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Dealing with
Misbehavior:

Positive Child
Discipline

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How do you
deal with
misbehavior?
Lets find out!

The Past
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.
This statement
was made by Socrates, an
Athenian philosopher who lived from 469-399
BC.
Do you think anything has changed?

 lead to
incidents of
Aims to bullying and
control
violence in
school
cause children
to become
Negativ angry and
e
PUNISHMEN
aggressive or
means
T
have low selfesteem the
humiliate
Little or
child and
no
cause
lasting
positive psychological
pain that lasts
effect
long

 giving praise
and
opportunities to
Aims to practice
develop stimulates the
child to work,
learn, and
achieve.
provides
encouragement
Positive
, not painful,
DISCIPLINE
means
meaningless
consequences.
internalize a
positive
process of
Long
thinking
effect
and behaving
that can last a

Seven Principles for

Positive Child Discipline
1. Respect the childs dignity
2. Develop pro-social behaviour, selfdiscipline, and character
3. Maximize the childs active
participation
4. Respect the childs developmental
needs and quality of life
5. Respect the childs motivation and
life views
6. Assure fairness (equity and nondiscrimination) and justice
7. Promote solidarity

Keep in mind
and heart

As a result of UN Secretary
Generals Study on Violence
against
Children
(UNGA
Resolution 57/190) that is rooted
in childrens human right to
protection from all forms of
violence, a call for a POSITIVE
DISCIPLINE
is
widelyencouraged.

Remember that
once we were