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POSITIVE DISCIPLINE
Resources for the promotion of positive discipline
This section of the website lists a wide range of resources for the promotion of positive, non-violent discipline among parents, teachers, other adults who work with children and children and young people themselves.
Law reform to prohibit all corporal punishment of children is a human rights imperative (see “Human rights and law”). Prohibition cannot wait for a transformation in traditional attitudes and practices but should be seen as the foundation for that transformation. The promotion of law reform, awareness raising about children’s right to protection and, where reform has been achieved, awareness raising about the law should go hand in hand with the promotion of positive, non-violent and respectful relationships with children in all settings of their lives.
While civil society organisations can and do raise awareness about children’s right to protection and about positive discipline, ultimately, governments should take responsibility for this process, including through providing education and training for parents and professionals. For more information on promoting positive discipline in conjunction with promoting law reform, see the “Reform” section of this website and the Global Initiative’s Campaigns Manual (2010).
How the resources are sorted
Resources for parents will be useful for all those in a caregiving role, including for example extended family members and foster carers. The term “parents” is used for convenience. Similary, resources aimed at the home setting will also be useful in other settings where children live or are cared for.
The majority of resources listed as being for teachers or aimed at school settings are primarily focussed on education settings, but some could also apply in other settings where children are cared for and be used by other professionals working directly with children.
Resources for trainers are those which provide materials for the promotion of positive discipline to groups of parents, teachers, children or young people. The intended audience of the training is listed in the “About” section for each resource. It is not necessary to be an experienced trainer to use the resources for trainers – many provide a complete guide to running training sessions.
Resources for professionals are aimed primarily at those working at a policy level for children, for example policy-makers and advocates.
Resources are listed here according to their primary audience(s) and setting(s) but may also be useful to others falling outside those categories. Resources for all audiences and settings may be useful for advocates of law reform to prohibit all corporal punishment – for example, to address concerns about prohibition and as part of understanding what is needed for its implementation.
All resources are freely available unless otherwise stated.
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Resources
Resource: Positive Discipline: What it is and how to do it (2007)
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents, trainers
Setting: Home
About: Manual (332 pages) which sets out the foundations and principles of positive discipline and provides exercises for parents to help them put the principles into practice. Written by Joan Durrant and published in 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand by Save the Children Sweden and the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children.
Languages: English, French, Khmer, Russian, Thai
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Resource: Positive Discipline: What it is and how to do it summary (2007)
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: Four-page summary of the manual Positive Discipline: What it is and how to do it, written by Joan Durrant and published in 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand by Save the Children Sweden and the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children.
Languages: English
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Resource: Positive Discipline: What it is and how to do it – A manual for facilitators, educators and trainers (2007)
Format: Publication
Audience: Trainers
Setting: Home
About: Manual (213 pages) for facilitators, trainers and professionals who work individually with parents, future parents, foster parents and/or extended family members, which can be used as a guide in leading group discussions. Designed for use in conjunction with the book Positive Discipline: What it is and How to do it. Written by Joan Durrant and published in 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand by Save the Children Sweden and the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children.
Languages: English
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Resource: Positive Discipline in Everyday Teaching: Guidelines for Educators (2010)
Format: Publication
Audience: Teachers
Setting: School
About: Manual (330 pages) which sets out the foundations and principles of positive discipline in the classroom and provides exercises for teachers to help them put the principles into practice. Written by Joan Durrant and published in 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand by Save the Children Sweden Southeast Asia and the Pacific Regional Office.
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Resource: Positive Discipline in Everyday Teaching: Guidelines for Educators summary (2010)
Format: Publication
Audience: Teachers
Setting: School
About: Four-page summary of the manual Positive Discipline in Everyday Teaching: Guidelines for Educators, written by Joan Durrant and published in 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand by Save the Children Sweden Southeast Asia and the Pacific Regional Office.
Languages: English, Tetum
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Resource: Positive Discipline: What it is and how to do it - Training for Professionals, Workshops for Parents and Teachers
Format: Publication
Audience: Trainers, professionals
Setting: Home, school
About: Leaflet giving information on how Save the Children can contribute to training sessions which qualify participants to deliver positive discipline training to parents and/or teachers.
Languages: English
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Resource: Good School Toolkit (second edition – 2011)
Format: Publications
Audience: Teachers, trainers, professionals
Setting: School
About: The Good School Toolkit, consisting of booklets, posters, a training manual and associated materials, contains a set of ideas and tools that will help educators explore what a good school is and guide them through a process that will help them create one. In good schools, corporal punishment is not used and positive discipline is practiced. The toolkit was developed by Raising Voices with the help of schools in Uganda and deliberately focuses on ideas and activities that do not require specific financial resources.
Languages: English, some information in Kiswahili
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Resource: Traditional Maori Parenting: An Historical Review of Literature of Traditional Maori Child Rearing Practices in Pre-European Times (2011)
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents, trainers, professionals
Setting: Home
About: A review of literature, published in 2011, exploring Maori parenting practices and the philosophy supporting these practices before 1642, which were used by Te Kahui Mana Ririki to develop the Tikanga Whakatipu Ririki parenting model.
Languages: English
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Resource: Spare the Kids
Format: Website (www.sparethekids.com)
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: The mission of Spare the Kids is to provide Black parents, families and communities in the USA with a full range of alternatives to corporal punishment. Spare the Kids provides workshops, cartoons, a blog and a problem page on non-violent discipline.
Languages: English
Resource: Positive Parenting: Give your child the best start in life (2007)
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home, school
About: One-page leaflet which discusses how positive parenting encourages better behaviour and why smacking is harmful to children, created as part of a project promoting child protection and positive parenting in madresseahs and Islamic part-time schools. Written by Shakeel Hafez and published in 2007 in the UK by Kirklees Metropolitan Council.
Resource: Safe You and Safe Me (2006)
Format: Publication
Audience: Children
Setting: Home, school
About: Book (50 pages) designed to help children aged 7-12 to learn about the types of violence faced by children throughout the world and give them some ideas on how they can protect themselves from violence. Written by Ravi Karkara, Fahmida Shoma Jabeen and Neha Bhandari and published in 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden by Save the Children.
Languages: English
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Resource: Learn Without Fear: Youth in Action Against Violence in Schools (2009)
Format: Publication
Audience: Young people
Setting: School
About: Manual (63 pages) designed to help young people set up their own projects against violence in schools. Provides exercises and activities for individuals and groups of young people. Published in 2009 in Hamburg, Germany by Plan.
Languages: English, French, German
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Resource: Positive Disciplines Training Manual (2009)
Format: Publication
Audience: Trainers
Setting: Home, school
About: Manual (7 parts each of 17-47 pages) containing techniques, case studies and advice for those training parents and teachers on positive discipline. Written by Le Van Hao and published in 2009 in Hanoi, Vietnam by Plan in Vietnam.
Languages: English
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Resource: Raising Children as Good Hindus (2005)
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: Feature (16 pages) in Hinduism Today magazine on Hindu childrearing, including using positive discipline. Written by Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami and published in 2005 in Hawaii, USA by the Himalayan Academy.
Languages: English
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Resource: Parenting with Love (2009)
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: Feature (16 pages) in Hinduism Today magazine providing an introduction to positive discipline and giving “14 proven strategies for raising children without blame, shame or pain”. Written by Jane Nelsen and published in 2009 in Hawaii, USA by the Himalayan Academy.
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Resource: Saprema Vyavaharah: Positive Discipline (2002)
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: Chapter of the book Living with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Culture, available online. Provides seven lessons on positive discipline, one for each day of the week. Written by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami and published in 2002 in Hawaii, USA by the Himalayan Academy.
Languages: English
Resource: Parenting in Jesus’ Footsteps
Format: Website (www.parentinginjesusfootsteps.org)
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: Website which examines the teachings of Jesus Christ and applies them to the parent/child relationship, including promoting the use of gentle discipline and ending the use of corporal punishment.
Languages: English
Resource: Help at Hand toolkit
Format: Website (www.helpathandtoolkit.info)
Audience: Children, young people, parents, trainers
Setting: Home
About: Online toolkit which includes factsheets and activities for a variety of audiences. Aims to promote equal protection for children, including through legal reform, and to providing information to parents about alternatives to “smacking” and using a positive approach to bringing up children. Developed by ’Sdim Curo Plant!/Children Are Unbeatable! in Wales, UK.
Resource: Positive Discipline Techniques to Promote Positive Behaviour in Children: Training Manual for Facilitators (2008)
Format: Publication
Audience: Trainers
Setting: School
About: Manual (16 pages) which gives trainers a 3 – 5 hour session for delivery with teachers and others working with children, aimed at promoting the use of positive discipline techniques instead of corporal punishment. Developed as part of the Save the Children India Tsunami Response Programme. Written by Philippa Ramsden and Dr. Buvaneswari and published in 2008 by Save the Children.
Languages: English
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Resource: Positive discipline in the inclusive, learning-friendly classroom: A guide for teachers and teacher educators (2006)
Format: Publication
Audience: Teachers, trainers
Setting: School
About: Book (110 pages) containing tools that teachers can use to create an active, positive learning environment for students, in which their behaviour is guided effectively. Published in 2006 in Bangkok, Thailand by UNESCO.
Languages: English
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Resource: Positive discipline techniques: regional capacity building and advocacy workshop to replace corporal/physical and humiliating and degrading punishment of girls and boys (2005)
Format: Publication
Audience: Trainers, professionals
Setting: Home, school
About: Report of a regional workshop run by Save the Children in India in 2004. Includes information on the negative impact of corporal punishment, positive discipline techniques which can be taught to others and advocacy against corporal punishment worldwide. Written by Neha Bhandari and Ravi Karkara and published in 2005 in Kathmandu, Nepal by Save the Children Sweden.
Languages: English
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Resource: A Toolkit on Positive Discipline: with particular emphasis on South and Central Asia (2007)
Format: Publication
Audience: Young people, parents, teachers, trainers
Setting: Home, school
About: Toolkit (191 pages) which is designed to equip anyone who is involved with children with precise tools and concrete activities to raise disciplined children without using physical and psychological punishment. It can also be used with older children who could make use of some of the tools in their own collective efforts to prevent violence against children. Published in 2007 in Kathmandu, Nepal by Save the Children Sweden.
Languages: English
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Resource: Childrearing Without Violence: Public Education against Corporal Punishment of Children and Promotion of Positive Discipline in Families and Communities (2006)
Format: Publication
Audience: Trainers, professionals
Setting: Home, school
About: Report of a workshop run by Save the Children and partner organisations in Thailand in 2006 which provides information and guidance on running public education campaigns. Published in 2006 in Bangkok, Thailand by Save the Children Sweden.
Languages: English
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Resource: Non-violent discipline: a guide for training professionals (2008)
Format: Publication
Audience: Trainers
Setting: Home
About: Guide (62 pages) to running a two-day workshop with professionals who work with children and families on non-violent discipline. Published in 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand by Save the Children Sweden.
Languages: English
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Resource: Encouraging Better Behaviour
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: Leaflet (11 pages) for parents on positive discipline. Published in London, UK by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC).
Languages: English
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Resource: Keeping Your Cool
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: Leaflet (11 pages) for parents on managing stress and anger. Published in London, UK by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC).
Languages: English
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Resource: We Can Work It Out booklet (2008)
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: Booklet (13 pages) for parents which gives advice on how to develop children's co-operation and self-discipline without resorting to smacking. Accompanied by We Can Work It Out manual. Published in 2008 by Save the Children.
Languages: Arabic (free), English (for purchase)
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Resource: We Can Work It Out manual (2008)
Format: Publication
Audience: Trainers
Setting: Home
About: Manual (25 pages) which provides material for a half-day workshop with parents on how they can manage their children's behaviour without resorting to emotional or physical punishment. Accompanied by We Can Work It Out booklet. Published in 2008 by Save the Children.
Languages: Arabic (free), English (for purchase)
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Resource: Let’s Work Together manual (2008)
Audience: Trainers
Setting: Home, school
About: Manual (19 pages) which provides material for a half-day workshop for those who work with other people’s children: childminders, nursery or family centre workers, playgroup/pre-school workers, teachers, crèche workers, and after-school workers or nannies. The workshop aims to identify children’s behaviour which is challenging to adults, identify the techniques adults use to control challenging behaviour and identify ways adults can reinforce positive behaviour in children. Published in 2008 by Save the Children.
Languages: Arabic (free), English (for purchase)
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Resource: Disciplining Children with Kindness: A Shiite Shari’a Perspective (2007)
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents, teachers, trainers, professionals
Setting: Home, school
About: Texts from seven Ayatollahs highlighting the main Islamic sources and guidance on childrearing. Published in 2007 in Tehran, Iran by UNICEF Iran.
Languages: English
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Resource: Respecting Children: a handbook on growing up without violence (2006)
Format: Publication
Audience: Trainers
Setting: Home
About: Handbook (162 pages) providing materials designed to promote non-violent relationships between children and the key adults in their lives in churches and communities. Contains eight topics which can be run as stand-alone sessions of 1 – 2 hours each or as an eight-week course. Written by the Churches’ Network for Non-violence and published in 2006 in London, UK by the United Reformed Church.
Languages: English
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Resource: Basic Facts About Corporal Punishment (2010)
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents, teachers
Setting: Home, school
About: Leaflet (1 page) giving facts about corporal punishment and suggesting alternatives to it. Published in 2010 in Windhoek, Namibia by the Legal Assistance Centre.
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Resource: Alternatives to Corporal Punishment: a one day training session (2010)
Format: Publication
Audience: Trainers
Setting: Home, school
About: Training pack (50 pages) designed to help trainers educate community members about alternatives to corporal punishment. Published in 2010 in Windhoek, Namibia by the Legal Assistance Centre, Namibia.
Languages: English
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Resource: Alternatives to Corporal Punishment Comic 1 (2010)
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: First of two comics advising parents about alternatives to corporal punishment. Published in 2010 in Windhoek, Namibia by the Legal Assistance Centre, Namibia.
Languages: English
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Resource: Alternatives to Corporal Punishment Comic 2 (2010)
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: Second of two comics advising parents about alternatives to corporal punishment. Published in 2010 in Windhoek, Namibia by the Legal Assistance Centre, Namibia.
Languages: English
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Resource: Training Session on Alternatives to Corporal Punishment (2009)
Format: Publication
Audience: Teachers, trainers
Setting: Home, school
About: Training session for children on alternatives to corporal punishment. Published in 2009 in Windhoek, Namibia by the Legal Assistance Centre, Namibia.
Languages: English
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Resource: The production of the film on alternatives to corporal punishment: A Betta Way (2010)
Format: Publication
Audience: Trainers, professionals
Setting: Home, school
About: Summary of the experience of the Legal Assistance Centre in Namibia in promoting alternatives to corporal punishment through creating and distributing a film and accompanying materials in 2010.
Languages: English
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Resource: Childrearing without Violence: A Practical Guide for Families and Communities (2003)
Format: Publication
Audience: Trainers, professionals
Settings: Home
About: A guide (90 pages) for use by social workers, community members, NGO staff and government employees in their work to promote non-violent childrearing. The guide promotes a type of community-based action that relies on participation and which can be employed by any relevant local organisation. The English version of the guide, aimed at countries in Southeast Asia Pacific and published in 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand by Save the Children Sweden, draws significantly on, but is not an exact translation of, the original Portuguese version, published in 2003 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Promundo and the International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood (CIESPI).
Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Resource: Ending Corporal and Humiliating Punishments: a manual to inform and empower fathers, mothers and caregivers of children (2010)
Format: Publication
Audience: Trainers
Setting: Home
About: Manual (74 pages) providing information on corporal punishment and a series of workshops for groups of parents. Published in 2010 in Rio de Janeiro by Promundo.
Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Resource: Our Right to be Protected From Violence: Activities for Learning and Taking Action for Children and Young People (2006)
Format: Publication
Audience: Young people
Setting: Home, school
About: Book (76 pages) for young people over the age of 12 with information about violence and ideas for actions that groups of young people can take to prevent violence and respond to it. Written by Susan Fountain and published in 2006 to accompany the report of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Study on Violence against Children.
Languages: English
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Resource: Gentle Christian Mothers website: Gentle Discipline section
Format: Website (www.gentlechristianmothers.com/topics/gentlediscipline.php)
Audience: Parents
Settings: Home
About: Website promoting the use of “gentle discipline” through articles and a forum.
Languages: English
Resource: Supporting the Youth and Strengthening Families
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: Leaflet (3 pages) containing parenting tips, published by the Sikh Awareness Society.
Languages: English
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Resource: Meet the Blobs: Stop smacking (2010)
Format: Publication
Audience: Children
Setting: Home
About: Booklet (9 pages) for young children, containing activities about their right to protection from all violence. Published in 2010 in the UK by the Churches’ Network for Non-violence.
Languages: English
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Resource: Policy to support positive parenting
Format: Publication
Audience: Professionals
Setting: Home
About: Leaflet (6 pages) which lays out a set of general principles that underlie the concept of positive parenting and guidelines on how policymakers can support it. Published in Strasbourg, France by the Council of Europe.
Languages: English, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Russian, Spanish
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Resource: Parenting in contemporary Europe: a positive approach (2007)
Format: Publication
Audience: Professionals
Setting: Home
About: Book (175 pages) which addresses the core issues related to positive parenting and non-violent upbringing, with particular emphasis on parents' entitlement to support from the state in carrying out their parental tasks. Published in 2007 by the Council of Europe.
Languages: English, French, Croatian (all for purchase)
Resource: Comment Faire Sans Fessée? (2010)
Format: Video
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: Television show about how to do without smacking, with family consultant Catherine Dumonteil-Kremer and guests, broadcast in 2010.
Languages: French
Resource: Systematisation of an Experience: Training Multipliers to Promote Positive Child Raising and End Humiliating, Degrading and Corporal Punishment (2006)
Format: Publication
Audience: Professionals
Setting: Home
About: Book (55 pages) about the experience of running positive discipline training with parents in Colombia in 2005-6. Published in 2006 in Bogota, Colombia by Save the Children UK, Fondo para la Accion Ambiental y la Niñez and Departamento Administativo de Bienestar Social del Distrito de Bogota.
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Resource: A Teacher’s Guide to Positive Discipline (2008)
Format: Publication
Audience: Teachers
Setting: Home
About: Book (48 pages) which provides teachers with a range of practical tools and techniques to strengthen positive discipline in the classroom. Published in 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa by RAPCAN.
Languages: English
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Resource: Education World
Format: Website (www.educationworld.com)
Audience: Teachers
Setting: School
About: Website containing a large database of resources for teachers covering classroom management.
Languages: English
Resource: Alfie Kohn website
Format: Website (www.alfiekohn.org)
Audience: Teachers, parents
Setting: Home, school
About: Website containing articles and details of books by Alfie Kohn, a writer who criticises the use of competition, rewards and punishment in educating and caring for children and advocates “unconditional parenting”.
Languages: English
Resource: Discipline and Punishment
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: Chapter of Eli Newberger’s book The men they will become: the nature and nurture of male character. It offers a critical perspective on corporal punishment and its effects on boys, and on some of the alternatives available, and introduces “Inductive Discipline”, which builds on the loving relationship between adult and child, the distinction between feelings and behaviour, and the importance of reason in setting rules that are acceptable to boys.
Languages: English
Resource: Empathic Parenting website
Format: Website (www.empathicparenting.org)
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: Website of the Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children which promotes the concept of empathic parenting.
Languages: English
Resource: Alice Miller website
Format: Website (www.alice-miller.com)
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: Website containing articles and details of books by Alice Miller (1923 – 2010), an internationally recognised expert on the causes and effects of child abuse including physical punishment, and on violence and its cost to society.
Languages: English, French, German, Spanish
Resource: The Natural Child Project
Format: Website (www.naturalchild.org)
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: Website containing articles promoting compassionate parenting and natural learning, including many on “gentle guidance” of children.
Languages: English
Resource: Parenting without Punishing
Format: Website (www.nopunish.net)
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: Website containing a book and articles by Norm Lee, who has developed an approach to parenting which he calls the “New Non-Punitive Parenting Paradigm” (NN-PPP), based on the principles of respect for children as thinking and feeling human beings with full membership in the family and on “Democratic Discipline”.
Languages: English
Resource: Alternatives to Corporal Punishment: The Learning Experience (2000)
Format: Publication
Audience: Teachers
Setting: School
About: Report (35 pages) created to support the prohibition of corporal punishment in schools in South Africa. Published in 2000 by the South African Department of Education.
Languages: English
Resource: The Tree by the River story book (2008)
Format: Publication
Audience: Children, young people
Setting: School
About: Story book (16 pages) for children about corporal and humiliating punishment and the need for positive discipline. For use in conjunction with The Tree by the River activity book. Published in 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa by RAPCAN.
Languages: English
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Resource: The Tree by the River activity book (2008)
Format: Publication
Audience: Children, young people
Setting: School, home
About: Activity book (48 pages) for children that explores the impact of corporal punishment and promotes positive discipline. For use in conjunction with The Tree by the River story book. Published in 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa by RAPCAN.
Languages: English
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Resource: I Shan’t Say This Again: training teachers in behaviour management (2010)
Format: Publication
Audience: Teachers
Setting: School
About: Book containing suggestions for school organisation and classroom practice in working with children whose behaviour is a concern. Written by John Bayley, Lynda Haddock and Nick Peacey and published in 2010 (2nd edition) in London, UK by the Institute of Education.
Languages: English (for purchase)
Resource: Strategies with Kids: Information for Parents (SKIP) website
Format: Website (www.skip.org.nz)
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: Website created by the New Zealand government to provide support, information and parenting strategies for parents and caregivers of 0-5 year olds. Includes pamphlets and booklets on managing behaviour and other parenting issues.
Languages: Arabic, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), English, Farsi, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Maori, Samoan, Spanish, Tongan
Resource: The SPARKE Way: Developing a child-centric approach to positive discipline (2011)
Format: Publication
Audience: Teachers
Setting: School
About: Book (75 pages) containing information for teachers about child development, learning difficulties, positive discipline strategies and children’s rights. The book was created as part of the Supporting Positive Alternatives for Raising Kindness in Education (SPARKE) project, which seeks to put a stop to the use of corporal punishment and thereby end physical, verbal and emotional violence against children by delivering teacher training on positive discipline and alternatives to corporal punishment in selected schools for Tibetan refugee children in India and Nepal. Written by Aparna Massey and Jenny Neldemo and published in 2011 in Dehra Dun, India by IM-SOIR, The Swedish Organization for Individual Relief.
Languages: English, Hindi, Nepali, Tibetan (all for purchase: contact Cedar Woods Consulting Group)
Resource: La Crinza de Nuestros Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes: ¿Cómo Realizarla Sin Violencia? (2011)
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents, trainers
Setting: Home
About: Book (158 pages) about how to bring up boys, girls and adolescents without violence. Includes information about child development, parenting styles and non-punitive discipline. Written by Berna Iskandar and published in 2011 in Caracas, Venezuela by Cecodap.
Languages: Spanish
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Resource: ¡No me hace caso! ¿Qué hago? (2011)
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: Book providing tools for bringing children up without violence. Written by Oscar Misle and Fernando Pererira and published in 2011 in Venezuela by Cecodap.
Languages: Spanish (for purchase)
Resource: Quisiera que me hicieran caso, sin necesidad de pegarles… (2007)
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: Booklet (16 pages) for parents, telling the story of an older parent advising a younger parent on how to make sure that her children listen to her without hitting them. Created as part of the “Proyecto Erradicación del Castigo Físico, Campaña Educa Sin Pegar” (“Eradication of Physical Punishment Project, Educate without hitting campaign”) run by Fundación Paniamor. Written by Paulina Saavedra Quiroga y María Luz Gutiérrez Chavarría and published in 2007 in San José, Costa Rica by Fundación Paniamor.
Languages: Spanish
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Resource: Educar Sin Pegar es Posible y Necesario: Líderes Religiosos – Guía Metodológica (2009)
Format: Publication
Audience: Trainers
Setting: Home
About: Guide (74 pages) for religious leaders to use to run five sessions with groups of parents which give information, including using the Bible, about not using physical punishment. Created as part of the “Proyecto Erradicación del Castigo Físico, Campaña Educa Sin Pegar” (“Eradication of Physical Punishment Project, Educate without hitting campaign”) run by Fundación Paniamor. Written by María Luz Gutiérrez Chavarría and Yeimy Gabriela Flores Aguilar and published in 2009 in San José, Costa Rica by Fundación Paniamor.
Languages: Spanish
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Resource: Serie de Folletos: Educa sin Pegar – información para madres y padres
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: Series of leaflets (2 pages) for parents on: physical punishment, being a child, being a parent, bringing up children and family conflict. Published in San José, Costa Rica by Fundación Paniamor.
Languages: Spanish
Resource: Lucha contra el castigo físico en la familia: manual para la formación (2004)
Format: Publication
Audience: Trainers
Setting: Home
About: Manual (203 pages) for facilitators, giving the outline of a five-session course for parents, giving information about resolving family conflict without physical punishment. Adaption for Latin America of the Educa No Pegues (“Educate, do not hit”) manual, created for Save the Children Spain, UNICEF, Ceapa and Concapa in Spain in 1999. Published in 2004 in in San José, Costa Rica by Fundación Paniamor and Save the Children.
Languages: Spanish
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Resource: Educar sin Pegar es Posible y Necesario: Familias y Comunidades - Guía Metodológica (2009)
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents, trainers
Setting: Home
About: Guide (53 pages) designed for parents to use in training other parents in positive discipline techniques and not using corporal punishment through a five session course. Created as part of the “Proyecto Erradicación del Castigo Físico, Campaña Educa Sin Pegar” (“Eradication of Physical Punishment Project, Educate without hitting campaign”) run by Fundación Paniamor. Written by María Luz Gutiérrez Chavarría and Yeimy Gabriela Flores Aguilar and published in 2009 in San José, Costa Rica by Fundación Paniamor.
Languages: Spanish
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Resource: Educar sin Pegar: Mi Voz Habla de Paz – Guía Metodológica
Format: Publication
Audience: Trainers, teachers
Setting: Home
About: Guide (56 pages) providing activities to help children aged 4-7 or older learn about their right to be free from all corporal punishment. Designed to be run over two weeks, with one 25-minute session a day. Created as part of the “Proyecto Erradicación del Castigo Físico, Campaña Educa Sin Pegar” (“Eradication of Physical Punishment Project, Educate without hitting campaign”) run by Fundación Paniamor. Published in 2009 in San José, Costa Rica by Fundación Paniamor.
Languages: Spanish
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Resource: ABCs for Action and Advocacy: A Note On Positive Parenting and Non-Violent Discipline (2011)
Format: Publication
Audience: Professionals, trainers
Setting: Home
About: Note for action (27 pages) which aims to support religious communities and partners in promoting “positive parenting” and non-violent disciplining of children. Produced as part of the World Day of Prayer and Action for Children’s three-year theme (2011-2013) “Stop Violence Against Children” with a particular emphasis on encouraging positive parenting and non-violent discipline. Published in 2011 in New York, USA by World Day of Prayer and Action.
Languages: English
Resource: Beating Black Kids (2009)
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents
Setting: Home
About: Book about not beating Black children which aims to “get Black people to act more humanely with our children to help create people who feel good about themselves and the impact they are making in the world”. Written by Asadah Kirkland and published in 2009 in the USA.
Languages: English (for purchase)
Resource: Resource Packet on Alternatives to Corporal Punishment (2005)
Format: Publication
Audience: Parents, teachers
Setting: Home, school
About: Collection of ideas of alternatives to corporal punishment for parents and teachers. Written by Elizabeth Cardenas and published in 2005 in Belize.
Languages: English