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Dealing with Misbehavior:

Positive Child Discipline

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How do you deal with

misbehavior?Let’s find out!

“Children now love luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect for their elders, and they love chatter in the place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize over their teachers.”

The Past

This statement was made by Socrates, an Athenian philosopher who lived from 469-399 BC.

Do you think anything has changed?

Aims to control

• lead to incidents of bullying and

• violence in school

Negative

means

• cause children to become angry and

• aggressive or have low self-esteem

Little or no

lasting positive effect

• humiliate the child and cause

• psychological pain that lasts long

PUNISHMENT

Aims to develop

• giving praise and opportunities to practice

• stimulates the child to work, learn, and achieve.

Positive means

• provides encouragement, not painful, meaningless consequences.

Long effect

• internalize a positive process of thinking

• and behaving that can last a lifetime.

DISCIPLINE

Seven Principles forPositive Child Discipline

1. Respect the child’s dignity2. Develop pro-social behaviour, self-discipline, and character3. Maximize the child’s active participation4. Respect the child’s developmental needs and quality of life5. Respect the child’s motivation and life views6. Assure fairness (equity and non-

discrimination) and justice7. Promote solidarity

The Way Forward to Constructive Child Discipline. Paris: UNESCO Publishing, 2005.

Keep in mind and heart As a result of UN Secretary General’s Study on Violence against Children (UNGA Resolution 57/190) that is rooted in children’s human right to protection from all forms of violence, a call for a POSITIVE DISCIPLINE is widely-encouraged.

Remember that once we were children, too!