How should we handle teenage bullies?
Pupils at a school in Yorkshire have assaulted at least 6 of their fellow pupils in an unofficial “Kick a Ginger Kid Dayâ€. The school have called the acts “deplorable†and have “acted swiftly to send a strong messageâ€. It seems the pupils involved have been strongly reprimanded. Furthermore, there has been a school-wide warning […]
When teenagers have sex…
I’ve just read a story about a 17 year old boy who jumped to his death from the Forth Road Bridge. He was being blackmailed about online conversations he’d had with someone he thought was a girl his own age. You can read more about this sad story here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2394520/Dunfermline-teenager-Daniel-Perry-17-kills-blackmailers-trick-Skype.html When will we begin to […]
Where does my responsibility end and my child’s begin?
I deleted this sentence from my blog yesterday about allowing children to experience the consequences of their actions: We’ve become confused about where my responsibility ends and yours begins; where individual responsibility ends and societal responsibility begins; where a child’s responsibility ends and parental responsibility begins. But that’s another blog. Then today I read this […]
Happiness is…dealing with problems
Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them. H. Jackson Brown Jr., American author (b.1940) A friend of mine, with Buddhist leanings, explained to me once that life was essentially unfair.  I have a different way of understanding this important wisdom. I prefer to believe that things only seem […]
