabilitate" children and teens with serious behavior problems...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by Kelly Mills on 04-24-2008

  • 5 Dumb Discipline Ideas that are Hopefully History

    Disciplining children can be an honorable estate filled with intentions of instilling civility to stopping that midtown tantrum. Over the years, though, some silly practices have masqueraded as good ideas.. most of which make today's negotiations and time-outs seem like strokes of genius ( the over...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) on 03-09-2008

  • Caught On Tape: Teacher Calls Kids Stupid

    It's been kind of a disturbing couple weeks in education news. What with teachers patting down students and coaches spiking drinks and schools suspending kids for hairstyles , it sort of makes you rethink the whole homeschool idea. And now in Houston, a pre-K teacher is under investigation for calling...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by Kelly Mills on 03-03-2008

  • Teachers Play Bad Cop, Bad Cop

    In a demonstration of the fact that kids have about the same rights as your average "terror suspect," four teachers frisked an entire class of third graders when five dollars turned out to be missing from the classroom. When a substitute teacher discovered an envelope that had contained five...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by Kelly Mills on 02-29-2008

  • Park Bench Parents Not Popular

    Motherhood Uncensored (love the condoms) has a nice rant about those rowdy kids who smack your child and take away their toy while the parents look on benignly. It's a very self-aware send-up, and she has much more rancor for the parents who sit back and mumble, "Now, now, don't hit" than the actual...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by Kelly Mills on 05-06-2007

  • Re: Spanking your child

    If a child attempted to run into a busy street, any reasonable parent would immediately attempt to physically restrain the child for their own safety. 'Restraining' is much different than 'spanking'. I do not consider this type of physical restraint to be the typical 'corporal punishment' (i.e. spanking...
    Posted to Free for All! (Forum) by davidcockrel1 on 05-05-2007

  • Re: Spanking your child

    If, in an ideal world, it is desirable for a parent to have an unlimited supply of patience (which we do not), to reason and explain with a view to the achievement of their child during their developmental years, why is physical punishment desirable or necessary? The problem with spanking is that it...
    Posted to Free for All! (Forum) by davidcockrel1 on 04-27-2007

  • Re: MDC

    Maybe because the mothers at MDC don't support early weaning, CIO and other mainstream forms of bad parenting, like they do here.
    Posted to Free for All! (Forum) by Anonymous on 03-11-2007

  • California Considers A Ban on Spanking

    I don't agree with spanking. Sugar coat it all you want, it's still hitting a child with the intent of using both pain and the fear of pain as a means of punishment. Spanking is one of the few parenting choices that I'll pass judgment on. It's pretty simple - you hit a kid, that makes you the worst kind...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by JasonAvant on 01-19-2007
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