Discipline Policy.

Employee's must follow this discipline procedure at Little Flower:

Discipline will be handled with time out, diverting attention, loss of privileges and separation. Parents will be asked to immediately remove any unruly child or any child who poses a threat to other children. In extreme behavior situations there are three steps that will be taken:

• The child will be separated from the group for a time to calm down.
• The child be separated from the group for a time to calm down and there will be a conference scheduled between the caretakers, head teacher, and the administrator.
• The child will be suspended for one day. If the behavior continues there will be discussion about expulsion.

Staff members will NOT:

• Abuse or neglect
• Use corporal punishment
• Allow other children to discipline
• Physically retrain a child other than protective hug until the child calms down
• Lock a child in a room
• Confine children to a hugh chair or crib
• Humiliate, frighten, or threaten a child
• Use profanities
• Make sarcastic remarks about a child or family
• Punish for not sleeping, eating, or accidents
• Without food, potty time, or quiet time
• Punish the whole group because of one child
• Exclude children from many activities for a long period of time.

Staff members WILL:

• Redirect a younger child
• Ask a child to take a time out and talk about behavior and a better idea for behavior
• Excluse a child from one activity
• Give a child his space along to be quiet in the same room, but away from the other children

 

Please see the Little Flower Learning Center handbook for Policy on Biting, Hitting/Kicking, Offensive Speech/Swearing.