Messages arising from this research could usefully inform the development of a public information
campaign on safe and effective discipline of children. Children’s views on these issues could also
be incorporated into existing parenting programmes that seek to provide support for parents.
Enhancing parents’ awareness of their children’s perspectives on parenting roles, discipline and
punishment may help to curb practices which children deemed to be inappropriate and harmful. On
the other hand, the prevalence of inductive disciplinary practices highlighted in this study suggests
that there is scope for building on existing practices in order to promote an ethos of effective,
constructive and positive disciplining of children.