Modern life 'poisoning' childhood

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  1. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    Modern life 'poisoning' childhood
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5337422.stm

    Well well...so much for wanting the best for our children. Have we become so selfish that we wish our children the very worst of what we have to face ourself?

    What is going on with this nonsense that your kid has to be the smartest? prettiest? Best playbacker?

    Why don't we force children to be children instead of adults?
     
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  5. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    nag nag...

    and what do you call them then till the age of 10? Something you can beat up like wives?
     
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  8. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    Go beat your wife.
     
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  10. lightgigantic Banned Banned

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    Things are getting very european

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  11. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    The americans taught us the great value of 'fuck off'!

    We thank you.
     
  12. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    One of the biggest poisons is homework.

    Excerpted from Washington Post 9/12/2006

    As Homework Grows, So Do Arguments Against It

    The nation's leading researcher on homework, Prof. Harris Cooper of Duke University, reports the following findings:
    • Elementary school students get no academic benefit from homework assignments, except those that involve practicing basic skills like reading.
    • Middle-schoolers can benefit from a maximum of 1.5 hours of homework per night.
    • High school students can benefit from not more than 2 hours per night.
    • Exceeding these limits may produce negative results, such as lack of sleep, lack of exercise, loss of interest in the academic process, less time with family, less experience developing social skills, and a general failure to make better sense of the world.
    • Most teachers receive little or no training in crafting homework assignments that advance learning.
    • Lack of consensus on the purpose of homework, such as reviewing, learning new concepts, preparing for tests, inspiring creativity and originality, satisfying bureaucratic standards, or mollifying activist parents--and even on basic rules such as whether it should be graded--results in an inconsistency that confuses and demoralizes some students.
    A history of homework in the U.S.:
    • 1800s: The few children who progressed from grammar school to high school got hours of homework, primarily memorization of material to recite in school.
    • Late 1880s: The Reform Movement persuaded school boards to reduce homework, which was often performed in dim light, on the growing belief that it was harming children's physical and mental health while failing to promote learning.
    • 1900: Influential journalists called homework a "barbarous... national crime." The State of California outlawed homework for children under 15 as reformers recommended sending them out to play in the sunshine.
    • 1940s-50s: More formally trained educators evangelized for assigning homework that was creative and specific to each student's needs.
    • 1950s-60s: The impression that the country had fallen behind after the launch of Sputnik by the USSR in 1957 gave homework a boost.
    • 1980s-90s: The 1983 report "A Nation at Risk" gave new impetus to the reborn pro-homework movement, especially for younger students.
    • Today: There are very few schools that don't give homework. It is mandatory in many school systems.
    In typical American fashion, the pendulum of social "progress" swings wildly to the extremes in both directions before settling on a sensible, practical middle course. Compare to drugs, sexuality, religion, and the labor movement. This pendulum metaphor is apt because the forces of change from academia and from adults with direct experience of recent trends are out of phase with the position of current policy.

    The teachers and students interviewed for this article agreed that:
    • Most homework assignments in the lower grades are busywork.
    • The emphasis on reading assignments in the upper grades improves the value of homework.
    • Assignments that integrate homework with personal experience are the most successful, such as giving a report on an interview with a member or friend of the family.
    • There is no agreement on the purpose of homework.
    • Teachers' educations must be upgraded to include training in assigning homework.
    • Teacher knowledge is often trumped by school boards whose members are often not educators and by parents who are eager to delegate the effort of raising their children to "experts."
     
  13. Roman Banned Banned

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    It's true. Kids were considered pretty tough, too. Now they're fragile little creatures and it sucks when they pass on.

    Back in the day, you just had your women squeeze out a few more whenever any chilluns died.
     
  14. original sine Registered Senior Member

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    It's bad parenting and escapism, not modern life. Though there might be a correlation.
     
  15. sderenzi Banned Banned

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    I think the main comment by Roman is correct. In the older days when your kids would die of starvation or of the plague you would just bimp off a few more and be done with it. If she accidently has a few without both of you desiring it you could merely grind them up in a meat grinder and laugh about it. Now woman are such pussy sluts they want kids all day long, dream about it, and will do anything to have them...

    I think if we got rid of children things would be easier, and of course older adults screwing everything up. I mean if you look at life the only ones causing problems are adults (like 25 an up) and kids (gangs).

    We must kill them all and then we can all fuck around with eachother.
     
  16. Roman Banned Banned

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    Well I'm glad I made sense to an incoherent virginal madman.

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  17. vslayer Registered Senior Member

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    the ones shaping society into a big pussy mess where we cant take peanuts to school, are the ones that grew up back in the days they rave on about the merits of. its probably just a generational thing: your parents are hardasses and you become a pussy, you become a pussy and your children become hardasses. etc, etc, ect.
     
  18. thedevilsreject Registered Senior Abuser Registered Senior Member

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    your a nasty stain on this forum sdrenzi
     
  19. Satyr Banned Banned

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    Here’s another thing poisoning childhood:
    Poison.
     
  20. Nickelodeon Banned Banned

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    Especially childhood poison.
     
  21. Satyr Banned Banned

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    Yes.
    We need more of that.
     
  22. Absane Rocket Surgeon Valued Senior Member

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    Does eating paint chips count? How about washing them down with an ammonia and bleach smoothie?
     
  23. TruthSeeker Fancy Virtual Reality Monkey Valued Senior Member

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    More like AMERICAN, actually...
     

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