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Reviewer gives 5 stars to This Hurts Me More Than It Hurts You: In Words and Pictures Children Share How Spanking Hurts and What to Do Instead.

http://breathepeacefully.com/Breathe_Peacefully/Childrens_Voices_for_Nonviolent_Discipline.html

Author Seeks Nationwide Ban On Public School Paddling

Our friends over at MEDIA CONNECT decided to tell the world out our new book, see what they have to say, as well as our Q&A session.

Author Seeks Nationwide Ban On Public School Paddling

Breaking the Paddle book launch party.

A book launch party for Breaking the Paddle: Ending School Corporal Punishment was held October 30th at the Audubon Center in Columbus Ohio. Seventy guests attended and fifty books raced off the shelf!

Bob Fathman told his story about his daughter’s paddling.

A restaurant gift card raffle was enjoyed by guests.

Guests signed in on paddles just as many children are made to do after having been paddled.

Here are interesting You Tube videos on physical punishment of children. All of them involve voices of children and youth.

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.

BREAKING THE PADDLE: ENDING SCHOOL CORPORAL PUNISHMENT

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.