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
Choosing not to spank; The Proverbs by Laurie Morgan
Gentle Mothering
Parenting Freedom - Christian child discipline - it is not biblical to smack
Project Nospank
Index at www.nospank.net/toc.htm
The Bible and Positive Parenting www.nospank.net/bible1.htm
Articles by Alice Miller include:
The Roots of Violence - an interview by Diane Connors nospank.net/miller4.htm
Mary and Joseph-Parents to emulate www.nospank.net/miller13.htm
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
'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
NSPCC Positive parenting leaflets www.nspcc.org.uk/parenting
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.
Multi-religious resources click here
If you have details of resources you would like to see included here please contact us: info@churchesfornon-violence.org