SpankOut Day was started in America in 1998, to spread awareness around the need to end corporal punishment of children and to promote non violent ways of teaching children appropriate behaviour. It is celebrated on 30th April every year and encourages all parents, guardians and caregivers to refrain from hitting children on this day, as well as to find alternative methods of discipline through programs available in each community.
This year, the Gundersen Center for Effective Discipline is offering ‘No Hit Zone’ Resource Kits to 15 organisations who want to become a No Hit Zone.
No Hit Zone Kits include posters, educational brochures, vinyl decals, magnets and stickers. These resources are designed to serve as a visible sign that your organisation is a designated No Hit Zone supporting healthy kids and safer communities.
The Gundersen website tells us that:
“A No Hit Zone is an environment that supports a culture of safety and health where:
- No adult shall hit another adult.
- No adult shall hit a child.
- No child shall hit an adult.
- No child shall hit another child.”
If you’d like to apply for a kit, you have until Wednesday, March 22, 2017. The following dates may be worth nothing down too:
- Monday, March 27, 2017—Kit Recipients Announced
- Friday, May 19, 2017—After Action Report Due
We are not sure if the offer is limited to US organisations but give it a try and see how you go.
Thanks go to Professor Durrant for alerting us to this initiative.
Researching Reform 
this can only be a good thing. no more smacking children.
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Reblogged this on World4Justice : NOW! Lobby Forum..
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Telling boys never to hit each other?? If I wasn,’,t so politically correct I would say that sounds a good way to turn them into a lot of ………………..
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I grew up in that sort of muscular environment. When a an authority figure spent three years masturbating whilst he spanked me, it seemed completely normal.
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No Hit Zone is an environment that supports a culture of safety and health where:
◾No adult shall hit another adult.
◾No adult shall hit a child.
◾No child shall hit an adult.
◾No child shall hit another child.”
Well I agree with the first three but you will never stop boys hitting each other………..
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No Hit Zone is an environment that supports a culture of safety and health where:
◾No adult shall hit another adult.
◾No adult shall hit a child.
◾No child shall hit an adult.
◾No child shall hit another child.”
CHILDREN (ESPECIALLY BOYS) WILL ALWAYS QUARREL AND HIT EACH OTHER
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Is this another ploy for social workers to put children into care where bad foster carers, children’s homes carers and workers can throw the kids on the floor, use illegal restraints, use a cane and belt to beat them with and otherwise torment and punish them. All of this far, far worse than a light smack by a birth parent, but those children are removed into care for no crime against the child.
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The UK made any form of physical chastisement of a child unlawful under s.58(2)(c) Children Act 2004. It amounts to physical and psychological abuse under Annex A Working Together to Safeguard Children.
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That’s not quite right. At present, parents are allowed to hit their children if they don’t leave a bruise/ break the skin. Please do search the blog for more on this.
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