Saturday, August 05, 2006

 

Group C - Magazines


Summarise what you learnt about Families in Magazines here!

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Smacking
Physical punishment isn't a form of discipline that allows a child to learn and progress. Kids need rules, boundaries and discipline. But there are effective ways to teach your kids what the limits are without using harsh punishment.
Television
Be the boss of the remote control. The television should stay off during meals. Decide how much TV your kids should watch and which programs are suitable for their age and temperament. Don't let them watch scary programs or watch action movies before bedtime. It over stimulates them.
Naughtiness
The "naughty step" is one of the most effective ways to teach a child about unacceptable behaviour. But follow the steps.
Go down to the child's eye level and warn them that
This article deals with children discipline within a family. Discipline within a family is very important, it teaches children respect in later life. If a child is undisciplined it could prove trouble for them. Children discipline also makes life easier for the parent, many familles are dysfunction due to lack of discipline. Discipline is the first step to a mutual relationship between child and parent.

Become a growth guru
Know what foods/nutrients your children need and why, so you can manage their growth and stand them in good stead for decades to come. Understand why they must have calcium, protein, zinc, iron and energy - and where they get them from.
2. Eat a wide variety of foods
Remember that if you eat well, you'll feel great. Try to include 'superfoods' such as yoghurt, kiwifruit, beans, oats etc. in your regular diet.
3. Eat breakfast
Not only will it give you energy to get through the day (and improve your mood), it will also help stop you snacking on the wrong foods later.
4. No carbs; no go
Don't give up carbs as they are essential for physical and mental energy. Choose good carbs, and eat as many or as few as you need to meet your own requirements.
5. Short bursts of activity
Include lots of short bursts of easy, fun activity in your and your children's daily life to help make the family more active: take the stairs, walk the dog, go for a bike-ride together.
These 5 tips are fundamental in maintaining a healthy family. Most of them include food and eating habits. Exercise and food are the main factor in a kids balanced health, without a good diet they will tire more easily and could possibly put on weight. A healthy family is paramount for a healthy lifestyle which will most definitely improve the overall mood in the household, giving it a new energy and efficientcy.
Marlon!
 
Secrets and lies
The Age, Australia, Saturday essay, Leslie Cannold
November 26, 2005

Upon the birth of a child, men ought to be given the opportunity to give one-time-only non rescindable consent to their acceptance of the rights and responsibilities of fatherhood. "Paternity fraud" implies deceptive women cuckolding men into believing children are biologically theirs. But the truth is more complex, and more human, writes Leslie Cannold.

While the DNA paternity test has been around since the early 1980s, it was not until the mid-1990s that concerns about what fathers' rights activists call "paternity fraud" took flight in Australia. It started with the Child Support (Assessment) Act of 1989, which in effect transformed the age-old definition of a father from the man married to a child's biological mother to the man whose sperm caused the child to be conceived. Designed to compel men to take fiscal responsibility for their children, the new law was lauded by politicians as a boon to both women and children.
Luke’s statement on the sub: men have to take responsibility of their children and there wife. They have to grow up and be a good father and take care of their child.

The divorce law needs to put kid's rights first
The Globe and Mail, Canada's largest national newspaper, By HOWARD IRVING, Wednesday, October 12, 2005 page A23

Amid all the talk of rights for children, one more right needs to be asserted: Each child should have the right to benefit from long awaited and much needed changes to the Federal Divorce Act.
In May, 1997, when the Divorce Act came into effect, the then minister of justice proposed that a joint committee of the House and Senate make recommendations regarding child custody and access. After 55 hearings, and more than a year of study, the committee made 48 recommendations to Parliament, all with an underlying theme: The adversary system as it pertained to the majority of custody and access disputes put families (especially children) at risk. Despite this disturbing conclusion, Bill C-22, created to amend the Divorce Act, still sits on a shelf. Justice Minister Irwin Cotler recently said that the government aims to reintroduce child-custody and access reforms this autumn. It's about time. Correcting the current act is long overdue.
Luke’s statement on the sub: Children should have rights to be with both parents or should be at least be with the parent that they love and enjoys doing different thing with them. Maybe that the children should go with the mum only if the dad has gone to jail or has done something really bad like drugs. If the dad is not in the right shape the mum should go with the mum.




Gay rights, children's rights
Opinion by Margaret Somerville, founding director of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law; author of 'The Ethical Canary: Science, Society, and the Human Spirit'
National Post, July 14, 2005.

As its advocates claim, same-sex marriage will be a powerful public
statement against the discrimination suffered by homosexuals. But it will also affect the fundamental rights of children, a vulnerable group of Canadians with no power to protect themselves at the ballot box. So let me try to speak for them, and put forward the case that accepting same-sex marriage requires that we enact new legislation to protect children's rights.

When limited to the union of a man and a woman, marriage establishes, as the norm, children's right to an identified biological mother and father, and to be reared by them, unless there are good reasons to the contrary. Same-sex marriage, in disconnecting marriage from procreation, compromises this right for all children, not just those brought into same-sex marriages. The new
law, Bill C-38, implements that change by redefining parenthood from natural parenthood to legal parenthood -- from an institution defined by biology, to one defined solely by law.

LUKE
 
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