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Discipline - Helpful Links

What is Discipline?
What You Must Remember
How Does Safer Child Feel About Spanking?
What We Found to Be Most Effective for Correcting Behavior in a Young Child
Suggestions for Disciplining Younger Children (while shopping, traveling or at home)
Disciplining an Older Child
Safer Child Families in Crisis Pages (including tips for prevention of abuse in your home)
Safer Child Communication Page
Self-Assessment Survey -- Do You Need to Make a Change?
What Constitutes Neglect or Physical Abuse?
Helpful Links

What Constitutes Neglect or Physical Abuse?

	Child Welfare Information Gateway (service of the Children's Bureau)
	American Academy of Pediatrics - AAP policy called "Guidance for Effective Discipline." Includes recommendations, research and warnings against certain types of discipline.
	Remember: Never, Never, Never shake a baby or young child! See Medem (do a search on "shaken baby") for information on how to prevent (and detect) Shaken Baby Syndrome
	An attorney discusses the "Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse and Neglect"

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Links:

	American Academy of Pediatrics - AAP policy called "Guidance for Effective Discipline." Includes recommendations, research and warnings against certain types of discipline.
	Parent Teen Connection
	Heptune Journal of Lore and Levity - essay on dealing with a child's temper tantrum

	Gavin de Becker & Associates (opposes any form of hitting as punishment)
	World Corporal Punishment Research - "1,000 pages of information on official corporal punishment around the world, past and present"

	Project NoSpank
	Safer Child Families in Crisis Pages (including tips for prevention of abuse, and links to mental health professionals)
	Safer Child Communication Page
	Self-Assessment Survey -- Do You Need to Make a Change?
	What Were You Taught as a Child? - are poor communication skills or unresolved issues interfering with your ability to parent or to be happy?
	Our Thoughts on What Children Need to Grow Up Happy and Confident
	What We Would Like All Young Adults To Know
	Safer Child's What Makes for a Great Parent?
	Safer Child page on Morality, Ethics & Manners
	Safer Child Tips for Prevention of Abuse in Your Home
	The Discipline Book: How to Have a Better-Behaved Child From Birth to Age Ten - by William Sears, M.D. and Martha Sears, R.N.
	Safer Child page on Staying in Touch With Your Children
	Center for the Study of Parental Acceptance and Rejection - conducts research on issues surrounding parental acceptance and rejection
	Childswork ChildsPlay - (commercial) -- sells resources, games and books "to address the social and emotional needs of children and adolescents"
	A Relentless Hope: Surviving the Storm of Teen Depression - Gary E. Nelson

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