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At 05:36 PM 9/20/01, you wrote:
>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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