• Discipline versus punishment
• Appropriate discipline techniques
• Inappropriate punishments

Discipline teaches children how to develop self-control and be responsible for their own actions.

Punishment teaches children in a painful way—and after the fact—that a bigger, stronger person doesn’t like something they did. Punishment is a means of control.

• talking through issues
• praising and encouraging
  
• modeling rules
  
• establishing clear and consistent expectations
  
• removing issue-related privileges
  
• allowing children to experience the logical consequences of their actions

Inappropriate Punishments

• corporal punishment, which means using physical force that may inflict pain, such as spanking, slapping or hitting
• depriving a child of basic rights or needs like food, clothing, shelter, bedding, or access to their parents or guardians
• physical punishment including shaking or forcefully pushing the child
  
• degrading actions including humiliation, ridicule or abuse
  
• group punishment for individual behaviour
  
• being punished by another child
  
• physical restraint, seclusion or confinement other than for the immediate safety of the child or another person
  • restraint is the act of intentionally restricting a child’s ability to move