Discipline

[close] Laissez faire and mass incarceration: How could these possibly go together? Surprisingly, they have and they've been joined at the hip for a long time... It is widely believed today that the free market is the best mechanism ever invented to efficiently allocate resources in society. Just as fundamental is the belief that government has a legitimate and competent role in policing and punishing. The result, in this country, has been an incendiary combination of laissez faire and mass incarceration. Today, the United States incarcerates over one percent of its adult population, the highest number and rate in the world. In this book and on this forum, Bernard Harcourt discusses the birth of the idea of natural order in economic thought and its gradual evolution into today’s myth of the free market, and he explores how it could possibly have produced the largest government-run penal sphere on the globe. This forum will be live starting March 1, 2011.

[close] Membership is restricted to people we can talk to, so, BE SURE TO FRIEND THE MODERATORS. A group for authors and readers who enjoy darker romantic and erotic themes including Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, and Sadism and Masochism (BDSM). Sapphic romance, wlw and mm romance, and erotic mystery/thrillers are also welcomed topics. This is a place to post information about upcoming books, connect with like minds, ask questions about the lifestyle, and discuss topics about relationship dynamics. Friendship and an open profile are required to join. Don't be shy... we aren't. We put our slut wear on one leg at a time just like everyone else.

[close] Gentle Parenting of WNY promotes peaceful, respectful, and nurturing relationships between parents and children. The administrators and members of this group focus on supporting each other and fellow parents in learning how to manage the behavior of themselves and their children through the use of behavior science, knowledge of child development and appropriate expectations, and through methods/philosophies/practices such as Attachment Parenting, RIE, Montessori, Waldorf, Reggio Emilia, and others. Positive discipline techniques such as time-in, redirecting, and reinforcement of appropriate behavior, etc. are promoted and encouraged. Discipline and parental techniques that are punitive are not promoted or encouraged. These include: spanking, slapping, smacking, hitting, or any other means of physical discipline seclusion or traditional time-out threatening shaming any other technique that demeans and/or disrespects the child Children do not learn to be respectful unless they are respected as the whole humans they are, complete with unique personalities, wants, needs, and desires. Respect for the child as she is today is of the utmost importance.

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