Would the members of the Council of Europe have been inspired by Harry Potter and his famous cupboard under the stairs?

The European body wants in any case to put an end to the punishments of the style “file in your room”, at the request of several associations, according to

Figaro

.

The newspaper cites an email exchange in which Regina Jensdottir, head of the children's rights division at the Council of Europe, announces that the "time out", the injunction to leave the room, has become "obsolete" and must be "reworked".

The reason ?

This punishment would constitute ordinary educational violence.

Ordering your child to lock himself in his room, "it's madness", explains the educator Christine Schuhl, who even mentions an "unheard of psychic sanction" in Le

Figaro

.

“We are delighted with this step forward,” trumpeted the Stop VEO association on Facebook.

The end of this punishment goes "in the direction of a better respect for the child and an appeasement of the families", estimates the association, which awaits "suggestions for less violent solutions".

“According to them, all authority is abusive”

But all childhood specialists do not want to ban the injunction.

Psychologist Caroline Goldman recalls in Le Figaro that "no scientific study describes as harmful the fact of sending a child to his room".

She denounces on Instagram "a total horizontality between parents and children, without pole of wisdom", advocated by "parental coaches and other sellers of dreams" in contrast to child psychiatrists, "since according to them, all authority is abusive".



The psychologist prefers to position herself in favor of a “fair, respectful and structuring parental authority”, where the “file in your room” can be useful to calm things down on both sides and decide whether or not to impose a suitable sanction coldly, with explanations.

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