This document outlines guidance strategies for positive discipline including helping children preserve dignity, setting clear limits, teaching replacement behaviors, and giving feedback. It recommends identifying problem ownership, ignoring minor misbehaviors, redirecting young children, and substituting behaviors for older children. The strategies also involve active listening, delivering messages about one's own feelings, teaching conflict resolution, recognizing stress signs, and helping children manage emotions responsibly.

1. Major Positive
Discipline Strategies

2. Guidance Strategies
• Help children save face and
preserve their dignity.
• Set limits well.
• Teach more helpful behaviour.
• Set up practice sessions and give
on the spot guidance.

3. Guidance Strategies
• Give signals or cues for newly
constructed behaviour.
• Change something about a context or
setting.
• Identify problem ownership.
• Give meaningful feedback to children.

4. Guidance Strategies
• Identify mistaken goals and use
encouragement.
• Ignore behaviour (only when it is
appropriate to do so).
• Redirect very young children: Divert and
distract.
• Redirect older children: Use substitution.

5. Guidance Strategies
• Listen actively.
• Deliver I-messages.
• Teach conflict resolution (problem solving).
• Recognize signs of stress, anxiety, or
strong emotion; prevent overstimulation;
teach calming techniques.
• Manage strong emotions responsibly.

6. Guidance Strategies
• Listen actively.
• Deliver I-messages.
• Teach conflict resolution (problem solving).
• Recognize signs of stress, anxiety, or
strong emotion; prevent overstimulation;
teach calming techniques.
• Manage strong emotions responsibly.