Archive for the ‘Recognizing and respecting children’ Category

Passing on the pain

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

a video of an adult “disciplining” a child with corporal punishment and “boot camp” regimen

Corporal Punishment as experienced by children

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

From “this HURTS ME more than it hurts you”, Nadine Block and Madeleine Y. Gomez, published by the Center for ffective Discipline

The Politics of Love

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

John and George discuss the possibility of a political life based on the recognition that we are all loving beings, no matter how we have been hurt or what we fear.

Ada Edwards:Family influences and corporal punishment of children

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

Deb Shafto and George interview Ada Edwards, activist and 6yr city council person on the influences in her life, and her raising of her own children.

Early childhood education

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

George interviews Deb Shafto, Green Party candidate for Governor in 2010, and retired early childhood education teacher in HISD about the effects of early childhood education and the implications of eliminating it in Texas.

New Beginnings:Welcoming children into the world

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

George and John interview Pat Jones, nurse midwife, Debbie Hull, Doula, and Robert Van Howe, pediatrician, about home births, inducing labor, Cesarean sections, circumcision and generally what children need when they are born to begin life as a loving being without being hurt in the process.