What You Can Do to End Physical Punishment of Children See where physical punishment of children is still allowed: Find out more about corporal punishment and child abuse laws. What I Can Do to End Physical Punishment in Schools Facts to arm myself with: stophitting.org/disatschool/statesBanning stophitting.org/disatschool/argumentsAgainst Grass roots strategies: stophitting.com/disatschool/legislativeGrassRoots Sample letter to my school board members and superintendent: Click here for sample school board letter Sample letter to my state legislator: Click here for sample state legislator letter Sample letter to my U.S. congressman: Click here for sample U.S. congressman letter What I can do as a parent stophitting.org/disatschool/parentsCanDo What kids can do stophitting.org/disatschool/kidsPaddling   What I Can Do to End Physical Punishment in Homes Facts to arm myself with: stophitting.org/disathome/FactsAndFiction Why physical punishment of children should be banned stophitting.org/disathome/shouldSpankingBeBanned What can parents do instead of spanking? stophitting.org/disathome/PositiveDiscipline-WhatItIsandHowToDoIt.pdf What can I do and what can others do to end physical punishment of children? stophitting.org/disathome/multiProngedApproach Sample letter to my state legislator or federal legislator about protecting children from physical harm caused by hitting with instruments Click here for the sample letter A sample bill for ending all physical punishment of children (scroll to the end of the link below) stophitting.org/laws/stateLegislation How to find my elected officials: Put your zip code in the upper left corner box on this web page and get contact information for the U.S. president, your U.S. house and senate members, your governor, and your state representative and senator: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/ What Should I Say? How To Be an Effective Advocate Making Legislative Change for Children - Four practical tools (creating a fact sheet, writing a letter, making a phone call, meeting with your legislature) by the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy Advocacy Tools-Tips from Families USA Here are people like you who are making a difference – ordinary people who are becoming heroes who make the world safer and more peaceful for children. Read their stories. We invite you to nominate people who are making a difference in ending corporal punishment of children.   Susan Lawrence Susan Lawrence has been Director of Stop the Rod for 5 years. She has successfully campaigned against two child-beating devices sold in the US. She and her Stop the Rod activists regularly speak out against corporal punishment of children in the US, Canada, and around the world. She has two websites, http://stoptherod.net and http://parentinginjesusfootsteps.org.   Peggy Dean Peggy Dean is a registered nurse and mother of four whose three-year advocacy led to a ban in Union County North Carolina Schools. She assisted a statewide advocacy group in the introduction of a bill to ban corporal punishment in North Carolina Schools. The bill failed. The group plans to re-introduce a ban bill in the next session. She has been interviewed on the CBS Early Show, the New York Times, and the Dr. Phil Show. Her email is: pdean10925@aol.com Jimmy Dunne Jimmy Dunne, a retired junior-high math teacher founded People Opposed to Paddling Students or POPS in Houston ,TX in 1982 and has been working to abolish school paddling since then. He led the effort which put away the paddles in the Houston Ind. School District. He says that school paddling is legalized child abuse. He has written numerous letters and articles in newspapers and has appeared on national TV shows such as the Phil Donahue Show, the Leeza Gibbons Show, the Shirley Show in Toronto and Good Morning America. Jimmy created a No Spanking Zone poster with the Top Ten Reasons Not to Spank Your Child. His website is www.nospankingzone.org