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Advice columnist Virginia Ironside says: "Smacking is wrong because not only does it teach children that it's right for big people to hit little people, but it also teaches children that lack of self-control is perfectly okay. Smacking is violence, and we can't condemn violence in our city centres, and violence in relationships, if we are to at the same time to condone violence in our treatment of children. We only perpetuate the problem."
Advice on positive discipline
Resources for families
FREE MATERIAL
NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children)
Leaflets:
- Keeping your cool - a parent's guide to anger
- Not Naughty but Normal
- Encouraging Better Behaviour
- Handle with Care
- Behave Yourself
- Listening to Children
- Stress: A Guide for Parents
Can be downloaded on:
www.nspcc.org.uk/html/Home/Informationresources/forparentscarers.htm
To order a Parenting Pack, which includes all the leaflets, send an A4 stamped addressed envelope with five first class stamps to: "Parenting Pack", NSPCC, Weston House, 42 Curtain Road, London, EC2A 3NH.
Toddler Tips: For Parents by Parents can be downloaded on
www.nspcc.org.uk/inform/publications/downloads/ToddlerTips_pdf_gf25341.pdf
Save the Children
We can work it out
A booklet for parents on alternatives to smacking is available on:
From Breakfast to Bedtime
Children in Wales and NFPI. A booklet to help you and your child through the day...
O Amser Brecwast i Amser Gwely
Plant yng Nghymru a NFPI. Eich Helpu Chi A'ch Plant Drwy Gydol y Dydd...
Download From Breakfast to Bedtime (English)
Download O Amser Brecwast i Amser Gwely (Welsh)
Over the Top Behaviour in the Under 10s
Children in Wales and NFPI. A booklet giving advice on what is normal childhood behaviour and what is problem behaviour...
Ymddygiad Dros Benllestri Mewn Plant dan Ddeg
Ymddygiad arferol ymysg plant neu ymddygiad sy’n broblem - Plant yng Nghymru, NFPI a Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru...
Download Over the Top Behaviour in the Under 10s (English)
Download Ymddygiad Dros Benllestri Mewn Plant dan Ddeg (Welsh)
Parentline Plus
Leaflets:
- Thinking About Discipline
- Setting Limits
Can be downloaded from the website as pdfs or ordered by filling in the publications brochure (also available online) and posting to Parentline Plus, 520 Highgate Studios, 53-79 Highgate Road, London NW5 1TL
Telephone: 020 7284 5500.
www.parentlineplus.org.uk/publications
Free national helpline: 0808 800 2222 for confidential support and information.
Email helpline: parentsupport@parentlineplus.org.uk
The No Smacking Guide to Good Behaviour
by Penelope Leach
Two versions of this leaflet are available:
- for parents (also available in Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu and Gujerati)
- for childcare groups (nurseries, playgroups, daycare schemes, etc)
This leaflet, approximately 8"x 4", folds out into a two-sided A3 broad-sheet, and provides practical advice on positive discipline for those caring for babies, toddlers, pre-school and schoolchildren.
For single copies of either of these leaflets, send a C5 stamped addressed envelope with one 2nd class stamp to APPROACH Ltd., 94 White Lion Street, London, N1 9PF. To order multiple copies telephone 020 7713 0569.
Think Before You Smack, A4 sheet printed on both sides for use as poster and brief leaflet on what is wrong with smacking and the basics of positive discipline.
For a single copy, send a stamped addressed envelope (A4) with one 2nd class stamp to APPROACH Ltd., 94 White Lion Street, London, N1 9PF. To order multiple copies please telephone 020 7713 0569
Helping children with their behaviour
by Jennie Lindon
For a copy of this leaflet, send a stamped addressed envelope (C5 or A4) with one 2nd class stamp to Early Education, 136 Cavell Street, London E1 2JA.
To download a pdf or order multiple copies (up to 30 of this title) click here:
- Positive Parenting Leaflet - under - 3s
- Positive Parenting Leaflet - primary (3-11)
- Positive Parenting Leaflet - secondary (11 - 16)
Can be downloaded as pdfs on:
www.manchester.gov.uk/children/parents/help.htm
Joint Children's Unit, Manchester City Council, 3rd Floor, Overseas House, Quay Street, Manchester, M3 3BB
Telephone: 0161 234 7162
National Childminding Association (NCMA)
Sample Policies and Procedures for childminders has a section on managing children's behaviour, making it clear that physical punishment should never be used, can be downloaded on:
http://www.ncma.org.uk/download/po1_behaviour.doc
NCMA, Royal Court, 81 Tweedy Road, Bromley, Kent BR1 1TG
Telephone: 0845 880 0044
No Smacking Poster
A3 size from the Northern Ireland Childminding Association, 16/18 Mill Street, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT23 4LU
Telephone: 028 9181 1015
OTHER RESOURCES
Your Baby and Child
by Penelope Leach
Published by Dorling Kindersley.
£18.99 from all good bookshops.
NSPCC
- Encouraging Positive Discipline: A Guide for Professionals £1.50
- Understanding Your Baby £2.99
- Understanding Your Toddler £2.99
Online order: click here
Or contact: NSPCC Publications, Weston House, 42 Curtain Road, London., EC2A 3NH.
Email: publications@nspcc.org.uk
Telephone: 020 7825 7422
Save the Children
We Can Work it Out Training Pack
A support package for parent groups and those who work with parents.
This training pack provides materials for a half day workshop, helping parents reflect on how they could manage their children's behaviour without resorting to emotional or physical punishment.
It helps parents, in a supportive environment, consider what behaviour they find challenging; how adults respond when angry; what children see happening; and how children learn challenging behaviour from adults. It goes on to offer advice on how to help children focus on requests from parents, and how to help young children understand and improve their behaviour.
The training pack comes with 20 booklets offering further tips and advice, which parents can take home. Alternatively, the full text of this booklet is available online for you to read, print off and use immediately.
Published 1999 Training pack: £12.50
Additional parent booklets available at £3 for 20
The link to the on line fully published parent booklet on alternatives to smacking We can work it out is www.savethechildren.org.uk
Let's Work Together: Managing children's behaviour training pack
Provides a trainers' half-day workshop for those who work with other people's children: childminders, nursery or family centre workers, playgroup/pre-school workers, teachers, creche workers, and after-school workers or nannies.
The aims of the workshop are: to identify children's behaviour which is challenging to adults; to identify the techniques adults use to control challenging behaviour; and to identify ways adults can reinforce positive behaviour in children.
The pack provides guidance for tutors and a complete section for students to work through and take away, and gives details for further reading and resources.
Published 1996 £12.50
We Can Work it Out
This video comprises a series of three 25-minute programmes about positive parenting. It was produced by the Open School Network, in collaboration with Save the Children. The series looks at how we can all learn ways of managing children's behaviour by moving from the negative to the positive in our language, attitude and actions.
Published 2001 £9.50
Order Save the Children Publications:
By email: orders@nbninternational.com
By fax: 01752 202333
By telephone: 01752 202301
By post: Orders Department, NBN International, Estover Road, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 7PY
Birth to Five: 2006 Edition
An easy-to-use and practical guide for parents. It gives the latest advice and information on all aspects of child health, immunisation, healthy eating, childhood illnesses and child safety. Chapter 4 covers habits and behaviour. DH Publications Orderline, PO Box 777, London SE1 6XH
Telephone: 0870 155 54 55
Can be downloaded as a pdf by clicking here:
What Can a Parent Do?
What Can the Parent of a Teenager Do?
£6.50 each plus £2.00 p&p from Family Caring Trust, 8 Ashtree Enterprise Park, Newry, BT34 1BY.
Telephone: 028 3026 4174. An order form can be downloaded on the website: http://www.familycaring.co.uk/course_parents.htm
Managing Behaviour
Fostering Network booklet updated 1996.
£4.00 (£2.00 for members) distributed by Central Books Ltd., 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN.
Telephone: 0845 458 9911
Managing Children's Behaviour
A booklet to assist childminders and parents in setting limits to children's behaviour.
£3.00 each from the Northern Ireland Childminding Association, 16/18 Mill Street, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT23 4LU
Telephone: 028 9181 1015
'Respecting Children - A handbook on growing up without violence'
This handbook is concerned with finding ways of promoting non-violent relationships between children and the key adults in their lives. Topics include needs and rights of 21st-century children, creating non-violent environments, moving on from smacking, supporting children and parents in the local context, developing a whole child policy, positive non-violent parenting. The pack also looks at ways in which people can actively campaign and contribute towards ending legalised violence against children, including corporal punishment.
To order a copy contact the Churches' Network for Non-violence.
email: info@churchesfornon-violence.org
CD - £3 - Book: £7 - cost includes postage
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