NAC424.530. Discipline of children: Restrictions.

     1. The following are examples of unacceptable disciplinary techniques. The list is not exclusive. Foster parents shall discuss disciplinary techniques with the child’s social worker before they are used. The foster parent shall not:

     (a) Subject a child to verbal abuse, humiliate the child, threaten the child or make derogatory remarks about the child or his family.

     (b) Threaten to subject or subject a child to pushing, punching, shaking, rough handling, force feeding, biting, hitting of any kind, including with an implement, isolation in a closed space, such as a closet or unlit or unventilated space, or other extreme discipline.

     (c) Threaten a child with the loss of love of any person.

     (d) Threaten a child with punishment by a deity.

     (e) Threaten to deny or deny food, shelter, medication or rest, or threaten to restrict or restrict the use of a toilet or other bathroom fixture as punishment.

     (f) Threaten to subject or subject a child to any form of punishment by other children.

     (g) Threaten to subject or subject a child to excessive time out.

     (h) Threaten to wash or wash a child’s mouth out with soap or detergent or threaten to tape or tape the mouth of a child.

     (i) Threaten to deprive or deprive a child of visits with significant others in the child’s life as a form of punishment when the agency placing the child has identified the visitation as appropriate.

     (j) Threaten to withhold or withhold the allowance of a child provided by the agency which provides child welfare services.

     2. The threat of or use of spanking as a form of discipline is prohibited.

     [Welfare Div., Req. for Foster Care part § 106.5, 10-7-88, eff. 1-1-89]—(NAC A by Div. of Child & Fam. Services, 8-27-92; 11-14-97; R044-02, 7-23-2002)