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I stayed quiet about smacking last week and this is why...

25/10/2017

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A guest blog from Holly Heather of Calm Birth, Calm Parenting.
I stayed quiet last week whilst the smacking debate was raging through social media. 
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Fundamentally I agree with Scotland's decision to make smacking illegal. I don't think it is ever the right choice for discipline. I don't think it is a good parenting tool. 


I agree with all the arguments that hitting adults is classed as assault and abuse, and so should hitting children. 

I agree that there are a million other things we can do instead of using violence towards our children. 

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Five problems with #MeToo and the solution

21/10/2017

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It’s been an intense week and a bit of a roundabout for me. I started out seeing #metoo and wanting to join the voices. I wanted to stand up for all the silenced women and be brave enough to say I too had been through, and survived sexual violence. I wanted for the world to understand what I have always known ...
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 that “me too” can be said by every female from the age of about 10 upwards. Either in some small (it’s never that small), everyday way or on a terrifying sliding scale to extremely devastating sexual violence, sometimes repeatedly. But as I raised my voice, it became oh so clear that there was a problem, and soon that became more than one. These need addressing and a solution is a must:

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“What are we doing to our children?” - Good question…

13/10/2017

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(A response to the telegraph article by Hilary French dated 10th October 2017)
Whilst I don't disagree that technology and social media have a part to play in teenage mental health, I love how it's so easy to blame these simple things for the issues young people are facing today. The society we have created for them, including excessive use of social media is a problem but whilst the media and the government have us focused on how the “evil” technology is damaging our teenagers, we are happily distracted from looking at government policy, the education system and common parenting practice and advice as a potential cause.​​
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