4 AAC 62.435. Behavior guidance

(a) A child care facility shall help a child to develop age appropriate patterns of behavior that foster constructive relationships and increasing ability to deal with everyday life.

(b) A child care facility shall provide for positive reinforcement, redirection, and the setting of realistic expectations and clear and consistent limits.

(c) A child care facility may not use discipline or a behavior management technique that is cruel, humiliating, or otherwise damaging to the child.

(d) A child in care may not be

(1) removed from the other children for more than 10 minutes if the child is a young child, except as provided in (e) of this section;

(2) disciplined in association with food or rest;

(3) punished for bedwetting or actions in regard to toileting or toilet training;

(4) subjected to discipline administered by another child;

(5) repealed 2/8/2002;

(6) subjected to verbal abuse, to derogatory remarks about the child or members of the child's family, or to threats to expel the child from the child care facility;

(7) placed in a locked room;

(8) physically restrained, except when necessary to protect a young child from accident, to protect persons on the premises from physical injury, or to protect property from serious damage; and then only passive physical restraint may be used;

(9) mechanically restrained, except for a protective device such as a seatbelt; or

(10) chemically restrained, except on the order of a physician and subject to the provisions of 4 AAC 62.440.

(e) In a child care facility, when a young child has a pattern of out of control behavior, the child may be removed from other children until the child's behavior has stabilized. In addition, the child care facility shall develop a plan with the child's parent to address the behavior issues.

(f) Corporal punishment may not be used on a child in care.

History: Eff. 1/1/96, Register 136; am 3/1/98, Register 145; am 2/8/2002, Register 161

Authority: AS 14.37.020

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