Hi, I am new to the forum.

I was wondering your thoughts about Jacobellis v. Ohio, a case concerning constitutional standards for censorship activities involving children. The case concluded "laws aimed specifically at preventing distribution of objectionable children might be acceptable."

Related to this, do you think it should be permissible to restrict certain ads on television channels aimed at children?

Is this censorship?

BOREDOM.
It merely sucks!

Talk about how bored you are.
:D

My 3 and half year old son has been pulling hair (of other children at school). It started a few months ago, until then he would pull my hair only. A few months ago, after repeatedly telling him don't pull hair, he stopped pulling my hair at home but started doing so at school instead and now he does it at home and at school. He is a bright kid, but just does not understand pulling hair, hitting, scratching hurt. He is also in a class where everone (who is over 4) communicates much better than he does, and his behavior seems to have worsened gradually since he was moved to this new class (gradually over a year or so and last week he started hitting and scratching!). No amount of talking, time out, and spanking helps(did it out of frustration and realized its wrong!). While changing environments (school) is an option, what if the behavior does not stop even with that done. Is it the environment, lack of ability to communicate, or in general a stage that some 3 year olds go through? How do I hadle this so that the other children are safe and the root cause of this agression is taken care of so that my son is happy as well?

Hello, I'm new to the site so hope this post finds you well :) I'm still very much learning non-coercion myself, and whilst I solidly believe in the concept, it doesn't always come naturally. I often revert back to labelling people 'bad' and verbally disapproving without even realising I'm doing it, but I hope practice will make pefect.

With this in mind, how would one pass on the philosophy to authoritarians? I am finding acquaintances will follow an example to fit in whilst I'm in their company, but some frown upon 'weak, namby pambying' around children and some will challenge the notion that children aren't simply bad people who need to be forced into good ones!

So how can I reason with parents and carers of children who do not want to change? Or is this just another form of coercion?

As the world slips deeper and deeper into a dependence on Information Technology, the future of online learning and digital technology seem inevitable. Computers are no longer restricted to computer technology classes. They have made their way into every learning environment. Within the next ten years, initiatives such as “One Laptop per Child” promise global access to the internet for all children regardless of their infrastructure and level of poverty. If so, demand for computer-based learning concepts that are adaptable and accessible will likely skyrocket. With children representing such a significant segment of the user demographic, let us examine the advantages and drawbacks of video-game technology. Countless renowned scholars embrace the future of video games as learning tools, but there remains a social stigma that inhibits progress on moral grounds. This blog entry intends to examine the highly popular video games of today for their enormous educative potential. In the process, a series of popular beliefs and misconceptions will be discussed and hopefully clarified.

Games, just like any learning exercises, come with a set of values that ultimately teach a moral lesson. These values, explicit or implicit, may even differ from the intended pedagogical lesson. Below are some simple games that, when applied to a classroom, teach various moral lessons.

Nobel Prize winning mathematician, John Nash (1951) developed a series of games that he applied to mathematical analysis of the patterns of human behaviour known as Game Theory. One of his best known challenges is a game aptly named “Fuck-You, Buddy”, then changed to the more appropriate “So Long, Sucker” (Although most scholars still lovingly refer to it by its original name). The game involves three or more players sitting in a circle. Each player has a set of seven uniquely coloured chips. The fun begins when each player in turn places a chip on the table in a stack. When two chips of the same colour are placed in a row, the corresponding player may collect the stack. When a player has no more chips he or she is eliminated. Players may hold each other’s chips hostage, and any deal may be made or broken at any time as long as it is made at the table. The last player at the table wins.

This game, on a pedagogical level, is effective in teaching strategy, negotiation skills, and cooperation while applying mathematical equations to real life. This basic game structure is used in many mainstream board games such as Monopoly, Risk and Diplomacy to name a few. But, what are the moral values that players take away from this game?

My son is 14. He has a 12 year old brother and i am a single parent. I am finding it hard to bond with my eldest, because he has decided that he is 'man of the house'. For the past 2 years, he has found it difficult to cope with his father becoming a transexual and then he came out as gay at school. When ever we argue, he ends up shoving me across the room, swearing and punching me!

I know he needs something to do to let off steam, but he does not want to do ANYTHING he just goes on his laptop when he gets in from school. I have asked him if he wants to do judo or swimming etc, but he just shouts, throws his fists around and slams his bedroom door. His younger brother usually tries to pull him away from me, but he ends up hurt.

What i need is advice on how to calm the situation, before it gets to the stage where he becomes violent. He has been to counselling, but he now refuses to go and apart from dragging him down the road (he is far too strong for me) his brother and i just tiptoe around him, trying not to upset him (which is hard, because anything sets him off!!) Life is almost unbearable, my family live 300 miles away and i dont socialise at all, because i live in a bad estate and i am practically a recluse. Does anyone have any suggestions??

help.
i am bored
and fed up
and tired.
in the last 2 days, i have had 5 hours sleep.
my so called best friends hate me
and i am generally miserable
my french teacher appears to be going through a midlife crisis, and i am stuck next to sam, who keeps looking over my shoulder to see what i am writing. i should be finishing off my animations, but i left my french book at home, and can't be bothered to try and remember it. So i am writing this instead.....
i am feeling weird, my boyfriend used to go out with my best friend, then SHE broke up with HIM.
i now go out with him, and she's not talking to me on the account that she thinks i stole her boyfriend.
ever since i started going out with him, she has been really jealous. she purposely made good friends with him again (she's hated his guts before we went out). at first, i thought, good, no problem, i'm glad they are friends, but she's just admitted that she still likes him a LOT. he's still a bit hung up on her, and according to my friend, she asked him out last night. apparantly, he's now gonna dump me for her.

my life sucks.

I'm at school. DDD:
The eighth graders are taking FCAT, sooooo I'm stuck in my Technology class with three other people [most of the class was in eighth grade] and a substitute.
So, after playing any game the school's computers wouldn't block, I got bored. I typed in "bored in school" and got some blog entry or whatever from here. So, yeah, I signed up.
I'm going to use this to amuse myself for a little bit [even though I dunno' what I'm supposed to post or anything, but whatever] . . .
I'm hungry. DDDD: I wish I would of brought my I-Pod to school today, so I could at *least* listen to music. It's really quiet in here - I can here the sound of me typing across the room. '-_-
Maybe I'll mess around with my DS or read or something, 'cuz there's still fourty minutes left of class [I think].
I wanna' listen to musicccccccca'. DDDD;
ughhhh. what kinda' music do you . . . people listen to? I hope this isn't one of those serious forums where I'd get yelled at for posting this. :x
oh welllll. XD
i skipped saturday work detail and now i might get suspended for two days. DDDDD:
ughhhh.
oh, yeah, i wanna' see that movie about that conneticut haunting. it looks good.
lol, joseph just went up to the sub. to ask to go to the bathroom -- again. she said no. DXXXX
poor joseph. :(
anywayyyyyyy . . ..
yeahhhh. after this is fourth period [i think, i'm not sure how they're doing things today] -- that means i have pe next. D:<
i hate my pe teacher. she looks like a tweaker or something. she sounds like it, too. XDDD
yeahhh, she's mean. >_<
she takes pe too seriously. annnddddd never gives us anytime when we get back from pe to go to the bathroom or anything. D:< i got half my points taken away last week becauase [after we came in from being in the sun and everything] for taking too long to fix my hair and stuff. '-_-
ugh.

idk wat dah whole reason of goin 2 skool is..it just makes us want 2 go insane..i mean sumtimes i just want 2 kill myself its not dat i dnt pay attention i just dnt fill lyk listening 2 dah teacher talk cuz they talk bout dah same dame thing all day every day..i mean dahonly reason i go 2 is 2 c my lil sis and friends..most of the tym i just want 2 stay home and play my x-box 360...
i dnt get dah whole point of skool it makes no sence..
the only reason i think paretns make us go 2 skool is so they culd have a piece of quiet around dah house..enyway gots 2 go..

peace out

I am so bored right now! Also, I think that i have the attention span of a cat! I usually like this class because the teacher is really awesome, but right now i just can't concentrate and just want to go outside and run around because it is the second day that its nice outside. We are studing Shakespeare at 9 in the morning1 omg i just want my nose to fall off because it is running and our cheap school never buys any kleenx's! Our school is soo cheap that in the winter ther is no heat and in the summer its freezing too!!! i am in a random mood today i just want it to be tomarrow right now and then i could do my solo and all the solo and ensemble stuff would be over and i could do nothing but lay outside in the sun! wow these computers suck it take forever to do anything and you can't go anywhere or do anything fun!!! i typed in bored in school in my computers class the other day and this website came up so now i want mine to come up and for other bored people to read it! that would be awesome. even thou mine's prolly more boring than the other one, that is ok. if you read this whole thing than way to go! you rule and are just as bored as i am writing this!