Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 17, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Tempo Section Gail c1 january Joe Bryksa Winnipeg free press parenting other methods looking for alternatives to spanking Here Are courses offered at two Winnipeg counselling ser Check your local Church or Community Many of them offer parenting courses As b River Heights family life education Centre 4531271 positive discipline begins 8 at m South Winnipeg family information Centre 2849311 How to talk so kids will listen and How to listen so kids will talk evening course begins after noon course begins every Parent or person standing in the place of a Parent is justified in using Force by Way of correction toward a Pupil or As the Case May who is under his if the Force does not exceed what is reasonable under the Section criminal code of Canada there was an old woman who lived in a shoe she had so Many children she didst know what to she gave them some Broth without any bread then whipped them All soundly and put them to traditional Nursery rhyme by Paul Mckie staff reporter he toddler moves toward the hot element on the you Tell the child not to touch but Onward the child you still no and then you its a time honoured parenting almost always justified by the Parent in these cases spanking a child to prevent further in these Days of heightened awareness of Domestic violence and child is spanking a recommended form of discipline is it even Legal in the a Man on vacation in was charged with assault when he spanked his child in the Saskatchewan film and video classification Board initially banned the lame comedy exit to Eden because it had a scene of a Nanny spanking a there is even movement to have Sec Tion 43 of the criminal code the Section gives parents and guardians the Legal authority to hit we dont have to resort to assaulting a says Michelle Eldridge of the River Heights family life education the Centre teaches parenting courses that offer alternatives to Eldridge says the Centre tries to give parents options so that they dont rely on but Eldridge recognizes that disciplining a child is a personal thing and spanking May be a part of that there Are others who see it As a parents right As a form of she i believe this is a method of discipline that has its says Richard the father of three says he has used spanking to raise his children and sees nothing wrong with he says he was spanked As a child and i feel no but Joan University of Manitoba family studies has come to a different View after studying its difficult to be involved in this research and not be involved in the advocacy of she Durrant recently spent time in swe Den and is writing a comparative Analy Sis of Sweden and Canadas attitudes toward spanking and our attitudes with children in just because we have authority Over does that mean we have the right to hit them she Many parents do spank their Chil not not but As a method of discipline they see As effect i grew up with says lome a father of a now 17 year old on rare occasion Ive had to administer it to my own private As a Parent i see a role for spank says who is also a devout he also is disturbed by the Prospect of the Law getting involved in the Pri vate matter of disciplining i dont think the state should be concerning itself with As i under stand the term he what society Means by spanking is indeed a one persons spank ing is another persons inspector Lou Spado of the Winnipeg police services youth division believes that corrective measures allowed in Section 43 Are a parents As Long As its Spado has seen Many cases where a spanking went too he says he recently heard a Man on a radio show complaining about How child and family services took away his children for no weve got pictures of the imprint of his hand on their he the Law allows using Force by Way of correction but says that Force must be so whats reasonable that what u of m Law professor Anne Mcgillivray has been Shes seeking to have Section 43 pm he says the Law As written is vague and can Lead to divergent interpretations depending on the judge and the Shes concerned that the which Doest explicitly address con Dones More serious physical Force on i dont think beating people with belts is she As for people being arrested for Mcgillivray says it int her intent to criminalize spanking in my mind is outside All of she she also recognizes that changing the Law wont change behaviour but maybe it will diminish the effects in the next Mcgillivray so Many parents and experts feel that an occasional spanking is not lots of parents can occasionally give a spanking to a child and i dont think there abusing the children at says Ken Mcrae of the child develop ment clinic at childrens like Many parents even those who say they dont has spanked his own we know the Best approach to a child is not to hit them but people Are he he Doest see an occasion Al spanking scarring a child for referral Mcrae says problems develop when spanking is used As the primary source of he says the number one referral to his clinic is Foury Earold boys with aggressive Invar he those kids Are regularly pummelled at Durrant has much analysis to do but has concluded analysis on one aspect of the she says the evidence shows that Canadian parents Are quicker to see a Childs behaviour As a they want that behaviour to change and they want that behaviour to be corrected in a More serious it Are a More tolerant people with the their kids than we both Killey and Bergstresser love their children even if they have spanked they have to understand its done As a discipline and because we love says the end result of All Good discipline is to Stop the kid from getting says but Durrant believes its time for a fundamental change in the Way we think about not just their is there another Way she do we have to assume its always been this Way and will always be this Way secondhand smoke can make pet sick heres something you probably never thought much about the effects of secondhand tobacco smoke on your weve All heard How smoking kills canadians each weve also heard How children breathing secondhand smoke Are More vulnerable to bronchitis and sudden infant death syndrome than children in smoke free weve also seen smoking banned in most work we deep in our that smoking is bad for us and those around but what about the dog or cat that shares your Home the simply is that lung tissue is lung tissue whether youre talking about Man or and when you smoke with your pet in the it inhales the same icky tar and nicotine that you Ive seen a few animals with symptoms that can be blamed on secondhand veterinarian Pat Napier of Henderson animal Hospital one dog had a severe Eye infection and swelling of the the own didst give up they pet perfect Bruce Owen just smoke in a different room Here Are the according to recent news stories on research being done in the United states on the subject i smokes inflammatory action has been reproduced in cat lungs to demonstrate How bronchitis can be aggravated by living in a smoking researchers have shown How secondhand smoke can affect a cat that already has measurable constriction and inflammation has been found to explain the asthma As in respiratory prob lems can Lead to heart lung cancer is also a its estimated cats die Annu ally in the United states from the 1 cats with asthma react differently than their behaviour becomes quiet which hides the asthma from the most cats Are confined to Homes and so smok ing can exacerbate the but when smoking the cats bronchitis or asthma goes the situation is the same with dogs in 1992 a Colorado state University researcher found there was a link Between passive smok ing and canine lung John Rief of Colorado state University reported in the Ameri can journal of epidemiology that a dogs chances of getting lung cancer Are 50 per cent greater if the owner its More than twice As great for shorthand medium nosed dogs such As toy Breeds and assorted its estimated lung cancer strikes an estimated dogs a year in the and smoking could contribute to hundreds of the Many older dogs also have chronic coughs that could be related to passive not to other canine ailments such As Kennel i irritation is also posit smokers Force their pets to breathe toxic secondhand an allergy expert in Florida believes that 25 per cent of dogs in smokers households suffer skin allergy due to cigarette none of action has already been taken by the cat fanciers it banned smoking to protect the health of the cats in indoor Arenas in the where 400 cat shows Are held Here in the Manitoba cat club has done the smoke is definitely a spokesman John Bodnar when youre the last thing you want to smell is smoke on a the Canadian Kennel club Hast banned smoking is its spokeswoman Doreen Nevraumont says a nonsmoking policy Only exists at Arenas where theres a permanent ban on smok like the Selkirk the Point we should All remember about this Issue is As we can make a conscious decision about whether or not we want to smoke and whether or not we want to be around people who our pets they breathe the same air we do and have no say about its if you have pet related stories or have column you can fax me at 6977412 or write to pet perfect do the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain win r2x ;