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<title>It starts with home</title>
<description><![CDATA[These students may be too young to serve jail time, but their parents are not.  I believe the parents should be fined and or jailed for not monitoring their children.  The parents were negligent and should be held accountable.  How was a child able to leave the house with a steak knife?  I still randomly check my children's backpacks and school notes and they're in middle school. 

I have been told by third graders "I don't care if you tell my mom, she's not going to do anything."; "My parents give me whatever I want."; "My parents don't care what you say."  Even when you contact parents to let them know there is a problem, most make excuses for their child:  he cusses you out because of this disorder, has no respect for authority because of this disorder, calls you names because of this disease, he says the same thing to me, or they do not respond at all.  But, when the teacher makes a discipline decision, then there's a problem and the parent wants to blame the "system".  

After so many warnings, if you start jailing them for their negligence or making them pay a fine,  I bet all the diseases and disorders they spoke of earlier, will go right out the window or other arrangements will be made for that child.  Also, when the child sees that the parent has been removed because of something they did, it should have a lasting effect and hopefully bring about a positive change.  

Parents should stop making excuses and be held accountable.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:04:16</pubDate>
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<title>Really?</title>
<description><![CDATA[It's called diffusion of responsibility. The assumption, basically, that it's someone else's job. 

And as moved as I am to know that New York City public school philosophy students are sure they would have acted differently, it's actually not always that easy to know when you should do something and when you shouldn't. I'm not talking about the driver who hit this guy, obviously. 

But "it was later reported that several witnesses called 911" and "approximately a minute and a half after the impact, a police car arrived." I can only hope if I get hit by a car the police come that fast. 

I think it's laughable that we would point at this situation as evidence of 'no longer' having a moral compass. The human race hasn't actually changed that much in ... a long time. And we do much worse things. This situation is par for the course. Not even that bad, relatively speaking. 

Ok, I'm a cynic, I guess. Does anyone else feel like this is getting blown a little out of proportion?!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:04:01</pubDate>
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<title>Can fix this easily</title>
<description><![CDATA[Okay, so I don’t think that this is such a huge problem.  I think that these kids couldn’t have actually killed her.  They are 3rd graders! The school would have noticed the duct tape before anything happened or at least should have.  I don’t think these kids should have any other punishment from the school besides suspension and the parents doing something.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:54:40</pubDate>
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<title>Read my whole post...</title>
<description><![CDATA[Let me respond by repeating part of my post:  it may only take one person, whether it’s a family member, a neighbor, or a visitor from another country, to start the spread of a disease.  And, even immunized individuals can be at risk because no vaccine is ever 100 percent effective for everyone.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:03:32</pubDate>
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<title>Who is responsible for actions of third graders</title>
<description><![CDATA[I have taught in secondary schools in Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia for over forty years.  If we stop and think, the fact that we are questioning whether or not the parents are responsible for this kind of behavior is alarming.  Why would they not be?  Is it their fault, entirely, is another question.  

Parents are responsible for the actions of their children until the offspring reach maturity.  This is an idea that was taken for granted in the past, but now young parents seem to think that it is debatable.  The first thing that must be done to solve these kinds of problems is to make it emphatically clear that parents or guardians are responsible for the behavior of their minor children.  Regardless of the actions or circumstances, parents must again take for granted that they are responsible. Then, we can address the problem of who is at fault for outrageous, unacceptable actions.  

We, as a human community, must realize that the advancement or decline of any society is the responsibility of all of its citizenry. Who is then at fault for these kinds of shocking incidents created by what we like to believe are innocent children?  Everyone is, including the children themselves.  

What, then, must we do to discourage this kind of behavior repeating itself or, heaven forbid, increasing in frequency?  As adults, the most effective thing that we can do is to model the kind of behavior that we want to perpetuate and to avoid the kind of behavior that we want to prevent.  It may seem that this answer is to simplistic to be effective, but if the majority of all of us did this on a daily bases, we would be closer to developing the kind of society that is becoming more civilized and less violent.]]></description>
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<title>Not to be the stereotypical teenager...</title>
<description><![CDATA[This problem has got to lie in the hands of the parents.  You can't just blame video games or TV for a plot for the demise of a third grade teacher.  Honestly, if these kids don't know that threatening your teacher because of something so minute as giving one of your friends time out then there has GOT to be something wrong going on at home.

I will say they need to be reprimanded somehow.  For the steak knife though, and nothing else, and it needs to be done by the PARENTS. These kids are 10 years old; do you really think having a judge slap them on the wrist is going to change anything?  Please, that wasn't THAT long ago for me (I’m 17 now).  I at least remember that back then I was more "afraid" (read: Respectful) of my parents than I was of any police officer or member of the judicial system.

Anyhow, that's just my two cents.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:49:40</pubDate>
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<title>Reply to meant to be</title>
<description><![CDATA[Dave, you may be a man, but I agree with you. There are so many children in this country that need loving, caring parents that if you can't conceive or want to have all your children at once, adopt. That being said, there are selfish people out there that feel that the child has to carry their genes for them to love them. My best friend is unable to have children and at this time, she is in the process of adopting her second child. She and her family love these children every bit as much as if she had had IFV and given birth. I'm sure she would also agree with your statement.]]></description>
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<title>Boycott</title>
<description><![CDATA[I totally agree with you, Joyce.  I have never watched the show, and knew from the commercials for it that I never would.  I don't even know if it is still on the air. It makes me wonder what has happened to our society, will we destroy our friend and family just for monetary gain?]]></description>
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<title>Just like any other sport!</title>
<description><![CDATA[The comparison of kids mixed martial arts or "ultimate fighting" is stated in the article to be in similarity to dog fighting; however, in children's MMA competitions there are strict rules that must be adhered to in order to secure the most important aspect of the sport, which is the athletes safety.  These matches are monitored by referees just like any other type of sports competition.  On the other hand, in dog fighting there are no referees whatsoever, the dogs are often brutally abused and mistreated in order to gain victory and usually leave the match with life threatening and inhibiting injuries.  In regards to the concern of medical professionals on the topic of injury, children are injured more frequently when participating in "traditional" sports; however, in the rare occasion that a child does get injured in MMA it makes headlines because of its "violent" nature.  In reality this "violent" behavior is exactly what MMA is against because it teaches the most important aspects of any sport which are respect, self control, and fun.  Before people judge MMA they need to look past their stereotypes and assumptions that they have formed in order to form an accurate opinion of the sport.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:17:38</pubDate>
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<title>BMJ on Whopping Cough Vaccinations</title>
<description><![CDATA[Celeste- correlation is not causation. This article shows why:


"The recent scare about the rising numbers of whooping cough cases in the UK seems to have overlooked one very important detail. In virtually every case, the child had been vaccinated.

Research by Oxford University suggests that whooping cough is ‘widespread’ among children in the UK – and, despite the rising number of cases being reported, many others go undiagnosed because doctors assume the vaccine is doing its job.

As it is, 237 cases were reported in 2004, and 289 cases in 2005. Most of the children had been vaccinated against the disease.

But the real picture is very likely much worse. The Oxford researchers interviewed doctors, who viewed whooping cough as affecting only the very young who had not been vaccinated. On that basis, most cases of whooping cough are going unreported.

The Oxford researchers discovered that, of 172 cases of children who went to their doctor with a bad cough, 64 of them had recently been vaccinated against pertussis infection, and 55 had been fully immunized.


(Source: BMJ online. British Medical Journal,doi:10.1136/bmj.38870.655405.AE)]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:10:05</pubDate>
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<title>TALK TO YOUR CHILDREN!</title>
<description><![CDATA[FREQUENTLY, CONSISTENTLY, AND HONESTLY.

Don't put them in the backyard and shut the door like an untrained dog.

All of this and all projects like it could be prevented with regular, open-honest, listening and guiding from parents.

SAVE THE WORLD. TALK TO YOUR KIDS!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:46:35</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Well, this is a sticky issue.  If she does this, she possibly will get more than one child-and her children, if multiples-are at higher risk of many health problems as a result.  If convenience is an issue, don't have kids.  Seriously, think about it.  This isn't fast food.  These are children, and she isn't at McDonalds!  If you get pregnant, then good.  If you don't, IVF is an option.  And if IVF doesn't work, there is always adoption.  And there is always the other option, she can get a dog.  And if she wants lots of them, she can get more than one!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:44:43</pubDate>
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<title>The facts</title>
<description><![CDATA[Cases of measles, mumps, tetanus, whooping cough (pertussis) and other life-threatening illnesses have been reduced by more that 95 percent. Immunization against influenza and pneumonia prevent tens of thousands of deaths annually among elderly persons and those who are chronically ill. As a result, millions of lives have been saved. But don't let the success of vaccines fool you into thinking we no longer need them. Most vaccine-preventable diseases aren't gone.
Steve Berman, M.D., president of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a pediatrician in Denver, says he and his colleagues were devastated to recently see an infant die of whooping cough. "This was a case where the family thought the risks of vaccination outweighed the benefits," Dr. Berman says. The baby was exposed to the disease by two older brothers who hadn't been vaccinated. Vaccines contain a weakened (attenuated) or killed (inactivated) form of disease-causing bacteria or viruses, or components of these microorganisms, that trigger a response by our body's immune system. For example, vaccines stimulate our bodies to make antibodies--proteins that specifically recognize and target the bacteria and viruses against which the vaccines are designed, and that help eliminate them from the body when we encounter them.

Without vaccine protection, we can easily contract and transmit infectious diseases. It may only take one person, whether it's a family member, a neighbor, or a visitor from another country, to start the spread of a disease. And even immunized individuals can be at risk because no vaccine is ever 100 percent effective for everyone.
Make your own decisions here.  The info is available out there.  These diseases are preventable!  Don't be like this family and fail to immunize  your kids.  You may lose one of them because of it.  Just do what is right for your kids and the entire community and country!  Be wise-immunize!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:33:13</pubDate>
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<title>Vaccinated Children and the CDC's Lies Are the Pro</title>
<description><![CDATA[The hypothesis that unvaccinated children pose a health threat to vaccinated children is false. Here are two examples from among scores that elucidate the point. A 1985 study that appeared in Pediatrics entitled, "Risk Factors for Measles Vaccine Failure Among Immunized Students" revealed that a large outbreak of measles occurred in a school in Corpus Christi, Texas where 99 percent of the students had valid proof of measles immunization. One week after the first case of measles surfaced blood tests were performed on 1,806 students of whom 95 percent were considered "immune" to measles by ELISA testing. Twelve percent of the students had received two doses of measles vaccine. Despite all the "scientific proofs" that these children were immune to measles, an epidemic of measles broke out among highly vaccinated students nonetheless.  A 1989 study published in the Journal of Pediatrics revealed that the pertussis vaccine may be only 40 to 45 percent effective. If vaccines truly protected children from disease (which they don't) then unvaccinated children would pose no health threat to the vaccinated. The facts say that both vaccinated and unvaccinated children get childhood diseases. In the 1950's children vaccinated with the killed Salk polio vaccine got paralytic polio--as did some of their parents and community contacts. You are not supposed to be able to get polio from a child vaccinated with a killed polio vaccine--another myth. It happened. It was called the Cutter Incident. Vaccines do not provide immunity. The reverse is true. Vaccinated children, as I have demonstrated, pose a health threat to unvaccinated children and to themselves because they are carrying around live and killed bacteria and viruses in their bodies---which can spread.

Jamie Murphy
Author, What Every Parent Should Know about Childhood Immunization]]></description>
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<title>Give me a break</title>
<description><![CDATA[I am both a parent and teacher.  I have two children ages 3 and 8 and I have been teaching inner city adolescents for almost ten years now.  I too also was diagnosed with add at the age of seven. We as a society, in an age of mass technology, confusion, and distraction have LOST ALL COMMON SENSE.  It's simple: there is right and there is wrong.  These boys are wrong and their parents are responsible for them until the age of 18. It is the parent’s primary responsibility to instill in our children morals, values, ethics, and the reasoning and coping skills needed to survive life - media, peers, difficult choices, ethical dilemmas and all it offers all. Children are not stupid and I have seen it happen far too often (because I was guilty of it) where they manipulate the system and are empowered by all of this questioning, discussion, labeling and so on.  They again get lost in the mix.  It boils down to the simple fact that these students knew right from wrong because these types of incidents are all over the media.  Once knowledge is there, then it is a conscious choice.  The parents are responsible (again until the age of 18) to EDUCATE, DISCIPLINE, and to disregard all the confusion in life.  It is the parents duty to instill THOUGHT and CHOICE in their children (if they can't they shouldn't have them) and once the child knows right from wrong, he too also becomes responsible.  I just wish some of you could actually come into classrooms and see just exactly how your boy or girl thinks and behaves.  It just might surprise you.  And for the teachers out there who bear the brunt of BAD PARENTING- I am sorry that yet again it is our problem and that we still go back into the classroom each and every day as some parents sit back and relax.  COMMON SENSE, PEOPLE, COMMON SENSE.  If YOUR dog craps on the carpet it's YOUR JOB to clean it up.]]></description>
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<title>Overpopulation is a myth</title>
<description><![CDATA[Please, please educate yourselves as to the real issues that will destroy our planet.  Having children is NOT one of them. (See Steve Mosher's books and articles on the myth.)  
I cannot believe people are so lacking in generosity.  The gift of a child is truly the greatest benefit in this life.  There is always room for one more--regardless of the existing number.]]></description>
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<title>Why not both?</title>
<description><![CDATA[I am fortunate that both my kids eat most fruits and vegetables.  I still like the idea of adding more nutrition to their meals and I do not serve packaged foods very often.  So, why not add the puree when possible, but still serve the whole fruits and vegetables?  I think the 'experts' say that a new item has to be put in front of kids an average of 10 times before they will try it on their own.  However, in my house they have to take at least one bite (even for fresh tomatoes which is the only think they do not like).]]></description>
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<title>Alcohol is a part of life</title>
<description><![CDATA[I do not think that anyone would suggest that a family of alcoholics should try to teach a child about responsible drinking by any method, especially by example. And, if parents know that their child is prone to any disease, including alcoholism, they must take the necessary precautions to protect and educate their child about the disease. 

But for those families who can themselves drink alcohol responsibly and who view alcohol neither as a "magic potion" nor a "poison" but as a regular part of life and culture, sensibly sharing this aspect of life with their children might help the children to acquire a more mature perspective of alcohol. For those parents who are capable of teaching their children about how to behave responsibly and safely around alcohol, I not only think that it is their right but their duty to teach their children these skills. The fact of the matter is that alcohol is a part of life and a part of every culture in one way or another, and it is never going to go away. We cannot expect any child to decide for himself or herself to never try alcohol, so if parents do not teach their children how to drink safely, who will?

Ideally, every child should learn to neither abuse nor be intimidated by alcohol. Responsible drinking never results in “making an idiot out of yourself”, and that is what we want our children to learn.]]></description>
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<title>That's absurd - Part 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[I agree with Candy's comments and would like to add that I hope your approach wouldn't be the same regarding teaching your children about sex.  Too many parents want to be a friend to their children instead of the parent because it just isn't as fun being the bad guy sometimes.  But, that is definitely the RESPONSIBLE thing to do.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:12:12</pubDate>
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<title>Teach Your Children Well</title>
<description><![CDATA[We teach our children in many ways, including by example. Our children learn how to respond to things like injuries, bad news, rudeness, in part by how parents react and behave. So, since alcohol is a part of our culture, and it’s here to stay, what better way to show our children how to drink responsibility then to show them ourselves? 


I wouldn’t recommend a parent with a drinking problem trying this, but by showing children how to maintain a healthly relationship with alcohol, maybe we can reduce the risk of alcoholism and excessive drinking in their future.  Isn’t some cautionary education better than nothing for all young people?


We really do need to teach our children, that is, our older children, how to drink in moderation, to never drink and drive, not to drink when one day they become pregnant, only to drink while eating, to drink water along with alcohol, to drink out of the proper glass, to drink to celebrate special occasions, to always have a clever, cheerful toast in mind, and not to call attention to yourself while drinking.


You know from being a teenager that most things that you were denied you found intriguing. You wanted access to it to solve the mysteries around it. Knowledge is power. We should teach our older children how to enjoy alcohol and how to protect themselves from its misuse, the same way we teach them how to be responsible with an automobile, electricity, fire, money, etc. so they have power over it and it never over powers them.]]></description>
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