Discipline Policy
		Discipline in our Child Care is to be considered as an aspect of learning guidance, and not as a form of punishment. Child Care Providers will discipline the child in any manner deemed necessary which is not abusive and does not include corporal punishment. Because the safety of all children must be protected, behavior like pushing, throwing things, hitting, and biting must be discouraged. Our Child Care approaches discipline using the method of Logical Consequences. ("A New Approach to Discipline: Logical Consequences" by Rudolf Dreikurs, MD and Loren Grey, PhD.) The purpose of discipline is: a) to provide an environment conducive to order and learning. b) to promote character training that will later help the children with toilet training, sharing, respect of others, and so on. c) to establish clear and simple limits that will give the little ones the security of knowing what they can and cannot do. d) to offer an environment that has a sense of routine, schedule, order and peace. e) napping is part of discipline, routine, schedule, and establishing of limits for children.There will be two nap periods in a day:mid-morning and mid-afternoon. Without discipline there will be no progressive learning. It will be very helpful if Parents would share their "home discipline" plan with the Child Provider, in order to promote mutual support, and not to give the child a sense of conflict and confusion.