Positive Discipline: Protect Children

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          This year’s theme “Isulong: Tamang Pag-aaruga sa Lahat ng Bata,” is a call to stop all forms of violence on children and pushes for a safe, nurturing and protective environment for them through positive discipline.The theme is also aligned with the key strategies of the Philippine Plan of Action to End Violence Against Children (PPAEVAC) 2017-2022 which translates the findings of the 2015 Philippine National Baseline Study on Violence Against Children (NBS-VAC) into specific action. 

          The celebration seeks to increase knowledge of parents or guardians or caregivers on how to handle or educate their children while in the cyberspace; intensify the advocacy of positive discipline in classrooms dynamics in daily teaching; provide space for children’s participation in the legislative advocacy; push for the passage of the Positive Discipline Bill and celebrate gains and successes on child rights promotions and protection of the country. Positive discipline, as stipulated in the Bill is disciplining children without resorting to physical or corporal punishment, such as spanking, hitting, slapping, shouting, or shaming.

          Philippines,  the month-long celebration is not just like celebrating as an ordinary children but also a campaign to end violence against children and to promote their physical, emotional, moral, spiritual and intellectual well-being.