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Ball And Chain To Force Children To Study
You haven't tried everything to get your kids to study until you've tried the Study Ball. The Study Ball is a 21-pound prison-style device that locks onto your child's leg and only unlocks after a predetermined amount of study time has passed. The homework manacles can't be locked for more than four hours, and come with a safety key. The product website states, "Quite often, students who are having problems concentrating tend to get up every ten minutes to watch TV, talk on the phone, take something out of the fridge, and a long list of other distractions. Were they to dedicate all this wasted time to studying, they would optimise their performance and have more free time available. Study Ball helps you study more and more efficiently." Stop Teasing Your Brother Pepper Spray coming soon.
First time someone doesn't get out of a burning building, or tumbles down the stairs will spell the end of this company...
Don't most kids these days have cell phones? I really don't see this being very effective It isn't that hard to move with a 21 pound ball. It would prevent most physical types of activities, but just sitting around or moving the ball to the TV and watching TV really isn't going to be very difficult.
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Utter BS. I was physically punished when I did not do well in school by my mother in the beginning until I became an A student. Later in life I graduated college Magna cum laude and did my Ph.D.
The older I get the more thankful I get to my mother for those lessons.
You can claim other negative effects of corporal punishment later in life, but that particular effect you wrote about is complete nonsense.
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TFA said it costs 75 pounds. Not only would you be a retarded parent for torturing your kid and making him associate studying with confinement, but you would be retarded because even if you wanted to such a stupid thing, you could do it for much, much cheaper.
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From Working Class Hero:
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school,
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool,
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years,
Then they expect you to pick a career,
When you can't really function you're so full of fear...
Entertainment my ass - this is just sad.
Pathological kinda promises Path + Logical - but instead, you get stuck with pathetic.
Surely making the subject fun, interesting would be a better way of encouraging students?
Not really, no. I have a friend who used to teach at the middle school level. She was a good teacher, but there are just a lot of kids who don't care about education, are raised by parents who don't care about education, or come from subcultures that don't care about education. Generally, all three are in play, enforcing one another. There's nothing to be done from the outside about that, and the kids who do break out of the vicious cycle do so mainly through their own efforts, and a few who are just flat out intelligent enough to never get trapped by it. She helped the ones she could.
The ball and chain won't help, and it's only use is in being totally and completely hilarious.
Since the "editors" failed to include a linky to the actual product, here it is: http://www.curiosite.com/scripts/product/enproduct.php?idproducto=19126738
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Let me try and describe this device as if it were a topic of an article at Telegraph.co.uk.
Gun Camera to make people stop killing
To end all gun violence once and for all, guns will be replaced with gun cameras.
Your boss asks you to do the impossible, your mom tortures you to get you to clean up your room, your friends stand you up, your girlfriend cheats on you... instead of taking out your aggression on the first innocent victim you find, we suggest you get one of these 100% harmless guns.
It'll take a picture each time you press the trigger.
Aimat is a very basic, utterly unsophisticated photo camera. It was designed by Franziska Dierschke, a German student at the Bauhaus Academy in Weimar.
Two years ago, she presented it at Desifnmai, a design conference held in Berlin, but it's only now started catching on over the Internet.
It's a pinhole camera, the kind anyone can make at home because they don't require any sort of extensive understanding of photography.
These cameras produce an image using light that passes through a tiny hole.
Any sort of container can be used to make a pinhole camera; all you have to do is drill a hole in it.
And what better way to "shoot" your photos than straight out of a gun?
This camera has no focus, viewfinder, or lenses and makes very interesting photos, with a darkened frame around them like you get with the Lomo.
A camera/toy that will help you reduce tension and also have fun running after your girlfriend, your mother, your boss, and your friends.
Why am I mentioning this?
Because they (Telegraph.co.uk) found the Study Ball at that same site.
IT IS A JOKE ITEM!
Not actually intended as a study device.
You know... like the Periodic Table Shower Curtain.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
First you get " Bull S#!^"
then you get "More of the Same"
and finally it's "Piled higher & Deeper" !
always wondered about double majors...
Way to counter his point there, sport!
There isn't what you might call 'no difference' between the two things. 'Spanking' refers to using force on children strictly disciplinarily, possibly when the child is not yet old enough to understand verbal commands, and especially to stop them from doing things which might actually hurt them (such as playing with power sockets, stovetops, and the like). 'Beating' refers to hurting children because you're drugged up, sadistic, or both.
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The problem is that people try to think of kids as little adults when they are in fact just kids. You can't always reason with a kid.. because they don't have the same ability to weigh options that adults do (I know when I was a kid I sure didn't). A little negative re-enforcement (do something wrong.. get punished) is sometimes the best way.
And I truly believe that kids today have more problems as a result of being treated as fragile ornaments who will be screwed up for the rest of their life if you even look at them in a menacing way.
Dumb conclusion.
My wife was never spanked/beaten/slapped as a child and she was always very well behaved.
My teenage daughter was never spanked/beaten/slapped and is very very well behaved, known for her good discipline in school and is a model student and person.
Why do you assume that violence makes people better behaved? There are many ways of instilling discipline w/o the use of violence of any sort (yes: even spanking). That is why I applaud that kids don't get spanked in school anymore.
There are societies that believe that you cannot have discipline if you don't have a strong autocratic police society. But most civilized countries today disagree w/such notions. If such things apply at the level of society why do we assume that we need a strong autocratic police society at home?!
Children will behave if they are rewarded for good behavior and punished for bad behavior (just like adults). But such punishment does not need to include spanking. Other techniques like depriving them of what they want, making them take a "timeout" or stay for a while in their room to cool off.. work quite fine. And in my experience as a parent, such disciplinary actions are generally only necessary during the first few years and then the kid develops enough self-control to not get into trouble as a habit.
To me corporal punishment is the tell-tale mark of a parent w/no better ideas: uncreative, unthinking and often incompetent.
By the way I was "spanked" by my parents as I grew up.. and no.. I was NOT well behaved AT ALL.
I'm glad my wife had the experience she had (a very capable mother). This has allowed us to have a much happier and fear free family.
Are you kidding? When I think back to all the times that I felt like I was literally going to suffocate under the weight of my own guilt... Oh, memories.
I was never punished physically. My parents didn't see the point in that, even when it's "mock beating", aka spanking, which doesn't really cause any significant physical pain. Guilt, disapproving and disgusted looks, cold attitude - these were their tools. And yes, for a kid these things can hurt more than any physical punishment. But there's another side to it - the feeling of relief you get once you finally do the "right" thing. As I said, they never spanked me as punishment (only for fun... I've said too much), so I don't have anything to compare to, but I'll never forget the relief and joy I felt when I made the choice to do what I knew was the right thing to do, and felt their approval and acceptance. The point I'm trying to make is that while spanking works simply through negative reinforcement, the "passive-aggressive" methods actually force the victim to acknowledge what the right course of action was, and what their mistake was, and what they needed to do to fix it.
Ultimately, I don't know which is better. I guess the guilt stuff is riskier, because if you screw it up, you end up with a nervous, fucked up little loser. But that's kind of true in any case - they say one of the biggest factors in the development of an incredibly large range of psychological disorders is unpredictability and inconsistency of one's environment, and more specifically a feeling of unpredictability of the reactions of parents/other adults.
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