Unfortunately, I don't have any kids. Do cats count? I've tried telling
them to go to their room, to stop scratching my furniture and to stop
climbing up the curtains but they just don't listen. :-)
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 4:39 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Interesting punishment
Do you have any kids? I do and let me tell you, the reason the "go to
your
room" punishment works is because they don't want to be there. It's an
affront to their independence. It doesn't matter that all their toys are
in
their room. It doesn't matter that they could be reading, playing,
jumping,
whatever. It only works because they don't like it. I really (really,
really) don't think that sensory deprivation works on kids. They've got
to
much in their heads running around.
And dropping my kids in the middle of the park? They'd love it. We did
call
my daughter "Hinda Bear". :)
At 04:28 PM 9/20/01, you wrote:
>That's really interesting. Maybe that's why parents punish their
>children by telling them to "go to your room" or "stand in the corner"
-
>Although that's different than dropping your kid off in the middle of
>the Yosemite National Park. When I first read the article, I thought,
>what kind of punishment is that. But it really does make sense.
>
>At any rate, I thought it was funny.
>
>Mark
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 4:11 PM
>To: CF-Community
>Subject: Re: Interesting punishment
>
>
>Actually, as a past student of psychology I'd say that sensory
>deprivation
>is an excellent form of punishment. Add to that a few very nice
>'features'
>of sensory deprivation makes is even better. A person has a deep seated
>need for sensory input. If we don't have it, we will seek it to the
>extreme. A person in a sensory deprivation situation (Reduced
>Enviromental
>Stimuli) will have an 'open' mind. If you tell them to "farm the land
>and
>not harm anyone" then they will pay their utmost attention to that
>'command' and after a little time it will be their primary motivation.
>And
>I'm not talking years. The average person can be days. Yes, we're
>talking
>natural brainwashing. Might not be something we want to do for noise
>pollution but for murder or other offenses, hell yes. Punishment and
the
>
>modification of the offender. If controlled and not abused.....
>
>At 04:00 PM 9/20/01, you wrote:
> > From the Philadelphia Metro paper:
> >
> >"A young man convicted of disorderly conduct for blasting his car
>stereo
> >was sentenced to three hours of silence. Kenyata Reid, 22, served the
> >sentence this week, when a park ranger dropped him off more than a
mile
> >inside a forested stretch of parkland in Painesville, Ohio."
> >
> >"Reid had gotten in hot water by blasting his car stereo in front of
a
> >police officer. Municipal judge Michael Cicconetti offered Reid a
> >choice: two days in jail or three hours alone in the woods."
> >
> >Maybe this is the punishment we should give to terrorists... Then
>napalm
> >the woods.
> >
> >
>
>
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