Durrant JE. Corporal punishment and the law in global perspective. In: Dwyer JG, editor. Oxford Handbook of Children and the Law. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 2019. Manan Chaturvedi, the head of Rajasthan's child rights commission, promised to investigate. "We are forming a committee that will investigate this matter and then appropriate action will be taken after proper evidence is found," she said. "Not only the police, but those bystanders watching and taking videos should have been active. Had they stepped in, I don't think any of this would have happened." Spanking therapy uses spanking as a form of release. People may choose to take part in spanking therapy to release stress and responsibility, explore power roles, or work through negative emotions or trauma. However, there is limited scientific research on spanking therapy and its effectiveness. Gershoff ET, Sattler KMP, Ansari A. Strengthening causal estimates for links between spanking and children’s externalizing behavior problems. Psychol Sci. 2018;29(1):110-120. doi:10.1177/0956797617729816 Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children. Global progress: Countdown to universal prohibition. 2018; https://endcorporalpunishment.org/countdown/. Accessed 10 June 2021.

Saunders BJ. Ending the physical punishment of children by parents in the English-speaking world: the impact of language, tradition and law. Int J Child Rights. 2013;21(2):278–304. Williams RC, Biscaro A, Clinton J, Canadian Paediatric Society Early Years Task Force. Relationships matter: how clinicians can support positive parenting in the early years. 2019; Canadian Paediatric Society. Available at: https://www.cps.ca/en/documents/position/positive-parenting. Accessed 10 June 2021. At the global level, efforts to end physical punishment of children have been underway for half a century. The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) guarantees children protection from “all forms of physical or mental violence … while in the care of parent(s), legal guardian(s) or any other person who has the care of the child” [ 18]. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has explicitly identified physical punishment as a form of violence, calling its elimination “a key strategy for reducing and preventing all forms of violence in societies” [ 19]. The Committee has called on all State parties to the CRC to monitor their progress towards eliminating physical punishment, and to conduct research with children and their parents/carers to assess its prevalence and attitudes toward it [ 19]. Most recently, the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development set a target of eliminating all forms of violence against children (Target 16.2) [ 20]. In recognition of children’s rights to be protected from violence including corporal punishment, and in support of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, there has been an increased need for prevalence data and evidence that can inform effective prevention strategies [ 20]. Hielscher E, Moores C, Blenkin M, Jadambaa A, Scott JG. Intervention programs designed to promote healthy romantic relationships in youth: a systematic review. J Adolesc. 2021;92:194–236. Wissow LS. Ethnicity, income, and parenting contexts of physical punishment in a national sample of families with young children. Child Maltreat. 2001;6(2):118–29.And we’re also keen to hear people’s reminiscence about other schools in the area. What was the best one you went to – and what were the teachers like? Were there any funny incidents you’ll never forget? Get in touch - and send us photos of yourself from your school days. Perron JL, Lee CM, Laroche KJ, Ateah C, Clément M-È, Chan K. Child and parent characteristics associated with Canadian parents’ reports of spanking. Can J Commun Ment Health. 2014;33(2):31–45. While corporal punishment remains legal in 19 states, there have been efforts in some of those states to ban the practice. In May of 2021, Louisiana considered such a bill.

For example, rather than being paddled, students who damage school property might discuss their behavior with adults and other students involved and then contribute to repairing the property.Gershoff ET. Corporal punishment by parents and associated child behaviors and experiences: a meta-analytic and theoretical review. Psychol Bull. 2002;128(4):539–79. Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health. Guidance for effective discipline. Pediatrics. 1998;101(4):723–8.

C’mon start cleaning up," I told her as I tossed markers and crayons into a Tupperware bin and gathered up sheets of coloring paper. "I’ll help you but you need to put all the puzzle away." My daughter napped today which made the evening tantrum-free. After dinner she asked to play pretend and instructed me to be a student and she was the teacher. She set up all her My Little Ponies on her little table and began to “teach” them. The children belong to the Kanjar tribe, whose members usually live outside villages and towns as they are not socially accepted by other communities. A PENSIONER is luring teenage boys to take part in seedy spanking sessions – which he is filming just down the road from a Birmingham primary school.The current study supported previous findings that parents’ positive spanking beliefs are associated with an increased likelihood of parent-reported spanking [ 30, 31, 32]. Beyond this finding, this study found that parents’ beliefs were also associated with adolescent-reported spanking. Using multiple informants and finding consistent trends in the data extends knowledge and is a strength of this work.