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What DID Dr. Embry find?
The claim is that because the "Embry study" was about teaching
children to not run into the street by using a set of training strategies, that the study was not about "spanking" so it shouldn't be considered as an argument against "spanking to teach." So what did Dr. Embry actually say originally, and what did he say in his conversation with Barkley in this ng later: : In the Summer 1987 issue of _Children_ magazine, Dr. Dennis Embry : writes: : "Since 1977 I have been heading up the only long-term project : designed to counteract pedestrian accidents to preschool-aged children. : (Surprisingly, getting struck by a car is about the third leading cause : of death to young children in the United States.) : "Actual observation of parents and children shows that spanking, : scolding, reprimanding and nagging INCREASES the rate of street entries : by children. Children use going into the street as a near-perfect way : to gain parents' attention. : "Now there is a promising new educational intervention program, : called Safe Playing. The underlying principles of the program are : simple: : 1. Define safe boundaries in a POSITIVE way. "Safe : players play on the grass or sidewalk." : 2. Give stickers for safe play. That makes it more fun : than playing dangerously. : 3. Praise your child for safe play. : "These three principles have an almost instant effect on : increasing safe play. We have observed children who had been spanked : many times a day for going into the street, yet they continued to do it. : The moment the family began giving stickers and praise for safe play, the : children stopped going into the street. : Dennis D. Embry, Ph.D. : University of Kansas : Lawrence Kansas" Here, in recent months, he personally posted quite the same thing in as many words: "We have observed children who had been spanked many times a day for going into the street, yet they continued to do it. The moment the family began giving stickers and praise for safe play, the children stopped going into the street." And he pointed out the most frequent offenders were children that showed behavioral problems...the very type of child more likely to be spanked in the first place. And the results with these children, after the parent's participated in the study, with training on how to reinforce "Safe Play," the most improvement of the entire set of children, as I recall. Because the study is at present only available in hard copy, I am told, I have once again contacted Triple A, and requested they convert their copy to PDF format so it can be offered in that format for easier and less costly access (It costs a bit over $14 now, I believe, to have it copied and shipped,) and because this is a rare and important study that needs to be seen and read. I'll keep checking to see if they change it's status on their page that listed it, at: http://www.aaafoundation.org/resourc...utton=rsrchcat You might check from time to time as well if you'd like to see this report and what it actually says, and as that related to Dr. Embry's prior comment about the research and spanking, and of course what he said in this newsgroup. Or you could make the purchase yourself. And Doan, as yet, busy as he is with running down the miscreant that tried to pose as him using a cowardly nym, did not ever respond to my question asking for a study that was about the efficacy of using CP, spanking, to teach a child this same thing, reduction of street entries by toddlers. Not even a study on the use of any methods, plus spanking. Though that would be rather counterintuative to consider such a study. But then, 0;] Kane |
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