New - Help at Hand Toolkit - Children Are Unbeatable! Wales - An online resource kit and guide. Contains activities, Information sheets, suggestions about which materials are best to use for various groups , such as parents, children, young people, students, professionals, policy makers.
The Bible and Discipline by Michael Jost
Ten Positive Parenting Hints by Jean Ellerby, SKIP Learning and Development Coordinator, Barnardos New Zealand
Ten reasonsI can't spank by Gregory K Popcak MSW, LCSW - a Catholic counsellor's critical examination of corporal punishment www.stophitting.com/religion/10reasons.php
Gentle Christian Mothers
www.gentlemothering.com
Articles include:
A Christian Look at Attachment Parenting by Jessica Wigley
To Spank or not to spank
Choosing not to spank; The Proverbs by Laurie Morgan
Gentle Mothering
Project Nospank
Index at www.nospank.net/toc.htm
The Bible and Positive Parenting www.nospank.net/bible1.htm
The dangers of spanking children
Advice of violence-prevention professionals compared with the advice of those who advocate smacking
www.nospank.net/perlin2.htm
Articles by Alice Miller include:
The Roots of Violence - an interview by Diane Connors nospank.net/miller4.htm
The Political Consequences of Child Abuse http://nospank.miller2.htm
Every Smack is a humiliation www.naturalchild.org/alice_miller/manifesto.html
Mary and Joseph-Parents to emulate www.nospank.net/miller13.htm
Center for Effective Discipline www.stophitting.com/religion/faithMaterial.php
Religion and Discipline
Material for the Faith Community-contains materials to use in congregation newsletters, religious education, discussion groups and for addresses and sermons.
New Resource : 'Positive Parenting: What it is and how to do it' Written by Child-Clinical Psychologist and Professor Joan E. Durrant, Canada. Information from the website of the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children
'Violence against children: a toolkit on positive discipline'
The toolkit has been developed by a regional group of experienced people working to end physical and humiliating punishment with support from Pepa Horno Goicoechea, Save the Children
To order a hard copy, contact: Prajwol Majekoo:
prajwolm@sca.savethechildren.se
with cc to Neha Bhandari Regional Communications Officer:
nehab@sca.savethechildren.se
'Thy Rod and Thy Staff They Comfort Me' - Christians and the Smacking Controversy by Samuel Martin. For reviews and details for ordering the book on the website www.biblechild.com
Non-violent parenting -Hindu Faith
Link to article 'Spare the Rod - Save the Child
by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/1997/2/1997-2-03.shtml
Positive Parenting for Muslim Parents-Kirklees Parenting Forum
www.kirklees.gov.uk/community/health-care/childrenandfamilies/parentsupport/madressahs.shtml
As part of the Madressah Project, the Parent Support Forum has produced a booklet (Positive Parenting: Give your child the best start in life). It is written for Muslim parents and describes the benefits of positive parenting and how this approach is supported by Islam.
If you have details of resources you would like to see included here please contact us: info@churchesfornon-violence.org