Punishment vs. Discipline vs. Natural Consequences: Which Best Trains Children? Punishment vs. Discipline vs. Natural Consequences: Which Best Trains Children? Punishment vs. The benefits of growing up with an older sibling that you respect continues after she flies the coop, and can even ripen with age — especially if you're fortunate enough to parent alongside her. My older sister is 2.5 years wiser than me. A practice we borrowed from them is incorporating the word "consequence" into our disciplinary lexicon when warning our children, following through on a warning, and debriefing them after the storm. These and other terms can work, but many are juvenile, playing at a kid's level rather than pulling him or her upward. Three Kinds of Consequences We like consequence for its three distinct connotations. 1. In the Christian framework from which my wife and I parent, it's important we teach our kids that the consequence of everyone's wrongdoing is that all deserve punishment from a holy and just God (Romans 3:23, 6:23). 2.
Rewriting History In Minnesota The Dakota uprising of 1862 is one of the major events in Minnesota’s history. It began with a series of spree killings by young Dakotas and grew into a slaughter that extended up and down the Minnesota River. Hundreds of white men, women and children were massacred by the Dakota, who descended on their homes without warning and slaughtered the whites without mercy. Minnesotans organized a militia to resist the Indian attacks, and President Lincoln sent a detachment of Union soldiers who finally assisted in putting down the rebellion. At the end of the war, Union soldiers held over 1,000 Dakota prisoners. Based on his review, Lincoln commuted the sentences of all but 38 of the Indians. On December 26, 1862, the 38 convicted murderers and rapists were hanged in Mankato, Minnesota, the largest such execution in American history. Scott and I wrote an article about this episode in the Minneapolis Star Tribune in 1998, and I wrote about it on Power Line four years later.
Tinnitus and Chronic Pain Share a Common Brain Dysfunction Long after damage has occurred to a person’s hearing, some people still experience persistent tinnitus—the perception of a buzzing, ringing, or hissing sound—that can’t be accounted for by actual sounds. Remarkably, this phenomenon is very similar to bouts of chronic pain that persist after an injury has healed—and sometimes without the precursor of an injury. In a normally functioning brain, neural structures such as the nucleus accumbens, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and the anterior cingulate cortex act as “gatekeepers” to control noise, pain, and emotional signals and keep them from getting dysfunctional. Strikingly, says Rauschecker, the brains of people who suffer from tinnitus have similar, measurable neural activity to those who suffer from chronic pain. “In tinnitus, the sound comes from the structures like the auditory cortex. Even more intriguing is the fact that those who suffer tinnitus or chronic pain also often suffer from depression or anxiety, says Rauschecker.
When the FBI Went After 'Mad' Magazine In a memo dated November 30, 1957, an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation identified as “A. Jones” raised an issue of critical importance: "Several complaints to the Bureau have been made concerning the 'Mad' comic book [sic], which at one time presented the horror of war to readers." Attached to the document were pages taken from a recent issue of Mad that featured a tongue-in-cheek game about draft dodging. Players who earned such status were advised to write to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and request a membership card certifying themselves as a “full-fledged draft dodger.” At least three readers, the agent reported, did exactly that. Mad, of course, was the wildly popular satirical magazine that was reaching upwards of a million readers every other month. The memo got several facts incorrect: Mad had switched from a comic book to a magazine format in 1955, and it was Gaines’ E.C. Less than a week later, the Feds entered the hallowed hallways patrolled by Alfred E. Poor A.
9 Facts About Rocky Mountain National Park Rocky Mountain National Park was officially dedicated on September 4, 1915, making it America's tenth and highest elevation national park. With a quarter of the land located above the tree line, the alpine wilderness of the Rockies draws 3 million visitors a year. Here are a few facts about the Colorado wonder. Enos Mills is considered the “Father of Rocky Mountain National Park.” The 30 mile-long Continental Divide Scenic Trail is one of the park's biggest draws. In 1917, the Denver Post documented the story of Agnes Lowe, a college student who was going to live in the park’s forests as a “modern Eve” for one week. Tom Casey of Taliesin Architects and the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture designed Beaver Meadows Visitor Center, which is the park's headquarters as well as a National Historic Landmark. Esther and Elizabeth Burnell first visited the park’s Estes Park area in 1916.
Frenchman, European, White Man Dominique Venner, The Shock of History: Religion, Memory, Identity, Arktos Media, 2015, 160 pp., $21.00. On May 21, 2013, a Frenchman virtually unknown outside of Europe suddenly burst into the consciousness of racially aware Americans. That day, Dominique Venner walked into the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris and shot himself in the head. As he explained in his suicide note, he took his own life as an act of sovereignty–of control over his own destiny–and in protest against what his beloved France had become: a husk of a once-great nation, whose rulers submitted to American dominance, celebrated a decades-long invasion by unassimilable foreigners, and had legalized homosexual marriage. Venner was a political activist and also a prominent historian. Venner had two great advantages as a historian: He did not just study history, he participated in it. Dominique Venner was born in 1935 and joined the French army the first day he became eligible: his 18th birthday. Dominique Venner Ernst Jünger
The Ottoman Endgame by Sean McMeekin review – the breakup of an empire For the historian of the first world war, the Ottoman theatre is a blur of movement compared to the attrition of the western front. Its leading commanders might race off to contest Baku and entirely miss the significance of events in the Balkans, while the diffuse nature of operations tended to encourage initiative, not groupthink. The war of the Ottoman succession, as Sean McMeekin calls it, was furthermore of real consequence, breaking up an empire that had stifled community hatreds, and whose absence the millions who have fled sectarian conflict in our age may rue. McMeekin is an old-fashioned researcher who draws his conclusions on the basis of the documentary record. In the case of a conflict between Ottoman Turkey and Germany on one side, and Russia, Britain and France on the other, and involving Arabs, Armenians and Greeks, this necessitates linguistic talent and historical nous of a high order. Enver could not resist making a lunge for the oilfields of Baku.
NATIVE WAYS: Tsenacommacah Tsenacommacah is the native name for the land around and of which Jamestown, Virginia, is a part. Here are two reviews of books written in recent times about this area and its history: Natalie A. View Larger Map View Larger Map The Newest New World by Natalie A. Books Reviewed: Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet, eds. James Horn. It is easy to imagine that many American historians will feel an urge either to shrug their shoulders or to roll their eyes when hearing of the publication of two new books with "Jamestown" in their titles. James Horn seizes the reader's attention within the opening lines of A Land as God Made It. From this arresting opening, Horn moves on to examine the principal players and events that led to and followed the arrival of the small English fleet in 1607. There are some small ways in which this book might have been made still more valuable. The first section, "Reading Encounters," covers the material most obviously linked to the Jamestown settlement. Endnotes 1.
NATIVE WAYS: Suisunes Entire tribe commits suicide during battle with Spaniards History by Kris Delaplane Conti Stone Age people were the first inhabitants of Solano County. Telling the story of these native people is riddled with uncertainties as nothing was ever chronicled. How many Patwins inhabited the section Solano County between what is now Suisun, Vacaville and Putah Creek? The relations between tribes were generally good and trade routes were well established with Indian tribes farther away. When clashes would break out, it was “take no prisoners” and women suffered the same fate as the men. Most accountings show that each tribal village consisted of 100 people; nevertheless, at least one account says 1,500. No on-site sketches were made, but it is believed that the Patwins of this region lived in conical-shaped huts made of tule thatch. For social gatherings there was a sweathouse for the men. Food was plentiful; the diet varied. (Here’s a recipe for acorn mush: Shell dry acorns.