Jennifer Rodriguez (Photo: courtesy)

An educator, blogger and children’s book author, Jennifer Rodriguez, founded Salice Family Services a non-profit dedicated to help children and families deal with adversity through understanding how to manage stress and build healthy emotional bonds.

What parent hasn’t experienced outrage when an adult who is trusted to care for their child, abuses their power? Coaches, parents of other peers, teachers, principals, or our own spouses or ex-spouses — at one time or another, children will have to contend with adult bullies.

(Excerpt from 2012 Winter Banana Moments quarterly periodical)

In a recent Time Magazine article, Why spanking doesn’t work, by journalist Bonnie Rochman, the topic of spanking surfaces once again questioning its effectiveness.

The article encourages parents to offer intelligent reactions to their child’s misdeeds because physical aggression only begets more physical aggression. An example offered is a toddler who drops her dad’s toothbrush into the toilet. Explain why it is not a good …

In Stone Mountain, Georgia, August 31, 2009, 61-year-old Roger Stephens slapped a toddler who annoyed him because he would not stop crying. According to news reports, he warned the mother, Sonya Matthews, to quiet her child or he would do it for her. When the child continued crying, he slapped her in the face at least four times. Stephens is facing felony cruelty to children charges, and is being held without bond.

 Sergeant John Weaver, …