West Virginia Code of State Rules
Agency 78 - Human Services
Title 78 - LEGISLATIVE RULE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES BUREAU FOR SOCIAL SERVICES
Series 78-21 - Out-of-School-Time Child Care Center Licensing Requirements
Section 78-21-11 - Guidance and Discipline
Universal Citation: 78 WV Code of State Rules 78-21-11
Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 38, September 20, 2024
11.1. Positive Guidance.
11.1.a. The program staff
shall use guidance that helps the children understand age-appropriate
behavior.
11.1.b. An
out-of-school-time child care program shall have rules that are fair,
consistent, and relevant to the children's ages.
11.1.c. An out-of-school-time child care
program may use a time-out that lasts no more than one minute for each year of
a child's age and only for the purpose of helping a child regain control.
Time-out must be under adequate supervision.
11.2. Negative Discipline. Program staff shall not use any of the following harmful forms of discipline:
11.2.a. Punishing a child physically
including spanking, hitting, kicking, biting, shaking, popping, swatting,
thumping, pinching, shoving, spitting, forced exercise, or other cruel
treatment;
11.2.b. Punishing or
threatening a child in association with food, sleep, rest, or personal
hygiene;
11.2.c. Putting anything
in or on a child's mouth as punishment;
11.2.d. Confining a child in a closet or
locked room or using physical restraints for confinement;
11.2.e. Using loud, profane, or abusive
language or threats of physical punishment;
11.2.f. Punishing a child psychologically
including public or private humiliation, shaming, and negative remarks about
the child or child's family;
11.2.g. Punishing a child emotionally;
and
11.2.h. Allowing a child to
punish another child or children in care.
11.3. Program staff shall not seek or accept parental permission to use any punishments or acts prohibited in this rule.
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