The Problem With Bumper-Sticker Wisdom: "No Loving, No Shoving"
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Posted 06.08.2012
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Canada Living
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No one is disputing the need to keep children safe and to discourage them from assaulting or inappropriately touching one another. But if we think that a simple slogan will work, we are sadly off the mark. It will be wrongly interpreted to mean both that any contact short of a shove is okay, or that no demonstration of affection is acceptable. Is this what we want our children to learn?
