What can ordinary people do to help in the fight against crime?

People often blame police and authorities because they don't do "anything" against crime, in which the most affected are just ordinary people; but, think it or not, we can do lots of things to fight against crime because we can't let criminals do whatever they want. We need to feel safe ourselves by no putting in risk our integrity, don't walk in dangerous streets or in footbridges where you know you can be stolen by criminals. You can also buy (if you can) things to protect yourselves, such as change the lock, buy electric shock tools in case of self defense, buy a dog and train it with special abilities, buy panic bottoms, pepper sprays, or in special cases, you can by a gun, but it's not recommendable because of the bad use people can give it. Another healthier solution is to learn physical self defense, like kung fu, karate, tae kwon do, etc. Some useful pieces of advice is to keep your personal information safe from unknown people, be always aware of people you don't know, which it doesn't mean you have to be paranoid all the time, just be careful.

As you can see, there are so many ways to help avoid and fight against crime, don't leave the solutions to authorities if you can do something about it, you can protect yourself, as we all know, not everything is for free, but, will you keep waiting for something to happen you and your family? What do you expect? While people in charge don’t care about us we need to deal in the best ways this issue, what are waiting for?

It should be illegal for parent to hit their childrenii

A punch, hitting, a kick, a slap... What can this physical punishments could cause in a child of two, five, thirteen, or sixteen years old? Do these physical punishments teach something to them? What do you think they could learn with all of this? Respect or fear?
Is true, some parents lose their minds and don't think what they are doing, some of them are just mad and they can't control themselves, some of them were hardly punished by their own parents and they think that's the only way to solution their children's behaviors problems, some of those parents think that sometimes is necessary a little slap to control their kids, and despite I think physiological violence is worse than physical, is not a subject we must ignore at all.
If we think of ways of teaching in 50' to 90' is all conductive, and every time the student didn’t do what the teacher wanted, the student had to pay consequences, that's why I think our parents and their parents don't understand and can't get other ways to express anger or control their kids, and for worse, they are not able to dimensionate the damage their are doing do their child or what could the kid be into, such things as drugs or alcohol to "get away" from their houses.
I strongly believe that it should be illegal for parent to hit their children, because now there are new ways to teach and for let anger escape from ourselves, there is breathing exercises, communication, professional help, etc.
We don't want to see anymore cases like the man who almost kill her baby of almost a week of life, because he wanted to have a boy, not a girl. That are the kinds of things that proves us there are not qualified people to have children, so parents can control themselves or think two times what they are doing before they think if they want to have a baby.

Two weeks at camp California!

Mrs. Helen Ryan:
Thank you very much because of this opportunity you are giving me, I feel so lucky right now to show my talents and win for them.
According to the information you need, I can communicate you that I can only travel in July, because I need some more time to recover my breath since the last competition, as you may know, was not very easy. My leg is not very good and I prefer to get rest.
About the accommodation, I prefer log cabins rather than tents, because log cabins are more comfortable than tents and I'm kind of scared of bugs and I wouldn't like it a bee or a mosquito in my ear at night; besides I don't want a back pain in the mornings.
In my opinion, despite I love swimming and painting, I prefer to do the kinds of activities which could allow me to discover a talent in me, such as sailing and photography, although I think I got so much things to give in those areas, because I love to take photographs, and not just to friends or myself as everybody does, but take pictures of places and people I have never seen, or the orange sky in spring on the afternoons, or waves crushing against a big rock, I don't know, some thing like that, I don't know how "good" am I for this activity, but I really like it. On the other hand, I have always wanted to sail because there is no other thing I live more than sea... I recognize I don't know anything about sailing, but I learn fast and I can try hardly to learn everything I need, because is very interested for me make new stuff.
There is some things I want to know, for example, What about clothes? What kind of clothes I can go with because of the weather conditions on July and I want to know is someone will be waiting for me at the airport. Besides I want to know if meals run on you or I have to pay them, that is very important to me.

Thank you again for this amazing opportunity.

Of you consideration


Fernanda Maturana