What does the Convention on the Rights of the Child say about the ways parents discipline their children?

The Convention makes it clear that children and young people should be protected from all forms of mental and physical violence. Thus, spanking, shouting, threatening, or humiliating the child are inappropriate. They also are ineffective in teaching a child how to behave. The Convention does not specify which discipline strategies parents can or should use, but it strongly supports parents providing guidance and direction to their children in non-violent ways which are appropriate to the child's developmental level and take the child's best interests into consideration.