April 2010
2 posts
Blogging via iPhone
Probably not the best idea to blog from an iPhone…creates lots of typos
Alfie Kohn
I went to hear a speaker last night, Alfie Kohn, who talked about punishments and rewards with children. Basically he says that both punishments and rewards are ways of doing something TO a child in order to get them to comply and this comes with a cost.
Punishments are counter-productive because:
-It makes the child angry and gives him/her the desire to get even
-It teaches power
-It eventually...
February 2010
1 post
January 2010
1 post
I am now here in blog land for Linds….interesting world.