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This video “Corporal Punishment in Schools: A Teen Message was produced by an award winning group of students from Shaker Hts. HS in Ohio.
This video has over 100,000 views. It provides images and words from children about spanking.
This video has a cute song sung by a child. It will keep coming back to you.
Every school day, more than one thousand US children are hit on the buttocks with boards called “paddles” for breaking school rules. A quarter of a million school children are paddled annually. Paddling leads to physical injuries of children, psychological problems, alienation from school, and lawsuits by angry parents. Nineteen states allow this punishment, a punishment considered inhumane, ineffective, and archaic in most of the world. Over 100 nations ban it. The book explores and refutes arguments for keeping corporal punishment in schools. It provides step-by-step suggestions for parents who wish to protect their children from this barbaric treatment, and provides tools for advocacy groups to get it banned in local, state and federal arenas. The successful actions of a small group of ordinary citizens in achieving a statewide ban in Ohio in 2009 provides a thread tying the book together. Through the book, the author seeks to accelerate the banning of school corporal punishment (paddling) in US schools through education and legal reform.
“This Hurts Me More Than It Hurts You” is a fascinating look at corporal punishment through the eyes of the child. Part One, as told through the illustrations and words of children, describes how corporal punishment makes them feel. A collection of poignant essays, moving poems and illustrations bring to life the reactions experienced by these children. Emotions such as fear, anger and despair are represented and portrayed in ways that simply aren’t describable in traditional textbooks and journal articles. Part Two is advice directly from the child to those who choose to engage in corporal punishment. The reader is taught about those disciplinary tactics that the child finds effective – establishing consequences, making amends, using reason, and treating with equality among others. Finally, Part Three offers practical resources to parents and professionals, including common questions and answers related to spanking, a list of online resources, recommend readings and information on brochures, handouts and DVDs on child discipline.
In spite of the well-documented detrimental effects of corporal punishment, including its associations with child maltreatment, many families continue to engage in this practice. This book is a timely and poignant resource for parents, professionals and child advocates alike who have an interest in this subject.
“This Hurts Me More Than It Hurts You: In Words and Pictures Children Share How Spanking Hurts and What To Do Instead” is primarily a selected collection of poignant artworks and statements by children about the experience of being physically punished by adults. In this professionally edited and resourced book, the children’s voices are clearly heard. It is divided into three sections: Part One, Spanking Makes Children Feel …, Part Two, What Children Respond To Instead of Spanking, and part Three, Resources for Parents and Professionals Who Work With Families. In addition there are a list of questions and answers on spanking, a list of related web sites, bibliography and other resources relevant to physical punishment and alternatives. “This Hurts Me More Than It Hurts You” is an excellent, innovative contribution that provides a new outlook on an old problem.
This Hurts Me More Than It Hurts You: Children Share in Words and Pictures How Spanking Hurts and What to Do Instead (Center for Effective Discipline)
The message is most effective when presented in children’s own words and art, and that’s what this book does. Almost 50% of parents in this country still use physical violence to discipline their children, and the book shows why they should not.
ISBN 978-0-615-45467-2