International No-Smacking Day April 30 2004

A Cure For Violence and Domestic Violence simple as ABC

If it's a crime to assault children, or adults for that matter, then the punishment is the crime. Punishment, threats and smacking only get short-term results, if any result at all.

Long term results are gained by the following practice:

1) Inviting children or adults in the decision making process means you learn more about them.

2) Allowing children or adults to come up with an idea about how they can help you solve the problem they may be causing you or others.

a) will ensure they are not being judged by you or others
b) will ensure they are not wrongly blamed by you or others
c) If they think of a way they can help you they will also have an obligation to do what it was they suggested because it was their idea.

Simple as ABC!

Crime Prevention: Justice Action believes that we get more support preventing people going to jail than we do trying to get people out of jail.

No-Smacking Day for Children in NSW

Justice Action will discuss "alternatives to physical punishment" and be available for interviews. For the first time in NSW we will have a Statewide No Smacking Day.

Janet Albrechtsen: Justice's lunchtime views smack of bias

WHEN Family Court Chief Justice Alastair Nicholson took off his judicial robes to attend a charity luncheon last Thursday, he may not have looked like a judge. When His Honour called for laws to treat smacking a child as a criminal assault, he may not have sounded like a judge. But Nicholson is a judge.

Parents given OK to smack kids

Territory Chief Minister Clare Martin said yesterday it was okay to smack children. Ms Martin said she had smacked her own children who are now teenagers. "It is very complex about how you manage your children and there are times, I think, when a smack is appropriate,'' Ms Martin said. She said smacking was okay when "children are very small and it is an issue of safety and you want to get the message across very quickly''. "A smack that doesn't injure your child says very clearly there is a dangerous situation `You are not to do this','' she said.

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No excuse for Indigenous violence: Quartermaine

Should it be a crime to hit your child?

Now that childminders face a ban on striking their charges, some argue that even parents should lose the right to smack. Kamal Ahmed Sunday May 4, 2003

A child is screaming in the aisle of a supermarket. He is four years old. His mother, laden with groceries at the end of a long day at work, is struggling to get to the check-out before the shop closes. She has tried reason. She has used all the 'positive alternatives' recommended in self-help books.

She doesn't want to give the boy the chocolate he is demanding. She has offered blandishments and threatened 'removal of privileges' as the childcare manuals suggest. The boy carries on screaming, louder and louder. He is throwing food around. As his mother starts to queue, the boy makes a bolt for the door and out into the busy street. His mother dashes out and grabs him just before he steps into the road. 'Don't you ever do that again,' she shouts, delivering a smack, sharp and stinging, across the back of the legs.

The child whimpers. And finally stops crying. Similar scenes take place every day across the country, and we all react in different ways. Whether a father of three or a single woman with no children enjoying a drink in the pub, everyone has an opinion on smacking and, by extension, corporal punishment. This week the Government will gingerly enter one of the most sensitive national debates: who has the right to strike a child? And who has the right to tell parents who that person should be? The Guardian Sunday May 4,2003.

Three Slaps Three Bad Lessons

A Mother became a convicted criminal yesterday, for smacking her three-year-old son at a supermarket. She lost control after her son threw a tantrum in the middle of Coles at Dee Why. By No Smack 2 April, 2004.

Valuing children now!

Partial ban on smacking condones other physical punishment, says experts!
NSW legislation banning parents from hitting their children above the neck in effect condones physical punishment, a child abuse conference will hear today.

The 2001 legislation specified where a child could legally be hit, which only perpetuates the view that physical punishment is normal and a parent's right, Bernadette Saunders, of the Child Abuse and Family Violence Research Unit at Monash University, says.

Raising Good Kids Without Hitting

If we are ever to turn toward a kindlier society and a safer world, a revulsion against the physical punishment of children would be a good place to start. - Dr. Benjamin Spock

Tool Kit pdf for International Participants in SpankOut Day April 30th

JOIN us in raising our voices on behalf of non-violence against children!

What is SpankOut Day?

SpankOut Day was initiated in the US in l998 to give widespread attention to the need to end corporal punishment of children. EPOCH-USA (End Physical Punishment of Children) sponsors SpankOut Day USA.

On SpankOut Day, we commend parents who use non-violent discipline. We ask other parents to refrain from hitting on this day and seek alternative methods of discipline through reading, reflection and through programs which may be available in their communities.

We ask NGO's to conduct informational programs or campaigns on that date to help educate parents and other caretakers of children about the effects of corporal punishment and alternatives. In other countries the April 30th observance might be more appropriately called No-Hitting Day or No-Smacking Day.

In 2001, child advocates in a few countries asked to participate in SpankOut Day. We decided to issue an open invitation to child advocates and organizations in all countries to join us on this April 30th observance so that we can raise our voices on behalf of non-violence against children!

Here's why we need an international no-hitting day for children:

"Spanking, smacking, beating children is a dangerous lesson in bad behaviour.

Children, like the rest of us, have a right not to be hit or humiliated.

Most parents who hit their children deeply regret it.

Smacking hurts children - and not just physically.

The aim of a no-hitting day is to get parents to stop and to think about it; to recognise that there are many positive and non-violent ways to encourage the behaviour they want from their children; and to realise they never need to hit a child again."

Peter Newell, Joint Co-ordinator of the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children, London, England.

First International No-Smacking Day for Tasmania - The Child Friendly State Launch April 30th

This day has been celebrated overseas and now it is Tasmania's turn to follow international best practice and show our children and young people that we do value them. We would like to invite all children, young people, families, members of the community and workers to celebrate this day Statewide, in whatever way they wish.

International "no corporal punishment" day promoted by EPOCH-USA

"SpankOut Day" April 30 was initiated in the US in 1998 to give widespread attention to the need to end corporal punishment of children. EPOCH-USA (End Physical Punishment of Children) sponsors SpankOut Day USA. Co-Chair Nadine Block says:

"On SpankOut Day, we commend parents who use non-violent discipline. We ask other parents to refrain from hitting on this day and seek alternative methods of discipline through reading, reflection and through programs which may be available in their communities.

"We ask NGO's to conduct informational programs or campaigns on that date to help educate parents and other caretakers of children about the effects of corporal punishment and alternatives. In other countries the April 30th observance might be more appropriately called No-Hitting Day or No-Smacking Day.

"In 2001, child advocates in a few other countries asked to participate in SpankOut Day. So we decided to issue an open invitation to child advocates and organizations in all countries to join us on this April 30th observance so that we can raise our voices on behalf of non-violence against children!".

End Corporal Punishment

"It is mind-boggling that the belief in corporal punishment as a teaching aid has become so entrenched. One cannot but compare people who believe in it with members of the Flat Earth Society.

Evidence indicating the detrimental effects of corporal punishment is as indisputable as that indicating that the earth is round. The continued use of corporal punishment is indicative of a psychological and educational illiteracy of alarming proportions".

Len Holdstock, 'Education for a new nation', Africa Transpersonal Association, 1987.

Minister defends actions to stop Indigenous domestic violence

Indigenous Affairs Minister Senator Amanda Vanstone says the Labor Party should do more than simply attack the Federal Government's attempts to prevent domestic violence in Indigenous communities.

Federal Opposition Senator Trish Crossin accused the Government of ignoring the issue at the last Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting between Prime Minister John Howard and state and territory leaders.

But Senator Vanstone says the Labor leaders stormed out before the issue could be raised.

The Nagle Report 25 years on

In 1976 the New South Wales Government invited Mr Justice Nagle to head the Royal Commission into NSW Prisons. The Royal CommissionÕs Report was tabled in Parliament in March 1978.

Sentencing: Violent crime and practical outcomes

Children can be classically conditioned in violent homes to be violent that's why we need to bring awareness to those families about short term results that don't teach good lessons like smacking children on the run into obedience or for wrong-doing.

A very bad lesson that leads to violence. Someone who loves you belts you so the lesson is deeply conditioned into the child's experience as a way of solving a problem, which it's not.

NSW legislation banning parents from hitting their children above the neck in effect condones physical punishment.

Brett Collins: Speech to Nagle Symposium 25 years on

The first is that we the prisoners and ex-prisoners are and must be part of the dialogue. This is something we insist on because if the people who are directly affected by the prison system are not part of the solution as we seek reform then I suggest we don't have a solution.

By Gregory Kable 19 April 04

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Valuing children now!
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ATSIC call to smack kids?
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No-Smacking Day for Children in NSW
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Alcohol is just the beginning
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The punishment: Is the 'crime'
The punishment is the crime according to retired chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia Justice Alistair Nicholson. "Smacking a child ought to be seen as assault".

RESTORING TRUE JUSTICE:
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The Seed
Respect, you only get out what you have put in. What about Life Skills, Communication and Conflict Resolution. Evolution, perhaps some children and adults miss the whole or part of the course. I did, and so how surprised do you think I was when I realised my parents missed the course as well. Things like Compromise, Win Win, Empathy, and Love. Invisible energy and other skills like public speaking, how to Relate, Assuming, Blaming, Forgiveness, Freedom and Discrimination. This is how I learned respect. If you don't know what it is then how do you relate?

All the way with (LPK) Love Peace and Kindness: Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama spoke thus; "Love Peace and Kindness, You Can't Break It! "

Communication is a two way street. Threats and punishment solve nothing and serve none. In fact it is against the law in most countries to threaten or punish a person.

By the same token Governments even in Australia see this as a means of controlling the population.

So is it any wonder why other people see threats and punishment as a way to solve problems? And I refer to all the current ideas about conflict resolution and communication skills.

Inviting a person, group, country or class into the decision making process is the only way to resolve conflict.

Or else you don't know about all the possible solutions that may be available for peace.

In fact putting pressure on Sadam yes, but what type of pressure? If people are raising his emotional level and that of his supporters at the cost of lowering his thinking level this means that he will fight to the death.

We need to shift his gears mate and listen to what he has to say, feeding back to him his understanding about our complaints now he has submitted his report to the UN, in the hope that he will listen to us about further complaints, if any.

Pleas for peace ring the globe

Anti-war demonstrators turned out in their hundreds of thousands around the world on Saturday to protest against United States military preparations for an invasion of Iraq.

He submitted his inventory about the weapons and that ought to be good enough for Bush to go back to Saddam to explain the discrepancies, if any, and ask for a compromise.

By Comp Romise 29 Jan 03

THE CHICKEN: Teach our children well!

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Koch's Skoff Channel 7' Sunrise
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The Australian Flag - Burn baby burn
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About Protesting &: Corporate media, Ben English and Rachel Morris who spell their names in capitals? [Yes too right! Ordinary people some protesting against the occupation, murder and genocide of hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children. And you call yourselves reporters? You should hang your head in shame and go get jobs defending those poor innocent people. Shame on you!!!]

Youth Suicide

I would like to suggest firstly that starting at the root in a holistic pattern so that everyone in our community is included and a seed is planted to prevent our youth dying.

Firstly, children in our country have had extraordinary help from loving parents and perhaps for the right reasons. Hopefully the main reason is love.

However, we are all to willing to solve our children's problems, which can lead to children being stunted in problem solving areas.

For instance a child at any age can be asked to solve a problem before we suggest an answer to them. You may find that the child already has the skills required to solve their problem. If that is the case we can allow that child to solve the problem (whether we think there is a better answer or not). Unless the child asked us to help either because they do not have an answer or because they require a better way of solving the problem.

A child of six recently came up to me and said "can you open this box for me Mr?" I said Mm why dont you open it? The child said "ok" and opened the box. Therefore his parents may be opening this box at his request and not allowing the child to solve this simple task. All to willing to help because they love the child and had the time to show the child their way. Or it may simply, take a parent less time to deal with the problem. But did those parents help the child? Perhaps not, if in fact the child already had the skills.The child is not learning here to be affective at solving problems. In fact being road blocked by parents who either think it is either important to help all the time or because they have a better more efficient or suitable idea or because the parent is in a hurry.

The child is now a youth and is sixteen and doesn't make his/her school grade. Devastating to the youth's peer group and perhaps frustrating. Who knows how the youth really accepts the reality? That is why it is so important to know how to solve this loss of esteem for the youth.

The youth now is eighteen and loses his/her lover because the lover has moved on (as we do) and the same situation above may be also a problem (in this example) as well as the last (example) to move on past it by meeting someone else and accepting the loss.

Some things cannot be put to parents to solve for instance a drug dependency that has been hidden from the parents. Or in the last example even the (lover) depending on the culture and attitude of their parents.

Education Seed at the Root

At the root of course there is also a better seed to be planted in Government to prevent youth suicide.

Primarily our education system needs to be overhauled. So that ideas that are in the current literature are available to parents, friends and peers. Because parents somehow in their lives can get busy taking on a lot of commitment to get on in their lives (as we do) without thinking that there may be more efficient and new ideas to use raising children.

For instance Parent Effectiveness Training by Thomas Gordan PhD Importantly is redesigning the curriculum. For instance we need to have paramount those skills required for the children and youth to have maximum efficiency towards growth without taking to many risks and needing less resource to achieve equality. Like life skills, communication and conflict resolution together with John Howard's latest idea to improve Science and Maths. Further equal opportunity to obtain these skills.

The reason for this is that if you only depend on Maths and Science you may achieve more fiscal policy results (income from taxes) but not taken into account the inflation of loss from people who fall by the wayside not communicating or agreeing together Co-operatively to achieve a better result. If I may suggest some 5% in fact who end up either deceased or in jails.

For example try running to many sheep on a small block or farm land achieving an income without accepting that somewhere down the track the land will be worthless (inflation) and must be re purchased. The cost of course now needs to be taken off the income of the sheep to repurchase the land so you did not make as much as you first thought because the land was mismanaged. So how much income would be achieved by using our land efficiently?

A recent example is how much money was needed to be injected into the doctor patient regime whereby doctors who were highly educated still needed to notice that somehow they were not listening or getting the feedback required to solve their patients problems (sickness or ills).

Whether you're from lower, middle or upper class skills are not necessarily available to parents, friends or peers even if you have been to university level of education. Especially if we are all too willing to over help thinking we are doing our best (communicating).

Children need to be encouraged to express themselves, love themselves and communicate effectively and to resolve conflicts in order to form an agreement effectively.

For instance John is constructively feed back his achievements "I am a poet" Peter " I am a dancer". Mary "I am a pastry cook". Peers can suggest constructive criticism likes "John you're doing a great job and you have really tried hard that is so cool."

John can make an agreement and solve lots of problems in order to achieve without being frustrated to the point of wanting to end his life even if he cannot talk about his problem solving with any other person.

John may need less resources in order to achieve his goals and take fewer risks. John has a higher level of self worth and self esteem and sees himself as a dynamic instrument and loves himself. So much so that he would not want to hurt anyone elses feelings because he realises how important he is. Nor does he think he is not important enough to live.

Tantamount is that there is less inflation affecting the root source fiscally or otherwise. Like john who ends up (deceased) or in (jail) that in turn affects the macro level of resource leading to inefficiency. For Australia as a whole, or parents, friends and peers who are busy with their commitments.

We have heard it so many times.That no one had any idea that the deceased had such an enormous problem leading them to commit suicide. Even those so close to the person they loved so much.

By Gregory Kable 8 August 2001