Friday, July 25, 2008
Resolving These Days of Violence
Posted April 1st, 2008 by AmySue Mertens
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One of our most requested programs in Cook County is Conflict Resolution for Youth. Schools across the county express their difficulty in getting past conflicts to reach education each day. Students come to schools with complex issues including hunger, broken families, homelessness, fear, anger, and a lack of social interaction that previous generations take for granted. Another child was shot last night - this time on Chicago's South Side - and today students and administrators from Simeon Career Academy (where a Saturday student was gunned down last weekend) protested lax gun laws at the state building rather than attending classes. The toll is now 22. Besides dismay, I can offer a couple of websites to help parents and children, teachers and administrators to work toward non-violent resolutions. We need to work toward a world when baseball hats, affiliations, words, or looks are not the impetus for violence.
- Character Education:http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/ce/
- Out on a Limb (2nd-4th grade): http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/conflict/
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Non-Violent Resolutions
I have help for anyone that is serious about conflict-resolutions non-violently . Put a mirror in a child's hand , a small one ..........3 x 5 and ask them , to tell you , when the last time they have seen someone , smart , brilliant and intelligent......( you want them to give themselves compliments)...........when you can get a child to focused to love them self..........................you gained a smile and laughter that's the best resolution.............