Parenting for non-violent childhoods: Positive parenting to achieve an end to corporal punishment

Turid Heiberg and Maria Corbett - Council of Baltic Sea States

This guidance report takes as its starting point a discussion of how parenting has evolved in a changing world. It looks at what positive parenting is and provides a brief overview of universal, indicative and selective initiatives. The key principles that guide initiatives to promote positive parenting are introduced. The guidance report concludes with recommendations to guide States in selecting positive parenting initiatives, drawing in particular on the experience of countries in the Baltic Sea Region.